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 his ... quot;resistance to modern time regimes," when Pilar Ternara stops counting her age. "Years before, when she had reached one hundred forty-five years of age, she had given up the pernicious cust...

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... developed in Latin American literature: good vs. evil, nature vs. urban progress, and civilization vs. barbarism. These themes are seen in Mario Vargas Llosa's "The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta" and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude." One of the common conflicts that emerged from the "Boom" literature was the age-old battle between good vs. evil. After the Cuban Revolution, Castro gained power and soon was ... , as dark as any jungle. Even the title of Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude," expresses the isolation South America still exists in. In Marquez's view...

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