hundred years of solitude by gabriel garcia marquez

However, One Hundred Years of Solitude was indeed in gestation since the late 1940s, when García Márquez was in his early twenties. According to Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine poet, essayist, and short-story writer, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a book as “profound as the cosmos and capable of endless interpretations” (quoted in Cobo Borda 106).Īs many critics have noted, One Hundred Years of Solitude was written in eighteen months, following a period in which García Márquez suffered from a writer’s block.

Although it is difficult to read because of its literary technique, its appeal is that of a classic, which bridges the worlds of academia and popular culture. When translations of One Hundred Years of Solitude were published, the novel achieved additional acclaim and honors: in 1969, in Italy, the book won the Premio Chianchiano (Chianchiano Award) the same year, in France, it won the Prix du meilleur livre e ́tranger (Award for best Foreign Book) in 1970, in the United States, it was selected as one of the best twelve books of the year by Time magazine. As a result, previous books by Garc ́ıa Ma ́rquez were reprinted in large numbers in the Spanish-speaking world (Vargas Llosa 78). In three and a half years, the book sold almost a half million copies. The novel was an immediate best-seller in Spanish: “not since Madame Bovary has a book been received with the simultaneous popular success and critical acclaim that greeted One Hundred Years of Solitude” (Janes 1991, 13). The cover of the first edition, which was never repeated, depicted the silhouette of a galleon floating amid trees against a blue background, which contrasts with three geometric yellow flowers on the lower part of the cover in the foreground (Cobo Borda 101). Gabriel Garcıa Marquez’s (1927-2014) One Hundred Years of Solitude was first published on May 30, 1967, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Analysis of Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitudeīy NASRULLAH MAMBROL on Septem

Hundred years of solitude by gabriel garcia marquez