One Hundred Years of Solitude

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literary work magical realism novel novel

One Hundred Years of Solitude is a landmark novel of magical realism that chronicles the multi-generational saga of the Buendía family in the fictional town of Macondo.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	literary work → magical realism novel → novel →
author	Gabriel García Márquez →
awarded	Rómulo Gallegos Prize →
awardReceived	Rómulo Gallegos Prize →
countryOfOrigin	Colombia →
EnglishTranslator	Gregory Rabassa →
firstEnglishPublicationDate	1970 →
firstPublicationDate	1967 →
genre	Latin American literature → family saga → magical realism →
hasAdaptation	radio adaptations → stage adaptations →
hasInfluenced	magical realism genre → world literature →
hasLiteraryForm	novel →
hasPageCountApproximate	400 →
hasSettingCharacteristic	Caribbean region → fictional town →
hasTranslation	English →
languageOfWork	Spanish →
literaryMovement	Latin American Boom →
mainCharacter	Amaranta → Aureliano Babilonia → Aureliano Buendía → Fernanda del Carpio → José Arcadio Buendía → Remedios the Beauty → Úrsula Iguarán →
narrativeForm	prose →
notableFor	integration of myth and history → multi-generational family saga → nonlinear narrative →
originalLanguage	Spanish →
originalTitle	Cien años de soledad →
partOf	Latin American literature canon →
placeOfFirstPublication	Buenos Aires →
plannedAdaptation	television series →
publisher	Editorial Sudamericana →
publisherOfEnglishEdition	Harper & Row →
setIn	Macondo →
theme	colonialism and modernization → cyclical nature of history → family and memory → myth and reality → political violence → solitude →
yearOfAward	1972 →

Referenced by (13)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Amaranta → Aureliano Buendía → Macondo →	appearsIn
Gabriel García Márquez → Latin American Boom →	notableWork
Leaf Storm → Living to Tell the Tale →	relatedWork
Macondo →	bestKnownFrom
Aureliano Buendía ("1967 (One Hundred Years of Solitude)") →	firstPublicationOfWork
Latin American literature →	hasNotableWork
One Hundred Years of Solitude ("Cien años de soledad") →	originalTitle
Gabo →	refersToAuthorOf
Mercedes Barcha ("Cien años de soledad") →	supportedCreativeWork