

In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history, myths, growth, and decay of Macondo, one sees all of Latin America.

It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family.

Like Dostoyevsky, Joyce and Cervantes, he had a unique style and perspective of seeing the world that has influenced the entire world,” Ariel Castillo, a professor at the Universidad del Atlántico in Barranquilla and leading expert in García Márquez’s work, told The Guardian.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. “As time passes the importance of his work only grows. The book ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’, which tells the multi-generational story of a family whose patriarch founded a fictitious town, is considered one of the most influential works of Spanish literature.

The Nobel prize-winning author is considered one of the best of the 20th century, with a literary style that combines a realistic narrative with fantasy. No English edition has been announced yet.Īlso Read: Gabriel García Márquez named secret Mexican daughter after Indira Gandhi, UK report claims “Reading it once again almost 10 years after his death we discovered that the text had many and very enjoyable merits and nothing to prevent enjoying the most outstanding of Gabo’s work: his capacity for invention, the poetry of language, the captivating narrative, his understanding of the human being and his affection for his experiences and misadventures, especially in love, possibly the main theme of all his work,” the statement said.Īccording to the Guardian report, We’ll See Each Other in August will have around 150 pages, and contain five separate sections centered around Anna Magdalena. We’ll See Each Other in August was the result of a last effort to continue creating against the wind and tide, his children, Rodrigo and Gonzalo García Barcha, said in a statement. After Márquez died in 2014, it was believed that any unseen work of his would remain private, “as his family was thought to be uncomfortable publishing an unfinished work”, the Guardian report says.īut Friday, Márquez’s children said they wanted to share this piece of unpublished work with the world, after revisiting it nearly 10 years after his death.
