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Gabriel Garcà ­a Mà ¡rquezs One Hundred Years of Solitude By far, Garcia Marquezs most acclaimed work is Cien Anos de Soledad or One Hundred Years of Solitude. As Regina Janes asserts, his fellow novelists recognized in the novel a brilliant evocation of many of their own concerns: a total novel that treated Latin America socially, historically, politically, mythically, and epically, that was at once accessible and intricate, lifelike and self-consciously, self-referentially fictive. lt;4gt; In it, the totality of Latin American society and history is expressed. Upon first reading, the novel appears to relate a regional history of the town of Macondo and the many generations of Buendias that inhabit it. This local†¦show more content†¦Gabriel Garcia Marquez has dealt with historical themes in several of his fictions, but in One Hundred Years of Solitude, the author makes a statement about history and the importance of historical consciousness. In this paper, the view of history expressed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in One Hundred Yea rs of Solitude will be the focus. Circularity and Repetition History is represented in two different ways in One Hundred Years of Solitude: the way in which the characters experience it, and the method in which it actually develops. The characters are caught between the pressures of past and present, and from their perspective everything is repeating itself cyclically. [They] see the past in general as part of the circular pattern of recurring events and in particular, as filled with negative personal experiences which they do everything possible to repress. lt;6gt; This presentation of time and history as repetitious is obvious to the reader, but she would be deceived to believe it is the way in which history really is progressing. Still, the cyclic structure of the novel is an important part of its historical analysis. In her article entitled Cien Ados de Soledad, Historia y Mito de lo Americano (One Hundred Years of Solitude, History and Myth of the American), Fanny Carrion de Fierro asserts that the symbolic one hundred years of Macondos time are divided into two historic periods which repeat themselves.Show MoreRelatedThe Imagery of Smell in Gabriel Garcia-Marquezs One Hundred Years of Solitude865 Words   |  3 PagesImagery in Gabriel Garcia-Marquezs One Hundred Years of Solitude The magical realism of Gabriel Garcia-Marquezs novels would not be possible without the vivid sensory imagery the author employs to set the scene, the mood, and the symbolism of the story. It is through Garcia-Marquez ability to make his story elements almost tangible that the otherwise fantastical aspects of his plots and characters seem realistic and believable. 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