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One Hundred Years of Solitude Author: [Colombia] Gabriel García Márquez Subtitle: 50th Anniversary Edition
One Hundred Years of Solitude Author: [Colombia] Gabriel García Márquez Subtitle: 50th Anniversary Edition
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Introduction · · · · · ·
One Hundred Years of Solitude is a representative work of magical realism literature, describing the legendary story of seven generations of the Buendía family and the rise and fall of Macondo, a small town on the Caribbean coast, over the past century, reflecting the turbulent history of Latin America over the past century. The work incorporates myths, legends, folk tales, religious allusions and other elements, skillfully blending reality and fantasy to present a magnificent imaginary world, becoming an important classic literary masterpiece of the 20th century. In 1982, Garcia Marquez won the Nobel Prize in Literature, establishing his status as a world-class literary master, largely due to the huge influence of One Hundred Years of Solitude.
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[50th Anniversary Edition! Brand new collection cover; limited edition gift of 1 set of 50th Anniversary exquisite magic postcards]
[Marquez's masterpiece, the only officially authorized Chinese version in the world, without any deletions! Over 6 million copies have been sold in 6 years! ]
The masterpiece of Gabriel García Márquez, a literary giant who created a literary legend and a literary miracle and influenced the direction of world novels! It represents the main peak of "magical realism" literature; it conquered readers, writers, publishers, copyright agents, bookstores, and media all over the world; it is praised as "the greatest Spanish-language work after Don Quixote"; Chinese readers have been waiting for nearly half a century for the hall-level classic "One Hundred Years of Solitude". The only officially authorized Chinese version is translated according to the version specified by Márquez without any additions or deletions! Mainly due to the great influence of "One Hundred Years of Solitude", Márquez won the Nobel Prize in Literature and established his status as a world literary master.
The work cleverly combines realistic scenes and fictional situations, presenting a bizarre imaginary world and reflecting the changing situation of a continent and the vicissitudes of a century. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" integrates mythological stories, biblical allusions, and folk legends, and uses a unique narrative method that disrupts the chronological order, creating a huge magic that has intoxicated readers all over the world. It is hailed as "the first literary masterpiece worthy of reading by all mankind since the Book of Genesis."
Nobel Prize in Literature
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The first feeling I had when I read One Hundred Years of Solitude was "shock". It turns out that novels can be written like this. Then I felt regretful. Why didn't I know that novels can be written like this? For more than 20 years, I have been struggling with Marquez. We both hate and love such writers. We love them because they open up many shackles in our minds, and we hate them because their appeal is too strong. --Mo Yan, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature
I have read One Hundred Years of Solitude three times, and now my child has finished reading it. He read it with me on the train in England, and he read it to me paragraph by paragraph. This is a work of genius. --Yu Hua
I have a very real and respectful feeling towards One Hundred Years of Solitude. Such works will continue to sell, and people from generation to generation will read them. It is a long-selling book, and almost every young literary person at that time had a copy. - Su Tong
One Hundred Years of Solitude is the greatest masterpiece written in any language in the last fifty years. -Salman Rushdie
The only American Bible. —Carlos Fuentes
One Hundred Years of Solitude reaches its climax in the virtual world constructed by Marquez. This novel integrates and transcends all his previous fictions, thus creating an extremely rich dual world. It exhausts the world and exhausts itself at the same time. -Vargas Llosa
Gabriel García Márquez is the greatest writer in any language. --Bill Clinton
He is a powerful writer with a rich imagination. He is in the great tradition of European political fiction, and the result is a historical drama and a personal drama combined in one. —Irving Shaw
Gabriel García Márquez is the only undisputed Nobel Prize winner in literature. ——Han Suyin
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The first literary masterpiece after Genesis that is worth reading by all mankind. ——The New York Times
García Márquez created a world of his own in his novels, a condensed universe in which the chaotic but vivid reality reflects the wealth and poverty of a continent and its people. ——Nobel Prize in Literature Award Speech
About the Author · · · · · ·
García Márquez is a Colombian writer and a representative of magical realism. He was born in 1927 in Aracataca, a coastal town in Magdalena, Colombia. He lived with his grandparents in his childhood. In 1936, he moved to Sucre with his parents. In 1947, he was admitted to the National University of Bogota. In 1948, he entered the newspaper industry. He began to publish literary works in the 1950s. In the early 1960s, he moved to Mexico. In 1967, he published One Hundred Years of Solitude. In 1982, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. His works are considered "the literary benchmark of the 20th century" and have influenced and nourished several generations of Chinese writers.
His major works include the novels "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera", the novellas "The Colonel Whom No One Writes to" and "A Premonition of Murder", the short story collections "The Most Beautiful Drowned Man in the World" and "Tuesday Siesta", the autobiography "Living to Tell", and the non-fiction literary work "The Story of a Shipwreck Survivor".
As a representative work of magical realism literature, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" was brewing for more than ten years. It began to be written in 1965 and was published in 1967. It caused a huge sensation in Latin America and even the world. It was hailed as "a magnificent masterpiece that reproduces the social and historical picture of Latin America" and "a literary masterpiece worthy of reading by all mankind."