Beginning sometime in the early nineteenth century, the novel's time span covers the family's rise and fall from the foundation of Macondo by the youthful patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, until the death of the last member of the line. It is the history of a family with inescapable repetitions, confusions, and progressive decline. The basic structure of the novel traces the chronicle of the Buendía family over a century. In the words of the Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa: " 100 Hundred Years of Solitude extends and magnifies the world erected by his previous books." Indeed, the novel is a brilliant amalgamation of elements from all of García Márquez' previous stories, including elements from the fiction of other American novelists, biblical parables, and personal experiences known only to the author. From the very beginning, we recognize the same elements - albeit, more elaborate ones - as those of the characters and situations in his shorter fiction. Of all the works by García Márquez, this novel is the most fascinating and the most complex.
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