Buendía family

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The Buendía family is the central multigenerational lineage whose fantastical and tragic history is chronicled in Gabriel García Márquez’s novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude."

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional family
literary character group
appearsIn One Hundred Years of Solitude NERFINISHED
centralTo plot of One Hundred Years of Solitude
createdBy Gabriel García Márquez NERFINISHED
firstPublicationContext 1967 novel One Hundred Years of Solitude NERFINISHED
foundingMembers José Arcadio Buendía NERFINISHED
Úrsula Iguarán NERFINISHED
genreContext magic realism
hasMember Amaranta Buendía NERFINISHED
Amaranta Úrsula NERFINISHED
Arcadio NERFINISHED
Aureliano Babilonia NERFINISHED
Aureliano Buendía NERFINISHED
Aureliano José NERFINISHED
Aureliano Segundo NERFINISHED
Fernanda del Carpio NERFINISHED
Gaston (husband of Amaranta Úrsula) NERFINISHED
José Arcadio (grandson of Úrsula) NERFINISHED
José Arcadio (son of José Arcadio Buendía) NERFINISHED
José Arcadio Buendía NERFINISHED
José Arcadio Segundo NERFINISHED
Pietro Crespi (by engagement and association)
Remedios Moscote NERFINISHED
Remedios the Beauty NERFINISHED
Renata Remedios (Meme) NERFINISHED
Santa Sofía de la Piedad NERFINISHED
Úrsula Iguarán NERFINISHED
languageOfFictionalContext Spanish
linkedToCharacter Melquíades NERFINISHED
linkedToEvent arrival of the banana company
civil wars in Macondo
destruction of Macondo NERFINISHED
founding of Macondo
massacre of striking workers
linkedToMotif prophetic manuscripts of Melquíades
narrativeFunction to depict cyclical history
to explore solitude
to illustrate the blending of myth and reality
nationalContext Colombia NERFINISHED
notableMember Colonel Aureliano Buendía NERFINISHED
originatesFrom Macondo NERFINISHED
residesIn Macondo NERFINISHED
structuralRole multigenerational saga
themeAssociated cyclical time
fate and predestination
incest
memory and forgetfulness
political violence
rise and fall of a lineage
solitude
timeSpanInFiction about one hundred years

Referenced by (3)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Aureliano Buendía ("Buendía")
familyName
Aureliano Buendía
memberOf
Macondo
notableFamily

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