Macondo
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Macondo is the fictional, magical-realist town created by Gabriel García Márquez, most famously serving as the setting of his novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude."
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
fictional location
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fictional town → literary setting → |
| appearsIn |
Big Mama’s Funeral
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In Evil Hour → Leaf Storm → No One Writes to the Colonel → One Hundred Years of Solitude → The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother → |
| associatedWithTheme |
fate and predestination
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magical intrusion into the ordinary → memory and forgetting → modernization and foreign exploitation → solitude → |
| bestKnownFrom |
One Hundred Years of Solitude
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| climateInFiction |
tropical
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| countryOfOrigin |
Colombia
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| creator |
Gabriel García Márquez
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| economyInFiction |
initially agricultural village
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later dominated by a foreign banana company → |
| fictionalHistoryFeature |
banana company massacre
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civil wars → cyclical time → eventual destruction by a whirlwind → plague of insomnia → rain lasting nearly five years → |
| firstAppearance |
Leaf Storm
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| founderInFiction |
José Arcadio Buendía
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Úrsula Iguarán → |
| genre |
magic realism
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| hasCulturalImpact |
became a symbol of magical realism worldwide
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inspired the term "Macondismo" in literary criticism → name adopted by cultural festivals and institutions → used as a metaphor for Colombia in journalism and politics → |
| hasNarrativeRole |
microcosm of Colombia
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stage for the Buendía family saga → |
| inspiredBy |
Aracataca
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| languageOfSetting |
Spanish
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| literaryMovement |
Latin American Boom
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| locatedInFictionalCountry |
Colombia
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| narrativeChronology |
destroyed after several generations of the Buendía family
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founded in the 19th century in the fiction → |
| notableFamily |
Buendía family
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| religionInFiction |
predominantly Catholic community
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| symbolizes |
Latin American history
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cyclical nature of history → isolation → mythic dimension of everyday life → |
Referenced by (10)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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Aureliano Buendía
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Leaf Storm → |
fictionalUniverse |
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Gabriel García Márquez
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fictionalUniverseCreated |
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Aracataca, Magdalena, Colombia
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inspiredFictionalPlace |
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Leaf Storm
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introducedFictionalLocation |
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Gabriel García Márquez
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notableConcept |
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Leaf Storm
("Macondo cycle")
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partOf |
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Aureliano Buendía
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placeOfBirth |
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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setIn |
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Leaf Storm
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setting |