![]() ![]() ![]() Since the novel is amazingly rich and breaks narrative linearity through flashbacks and flashforwards, the similarities and the obvious connection between reality and fiction is used as a framework for this paper and lead to the question of whether there is a political message in the book, or not. All these events can be found in the book and can be related to Latin American history. the Civil War, the take over of the United Fruit Company of Boston, the massacre of Cienaga etc. ![]() The Buendìa family, who founded the town and lives in it for six generations throughout the novel, mirrors Colombian reality post Spanish imperialism e.g. Although this town is invented by the author, its foundation, its development and its fall show social and political realities we know from Latin America’s past and Colombia’s history in particular. Garcia Marquez’ novel One Hundred Years of Solitude records the rise and fall of a fictional town called Macondo. Gabriel Garcia Márquez’ One Hundred Years of Solitude as critique on Latin Americans? ![]()
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