One Hundred Years of Solitude
20 hrs. 37 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Gabriel García Márquez
Author
Gabriel García Márquez
Narrator
Elena Lebedeva
Narrator
Elena Lebedeva
Description
In the novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” the birth, flourishing, decline, and death of the Buendía family are shown. The story of this family is the story of solitude—somehow manifested in the fate of each of the Buendías. The solitude, the isolation of family members, their inability to understand and be understood by one another acquire in the novel a truly mythological character. Even the history of several generations of the Buendía family takes on the form of a family myth—with its characteristic features: a tendency toward incest and the curse associated with it; the predetermined fate of the heroes.
In the novel, this is embodied in the figure of the gypsy Melquíades, who wrote down the chronicle of the family in Sanskrit—deciphered only a few minutes before the destruction of Macondo and all the Buendías.
At the same time, the novel contains a parody of myth. The means of parody is the writer’s special ironic laughter, expressed through deliberately mythological constructions, the everyday tone of narration that sometimes talks about absurd or openly fantastic events.
Latino American prose’s “myth-making reality,” its “magical realism,” serves in the novel as an essential tool for creating a unique image of America, and at the same time as a parody of itself.
In the novel, this is embodied in the figure of the gypsy Melquíades, who wrote down the chronicle of the family in Sanskrit—deciphered only a few minutes before the destruction of Macondo and all the Buendías.
At the same time, the novel contains a parody of myth. The means of parody is the writer’s special ironic laughter, expressed through deliberately mythological constructions, the everyday tone of narration that sometimes talks about absurd or openly fantastic events.
Latino American prose’s “myth-making reality,” its “magical realism,” serves in the novel as an essential tool for creating a unique image of America, and at the same time as a parody of itself.
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