#One Hundred Years of Solitude

[feral-ballad]

Erika L. Sánchez, from Lessons on Expulsion: Poems; “Amá”

[Text ID: “In One Hundred Years of Solitude, / Márquez wrote that we are birthed / by our mothers only once, but life obligates / us to give birth / to ourselves over and over.”]

[dailyflicks]

One Hundred Years of Solitude (2024)

[metamorphesque]

― Gabriel García Márquez, "One Hundred Years of Solitude"

[derangedrhythms]

[…] she kept the madness of her heart intact.

Gabriel García Márquez, from ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’, tr. Gregory Rabassa

[persefoniajax]

Do you ever get sad knowing that you'll never know all the languages and so since translators make choices (they have to) and things sometimes don't fully translate you can never experience every book exactly as it was originally intended to be read?

[quotespile]

A person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

[tackypies]

my experience reading one hundred years of solitude by gabriel garcia marquez

[cutiebabie]

“She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst, and only then did she discover how much she missed the whiff of oregano on the porch and the smell of roses at dusk, and even the bestial nature of the parvenus. Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. The need to feel sad was becoming a vice as the years eroded her. She became human in her solitude.”

— Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

[embeccy]

[kalihoffs]

I'm trying to make a book cover for every book I read this year. Here's the first three :)

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[wehavekookies]

Kooks!

Netflix is making a show of One Hundred Years of Solitude!

I know it is one of your favorites books because one day I asked books recommendations and you said you read a couple of times.

Probably gonna read it again as well..

Yesssss, I'm both a bit scared and very excited to see it.

It has always been a book I though of as impossible to adapt to screen, however this opinion was formed in times when perhaps I knew a bit less about cinema, so I'm curious to put it to the test. The trailer looks very promising, I really like the actors they picked for Aureliano.

And yes, I'm planning to reread it as well. I was trapped in a loop (very on topic btw lol) of rereading it every year for thirteen years in my teens and early 20s, but turns out that was already two decades ago lmao, so time for a revisit.

Cheers!

[deadpanwalking]

HAPPENING LEVEL: IT'S

[lowcountry-gothic]

Illustrations for the 50th anniversary edition of Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez’ Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude). Art by Chilean illustrator Luisa Rivera.

[fang-venkas]

Which classics character do u identify with the most? I’ll start; the primeval chaos monster cat with penchant for Vodka and chess

[thunderandsage]

magical realism: starter kit

multigenerational family

third-person omniscient narration

some good-old-fashioned prophetic abilities

incest

a big ass House

multigenerational trauma

background of political turmoil, with a revolution or upheaval in the second or third act that flips the family’s fortune

constant call-forwards

characters containing Multitudes so vast and yet so beautifully synthesized you’ll be forces to reevaluate the way you judge all other narratives

some form of communism/marxism