Friday, September 17, 2010

Martha's Review



One Hundred Years of Solitude
1 Full title: One Hundred years of Solitude
2 Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3 Type of work: Novel
4 Genre: Magical realism
Time and place written 1965-1967 Mexico City
Date of first publication 1967
Publisher Editorial Sudamericanos, SA
Narrator Omniscient and anonymous, but primarily concerned with what the Buedias are doing and how they are feeling.
Theme
Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in literary work.
The subjectivity of Experienced Reality.
Although the realism and magic that one hundred yeas of solitude includes seen at first to be apposite, they are, in fast, perfectly reconcilable. Both are necessary in order to convey Marquez’s particular conception of the word, Marquez’s novel reflects reality not as it is experienced by one observer, but as it is individually experienced by those with different backgrounds. These multiple perspectives are especially appropriate to the unique reality of Latin America cough between modernity and pre-industrialization; torn by civil war, and ravaged by imperialism where the experiences of people vary much more that they might in a more homogenous society. Magical realism conveys a reality that incorporates the magic that superstition and religion infuse into the word.

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