One Hundred Years of Solitude

García Márquez's chronicle of Macondo, where the Buendía family lives a century of wonder, war, and forgetting.

Specifications & Metrics

author

Gabriel García Márquez

type

Magic realist novel

era

Latin American Boom (1967)

language

Spanish

setting

The fictional town of Macondo, Colombia

parts

20 chapters

Relative Scale in Novels

Core Principles & Analysis

• Published in 1967 and translated into dozens of languages within a decade.
• It made magical realism the signature of the Latin American Boom.
• The novel opens with one of the most famous first sentences in world literature.

Sources

• Wikipedia: One Hundred Years of Solitude