One Hundred Years of Solitude: The story of Latin America
One of the best-known Latin American novels of the 20th century: One Hundred Years of Solitude by the Nobel Prize-winning author from Colombia, Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez.
Considered to be one of literature’s supreme achievements, One Hundred Years of Solitude by the Colombian novelist Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez is reported to be the most popular work of Spanish-language fiction since Don Quixote in the 17th century. Written in 1967, it tells the story of seven generations of the BuendÃa family, whose patriarch is the founder of a fictional Colombian village called Macondo. But why is it said this novel – which fuses the fantastical and the real – tells the story of Latin America and has given an entire continent its voice?
Joining Bridget Kendall are Ilan Stavans, Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College in Massachusetts, in the United States, and the biographer of Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez; MarÃa del Pilar Blanco, Associate Professor in Spanish American literature at Oxford University, and Parvati Nair, Professor of Hispanic, Cultural and Migration studies at Queen Mary, University of London.
Produced: Anne Khazam
(Photo: Partial view of a mural painting by Oscar Gonzalez and Andrew Pisacane representing passages from One Hundred Years of Solitude at the National Library in Bogota. Credit: Raul Arboleda/AFP via Getty Images)
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