One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude
First edition
AuthorGabriel García Márquez
Original titleCien años de soledad
TranslatorGregory Rabassa
LanguageSpanish
GenreMagic realism
PublisherEditorial Sudamericana,
Publication date
1967
Publication placeArgentina
Published in English
1970
Pages422
OCLC17522865

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish: Cien años de soledad, Latin American Spanish: [sjen ˈaɲos ðe soleˈðað]) is a 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founded the fictitious town of Macondo. The novel is often cited as one of the supreme achievements in world literature.[1][2][3][4] It was recognized as one of the most important works of the Spanish language during the 4th International Conference of the Spanish Language held in Cartagena in March 2007.[5][6]

The magical realist style and thematic substance of One Hundred Years of Solitude established it as an important representative novel of the literary Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s,[7] which was stylistically influenced by Modernism (European and North American) and the Cuban Vanguardia (Avant-Garde) literary movement.

Since it was first published in May 1967 in Buenos Aires by Editorial Sudamericana, One Hundred Years of Solitude has been translated into 46 languages and sold more than 50 million copies.[8][9][10][11] The novel, considered García Márquez's magnum opus, remains widely acclaimed and is recognized as one of the most significant works both in the Hispanic literary canon[12] and in world literature.[1][3]

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  7. ^ "One Hundred Years at Forty" (December 2007) The Walrus, Canada
  8. ^ "Esto es lo que sabemos de la serie de 'Cien Años de Soledad' que producirá Netflix". culturacolectiva.com. 29 September 2020.
  9. ^ "The magician in his labyrinth". The Economist. 2017-09-06. Archived from the original on 2017-09-06. Retrieved 2020-04-16.
  10. ^ Bell-Villada, Gene H. (2002). Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude: A Casebook. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-514455-4.
  11. ^ One Hundred years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez, 2003, Harper Collins: New York, ISBN 0-06-088328-6, post-script section entitled: 'P.S. Insights, Interviews & More' pp. 2–12
  12. ^ "Ediciones conmemorativas | Obras | Real Academia Española".