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One Hundred Years of Solitude is perhaps the most important landmark of the so-called 'Boom' in contemporary Latin American fiction. Published in 1967, the novel was an instant success, running to hundreds of editions, winning four international prizes, and being translated into 27 languages. In 1982, its author received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Michael Wood places the novel in the context of modern Colombia's violent history, and helps the reader to explore the rich and complex vision of the world which Garcia Marquez presents in it. Close reference is made to the text itself (in English translation), and there is a guide to further reading.
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Landmarks of world literature Gabriel Garcia Marquez O N E H U N D R E D YEARS OF SOLITUDE Landmarks of world literature General Editor: J. P. Stern Dickens: Bleak House - Graham Storey Homer: The Iliad - Michael Silk Dante: The Divine Comedy - Robin Kirkpatrick Rousseau: Confessions - Peter France Goethe: Faust. Part One - Nicholas Boyle Woolf: The Waves - Eric Warner Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther - Martin Swales Constant: Adolphe - Dennis Wood Balzac: Old Goriot - David Bellos Mann: Buddenbrooks - Hugh Ridley Homer: The Odyssey - Jasper Griffin Tolstoy: Anna Karenina - Anthony Thorlby Conrad: Nostromo - Ian Watt Camus: The Stranger - Patrick McCarthy Murasaki Shikibu: The Tale of Genji - Richard Bo wring Sterne: Tristram Shandy - Wolfgang Iser Shakespeare: Hamlet - Paul A. Cantor Stendhal: The Red and the Black - Stirling Haig Bronte: Wuthering Heights - U. C. Knoepflmacher Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago - Angela Livingstone Proust: Swann's Way - Sheila Stern Pound: The Cantos - George Kearns Beckett: Waiting for Godot - Lawrence Graver Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales- Winthrop Wetherbee Virgil: The Aeneid - K. W. Gransden Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude - Michael Wood Cervantes: Don Quixote - A. J. Close Celine: Journey to the End of the Night - John Sturrock GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ One Hundred Years of Solitude MICHAEL WOOD University of Exeter The right of the University of Cambridge to print and sell all manner of books was granted by Henry VIII in 1534. The University has printed and published continuously since 1584. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge New York Port Chester Melbourne Sydney CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www. Cambridge. org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521328234 © Cambridge University Press 1990 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 1990 Re-issued in this digitally printed version 2008 A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Wood, Michael, 1936Gabriel Garcia Marquez: One hundred years of solitude / Michael Wood. p. cm. - (Landmarks of world literature) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-521-32823-3. - ISBN 0-521-31692-8 (pbk.) 1. Garcia Marquez, Gabriel, 1928- - Criticism and interpretation. 2. Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. 1928- Cien afios de soledad. I. Title. II. Series. PQ8180.17.A73Z96 1990 863-dc20 89-22332 CIP ISBN 978-0-521-32823-4 hardback ISBN 978-0-521-31692-7 paperback Contents Chronology A note on translation and quotations page vii xiii 1 Contexts The Boom Colombia Garcia Mdrquez' early works The claims of mischief 1 1 7 11 14 2 16 Samples of style <