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  • 100 years of Macondo, 100 years of Buendia

  • When looking over the Amazon.com reviews for this book, I see that many people love it and more people hate it (usually for its descriptions of incest, intergenerational marriages, and even a brief mention of bestiality). I would be terribly wrong, however, to judge this book based on a sensationali ... Continue

    When looking over the Amazon.com reviews for this book, I see that many people love it and more people hate it (usually for its descriptions of incest, intergenerational marriages, and even a brief mention of bestiality). I would be terribly wrong, however, to judge this book based on a sensationalized account of the sins contained therein. Yes, the Buendia family is deeply troubled, each member acting out his or her internal terrors in a different way. In Macondo, everything beautiful becomes twisted. This is the real tragedy of this sometimes humorous, sometimes troubling novel. Anyone who comes away hating the Buendias was just treading the surface of meaning and missed the underlying madness that haunted the town of Macondo since its founding.

    

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  • 過去是打死了也不相信自己有本事看完這本書的，現在仍然覺得不可思 議。那時竟然就這樣不眠不休地抱著書在床上躺了兩天，一口氣看完了 。不能否認是有點囫圇吞棗的，但看小說的有趣之處，大概不在查字典 。這麼含含糊糊、混混沌沌地沉入書裡的世界，才可以暫時忘卻現實中 的許多煩惱。記得那時的我，的確急於找一個可以逃離現實的機會。

    

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  • It's a very sad novel. Not in the sense that great tragedies happen and melodramas fill up the plot, but that the whole atmosphere lives up to the name of the book - an atmosphere of unbearable solitude. Actually individual tragedies do happen and they happen quite frequently, but they are dealt ... Continue

    It's a very sad novel. Not in the sense that great tragedies happen and melodramas fill up the plot, but that the whole atmosphere lives up to the name of the book - an atmosphere of unbearable solitude. Actually individual tragedies do happen and they happen quite frequently, but they are dealt with in an almost nonchalant way, which makes the tone quite controlled. But that is what makes the book: the tragedies seem so inevitable that one knows they will keep repeating. Is Marquez alluding to the entire human race? Maybe, "because races condemned to one humdred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth." When all humans are killed off for whatever reasons in the future, perhaps there won't be a shred of evidence that we ever existed.

    

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  • This will be one of my favourite books of all time.

    

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  • Read it three times - always feels different but never less than great.

    

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  • 讀到最後兩章彷彿可以聽到小提琴愈來愈急促、愈來愈陰鬱的曲調跟著 每個文字而走，驚心動魄的結局昭然若揭，讓人頭皮發麻、背脊陣陣涼 意。可是最後幾句仍是輕描淡寫，留下讀者不勝唏噓。我的感覺就好像 《一位陌生女子的來信》的作家在最後：「他不由得打了一個寒噤，好 像一個看不見的門忽然開了，一陣冷風吹進他這嚴密的室內來，傳來一 個死亡的通知...像遠處飄來的音樂似的震撼著他的心靈。」

    不可諱言閱讀時需要一點耐心與時間來慢慢消化這本文字密度極高的小 說，但沿路的收穫與滿足感是豐富且無價的；絕對值得一讀。

    

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长篇小说<百年孤独>描写布恩迪亚家族七代人充满神奇色彩的坎坷命运,描绘了哥伦比亚农村小镇马孔多从荒芜的沼泽中兴起、发展、鼎盛到最后被一阵旋风卷走而完全消亡的一百多年的图景,反映了19世纪初到20世纪上半叶哥伦比亚乃至整个拉丁美洲近百年的历史演变和社会现实.馬奎斯的魔幻之筆，創造出一個光怪陸離的布恩迪亞家族，籠罩在南美的殖民地氛圍下，家族六代因權力與情欲的輪迴上演興衰起落，其中偏執而鮮明的人物，促成一幕幕驚奇的情節發展，更添全書的戲劇性。此部作品讓虛構的馬康多鎮栩栩如畫，出版至今銷售超過五百萬冊，在獲得諾貝爾文學獎前就擄獲得無數普羅大眾的心，更影響著全球各地創作者的文學視野，是魔幻寫實文學的經典作品。
　One of the 20th century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career.

　　The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, and tawdry story of the Buendia family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America.

　　Love and lust, war and revolution, riches and poverty, youth and senility -- the variety of life, the endlessness of death, the search for peace and truth -- these universal themes dominate the novel. Whether he is describing an affair of passion or the voracity of capitalism and the corruption of government, Gabriel Garcia Marquez always writes with the simplicity, ease, and purity that are the mark of a master.

　　Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal, and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. Translated into dozens of languages, this stunning work is no less than an accounting of the history of the human race.

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