One Hundred Years of Solitude

Seven generations of Buendías in Macondo, from founding to hurricane.

Magical realismFamily sagaSolitudeMemoryHistoryRepetition

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Magic is reported in the same register as the weather; the repeated names are the point — a history that cannot learn is condemned to rhyme.

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