One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s great masterpiece, is the story of seven generations of the Buendia family and of Macondo, the town they have built, which, though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains in the beginning, turns out to be a microcosm of Columbian life, with its wars and disasters, wonders and miracles, and the secrets of which lie hidden from the outside world, only to be encoded in a book that has found its way into the inner mind of countle readers who, once they proceed withthe chapters, learn to fathom the depth of human soul and reveal the shrouded destiny of the characters under the enlightenment of the author.The book, provocative and even subversive to existent literary schools of thought, by blending political reality with magic realism and fantasy with comic invention, proves to be one of the most daringly original works that have not only redefined but refreshed what makes a literary claic that is powerful enough to go on awakening human mind in the 21st century.
