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Title: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ISBN: 0-06-053104-5 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.54 (399 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: THIS BOOK SHOULD BE REQUIRED READING AT EVERY HIGHSCHOOL!
Comment: I was not forced to read this in higschool; I was not forced to read it in college where I took several literature classes. It's a shame it took me so long to discover such a masterpiece and I wish I could go back to make this novel more influential throughout my ENTIRE life. The magical realism of this novel is unbelievable. It leads to a very exciting epic journey into the livliehood of hundreds of years in generation after generation of a family. The passion of the author seeps through it's every page. I believe it was a descriptive account of the feelings a young boy had growing up in Columbia through all of it's governmental changes; and how it changed his life in such a way to be able to write such a moving work of art. I believe it speaks to all of us, that we can all identify with SOMEOME in the book, and is a portrayal of what we all come to know as a familial circular history. As sad and tragic as it may be sometimes. I can definitley say that this book changed my perspective and thinking in some ways and I only wish I had had the experience earlier.
Rating: 5
Summary: Take A Magic Carpet Ride With This Epic Novel!
Comment: Gabriel Garcia Marquez' "One Hundred Years Of Solitude" is the literary equivalent of a magic carpet ride, your own magic genii come to life, and Shaharazade's 101 tales wrapped into one brilliant, multilayered epic novel. From page one you will voyage with the most remarkably original cast of characters, through worlds of vibrant color, where the sun shines almost always - when not obscured by a four year downpour. You will find yourself laughing out loud when you are not sobbing in sympathy with someone dying of heartbreak. I do not like to label Sr. Garcia Marquez' work "magical realism." There is no label to accurately describe the writing that gifted us with "One Hundred Years Of Solitude." This is a book that defies description. You must read it to experience the fantastically real world of Macondo, and the people who live there. Once you know them, they will be a part of your own world forever. Have you ever looked at a painting, walked into it and become a part of it? When you open this novel at page one, you are beckoned to enter.
Macondo is a mythical South American town, founded, almost by accident, by Jose Arcadio Buendia, and populated primarily by his descendants. This is the story of one hundred years in the life of Macondo and its inhabitants - the story of the town's birth, development and death. Civil war and natural calamities plague this vital place whose populace fights to renew itself and survive. This is a huge narrative fiction that explores the history of a people caught up in the history of a place. And Marquez captures the range of human emotions and the reasons for experiencing them in this generational tale.
There is much that is delightful and comical here. Surprises never cease, whether it be Remedios ascending, or a man whose presence is announced by clouds of butterflies. There is satire, sexuality and bawdiness galore. But there is also a pervading sadness and futility that permeates throughout. Cruelty is a reality in Marquez' world, as are failure, despair and senseless, sudden violence. The plot is filled with passion, poetry, romance, tragedy and the echoes of the history of Colombia and Latin America.
I first read "One Hundred Years Of Solitude" in 1968, while living in Latin America. I have read it 2 or 3 times over the years, always picking up new pieces of wonder that I had previously missed. This is my favorite novel, and I am an avid reader. My favorite fictional character is Melquiades, the gypsy who foretells the future of the township and whose ghost accompanies the reader until there is no more to read. Having read this in Spanish and English, I must laud Gregory Rabassa's extraordinary translation which faithfully brings to life not only Marquez' story, but his lyrical prose. This is one of the 20th Century's best works of fiction. It is a masterpiece not to be missed.
JANA
Rating: 5
Summary: A book is worth your time
Comment: After reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez's masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude, I am entertained and also feel sad by its comic style of tragedy. In the book reveal a history of Buendia family of Macondo, which is founded by Jose Arcodio and destructed by a predicted wind while Aureliano was deciphering the parchment written by a mysterious gipsy, Malquiades. This book did not inspire me the view of creation to destruction of the human race though many book reviews mentioned it before I began reading this novel. What I felt after reading it is human being destine to solitude. No matter young or old, no one can escape from the fate to be alone. Despite of the serious concept of this novel, it indeed a fun-read book, a page-tuner, a time killer, and also a book that you can devote great deal of time to decipher it as if we are members of Buendias who are trying to interpret Malquiades's parchment.
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Title: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ISBN: 0140119906 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edith Grossman ISBN: 1400041341 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: One Hundred Years of Solitude [Cliffs Notes Study] ISBN: 0822009641 Publisher: Cliffs Notes Pub. Date: 01 February, 1984 List Price(USD): $3.50 |
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Title: Collected Stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ISBN: 0060932686 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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Title: The Unbearable Lightness of Being : A Novel by Milan Kundera ISBN: 0060932139 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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