The novel, "One Hundred Years of Solitude," deals with the story of the Buendia family. It is the chronicle of a family with, "inescapable repetitions, confusions and progressive decline. The novel covers the time span of a family's rise and fall; from Jose Arcadio Buendia to the death of the last member of the line." The story starts when Colonel Aureliano Buendia recalls the first time, "when ... which has been introduced is, "overshadowed by the fact that he is facing a firing squad." The memory of a character introduces us to Macondo (Vijayaraghavan, 2). Events of several hundred years s...

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In the novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez used the motif of biblical references in order to outline the main theme of solitude in the novel. The characters Jose Arcadio Buendia, Ursula Iguaran, and Melquiades all had been symbolized by some kind of biblical character. These biblical references underline the reasons why it came to the downfall of some characters resembling the downfall of the whole Buendia family ... as character. Ursula Iguaran wanted the best for what she had started and not have it come to a downfall. She was there from the beginning. "Active, smal...

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... by G. Rabassa. New York: Harper & Row, 1979. Big Mama's Funeral. (Los funerales de la Mamá Grande.1962.) (Published with: No One Writes to the Colonel. See above.) One Hundred Years of Solitude. (Cien anos de soledad. 1967.) Transl. by G. Rabassa. New York: Harper & Row, 1970; Pan Books, 1980. Innocent Eréndira, and Other Stories. (La increible y triste historia de ... Singapore Important works: Gabriel Garcí Márquez is regarded as one of Latin America's most formidable writers, and his novels include: Leaf Storm (1955) The Funeral of Big Momma (short stories, 1962) One Hundred Years ...

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