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One Hundred Years of Solitude

By Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gregory Rabassa (Translator)

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| Paperback | 9780141184999

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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 histo Continue

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It is too good for me to say anything :)

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Littleferryboats said on Mar 1, 2010 | Add your feedback

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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 hundred 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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Holmes said on Jul 24, 2009 | 1 feedback

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Dunno how to put it...it's just captivating

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fruit said on Apr 14, 2007 | Add your feedback

Marquez has a unique writing style, and it's interesting to see it repeated in "100 Years of Solitude" as well as another one of his books, "Love in the Time of Cholera."
100 Years seemed to have more of a tragicomical twist to it, almost catch22-like, if I had to pin a likeness to it. I really en ... (continue)

Marquez has a unique writing style, and it's interesting to see it repeated in "100 Years of Solitude" as well as another one of his books, "Love in the Time of Cholera."
100 Years seemed to have more of a tragicomical twist to it, almost catch22-like, if I had to pin a likeness to it. I really enjoyed it.

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chequebo said on Feb 4, 2012 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1928- ) 這部史詩式文學名著﹐我在07年尾從二手書店買了回來﹐看了一半﹐擱下一年多﹐上月才又繼續看餘下那一半﹐今天終於看完這部<<百年孤寂>>。擱下來的原因﹐並不是因為不好看﹐只是看的時候比較費神﹐有時候要翻查字典﹐而且故事的範圍既深且廣﹐必須慢慢用心細讀。
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) 以一個家族六代的興衰﹐來描繪南美洲滄桑的歷史。書中除了描寫家族中六代人的快樂與哀愁﹑出生與死亡﹑遺忘與孤寂以外﹐亦寫出了南美洲近數百年來在殖民統治﹑獨裁統治﹑血腥內戰和官商勾結下的種種辛 ... (continue)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1928- ) 這部史詩式文學名著﹐我在07年尾從二手書店買了回來﹐看了一半﹐擱下一年多﹐上月才又繼續看餘下那一半﹐今天終於看完這部<<百年孤寂>>。擱下來的原因﹐並不是因為不好看﹐只是看的時候比較費神﹐有時候要翻查字典﹐而且故事的範圍既深且廣﹐必須慢慢用心細讀。
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) 以一個家族六代的興衰﹐來描繪南美洲滄桑的歷史。書中除了描寫家族中六代人的快樂與哀愁﹑出生與死亡﹑遺忘與孤寂以外﹐亦寫出了南美洲近數百年來在殖民統治﹑獨裁統治﹑血腥內戰和官商勾結下的種種辛酸與悲哀。
為Gabriel Garcia Marquez贏得1982年度諾貝爾文學獎的One Hundred Years of Solitude ﹐被喻為南美洲"魔幻現實主義"的代表作﹐書中有許多超現實的場景﹐令人驚異的事件﹐然而作者之所以運用這種詭異的手法來說故事﹐多少與當時政治環境有關﹐未能直書現實﹐只好寄託於神話之上﹐由此看來﹐又是另一種滄桑。

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Mayc1111 said on Jul 29, 2011 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

Epic. Think of it like genesis. I found it dense at times, and it definitely helps to keep track of character names (who someone's related to, who they're sleeping with, and sometimes both). I recommend it only if you are going to commit to it and read the whole thing. GGM is unlike any other aut ... (continue)

Epic. Think of it like genesis. I found it dense at times, and it definitely helps to keep track of character names (who someone's related to, who they're sleeping with, and sometimes both). I recommend it only if you are going to commit to it and read the whole thing. GGM is unlike any other author I've read, with some fantastic imagery and some really screwed up themes.

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Sarabear135 said on Feb 25, 2010 about the Others edition | Add your feedback