Books About One Hundred Years of Solitude
By Gene H. Bell-Villada
Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude is arguably the most important novel in twentieth-century Latin American literature. This casebook features ten critical articles on García Márquez's great work. Carefully selected from the most important work on the novel over the past three decades, they include pieces (by scholars?) by Carlos Fuentes, Iris Zavala, James Higgins, Jean Franco, Michael Wood, and Gene H. Bell-Villada. Among the intriguing aspects of the work discussed are its mythic dimension, its "magical" side, its representations of women, its relationship with past chronicles of exploration and discovery, its portrayals of Western power and imperialism, its astounding diffusion throughout the globe and the media, its simple truth-telling, and its fidelity to the tangled history of Latin America. The book incorporates several theoretical approaches—historical, feminist, postcolonial. It also includes the first English translation of Fuentes's renowned, oft-cited, eight page meditation on the work; a general introduction; and a 1982 interview with García Márquez.
Learn more about Gabriel García Márquez's 100 Years of Solitude: A Casebook from Oxford University Press