#amaranta buendía

[laurauniversidadcentral2023]

Condesa Natasha Rostova: las heroínas literarias

[dysfunctional-family-fight]

Round One

Big Mom Family (One Piece) VS the Buendía Family (One Hundred Years of Solitude)

Buendía Family art from Folio Society, by Neil Packer

Big Mom Family

Members: Linlin “Big Mom” Charlotte, Katakuri, Pound, Cracker, Big Mom's 82 other children, and her 43 husbands

Propaganda:

"They are a giant family that is also a pirate group. Everyone is married and born to fulfill Big Mom’s desire to have a family. Basically all of them hate each other." "Big Mom...so first let me note that this woman marries a man for her poliical convenience, gets pregnant, then divorces him as soon as she has his kids. She maintains complete control over the destiny of her children. They will join her pirate crew, they will fight for her, they will marry as she asks, they will grow up to serve her. They won't know their dad, or anything else, and she will even kill them when she doesn't get like a food she asks for, for instance." note: edited for length, full submission here

The Buendía Family

Members: Úrsula, José Arcadio, Colonel Aureliano, Amaranta, Rebeca, Remedios, another Jose Arcadio, Arcadio, 17 Aurelianos, Aureliano José, Aureliano Segundo, José Arcadio Segundo, Fernanda, Remedios the Beauty, Meme, another José Arcadio, another Aureliano, Úrsula Amaranta

Propaganda:

CW: Pedophilia, murder, self-harm, suicide, rape, incest

"Well, the original patriarch José Arcadio bankrupted everyone with his get-rich-quick schemes and went insane, their child Aureliano was obsessed with and married a child, his sister Amaranta considered killing her sister Rebeca over her getting married to the man she was also in love with until Rebeca fell in love with her adopted brother José Arcadio instead, which their mother drove them out for. Then José Arcadio got mysteriously murdered. Amaranta felt so guilty about wanting some delay to the wedding so she wouldn't "have" to kill Rebeca that she refused the man they were in love with when she finally had the chance and drove him to suicide, which she felt so guilty about that she horribly burned her own hands. Then she borderline molested her nephew Aureliano José when he was a child (she never went as far as actual sexual acts but spent a lot of time with them both naked, leading to Aureliano José developing an obsession with her when he grew up). Also José Arcadio (the adopted brother who married Rebeca) had a child at 14, and said child Arcadio unknowingly tried to sleep with his mother Pilar Ternera. Aureliano Segundo, Arcadio's son, married Fernanda and they had a miserable marriage, and when their daughter Meme fell in love she had his lover shot and he got paralyzed, then sent Meme to be a nun where she never spoke again and locked their child Aureliano in a room for his childhood. Aureliano then tried to rape Ursula Amaranta, who was actually his aunt but he didn't know, but she decided she liked him more than her husband and had sex with him willingly, until she died in childbirth and their child got eaten by ants. Yeah it's a weird book." note: edited for length, full submission here

[amor-barato]

A morte não lhe disse quando ela ia morrer nem se a sua hora estava marcada para antes da de Rebeca, mas sim lhe ordenou que começasse a tecer a sua própria mortalha no próximo seis de abril. Autorizou-a a fazê-la tão complicada e primorosa quanto quisesse, mas tão honradamente como fizera a de Rebeca, e lhe avisou que haveria de morrer sem dor nem medo nem amargura, ao anoitecer do dia em que a terminasse. Tentando perder a maior quantidade de tempo possível, Amaranta encomendou as meadas de linho e ela mesma teceu a fazenda. Fê-lo com tanto cuidado que somente este trabalho levou quatro anos. Em seguida, iniciou o bordado. À medida que se aproximava o fim irremediável, ia compreendendo que só um milagre permitiria que prolongasse o trabalho para além da morte de Rebeca; mas a própria concentração lhe proporcionou a calma que lhe faltava para aceitar a idéia de uma frustração. Foi quando entendeu o círculo vicioso dos peixinhos de ouro do Coronel Aureliano Buendía. O mundo se reduziu à superfície de sua pele, e o interior ficou a salvo de qualquer amargura. Doeu nela o fato de não ter tido aquela revelação antes, quando ainda teria sido possível purificar as lembranças e reconstruir o universo debaixo de uma nova luz, e evocar sem estremecer o cheiro de alfazema de Pietro Crespi ao entardecer, e resgatar Rebeca de seu caldo de miséria, não por ódio nem por amor, mas pela compreensão sem limite da solidão.

Gabriel García Márquez  (Cem Anos de Solidão)

[babysaid]

the problem with cien años de soledad becoming a TV series on netflix is that normies will never love amaranta buendía like I love amaranta buendía

[algumaideia]

As I said before the incest plotline talks a lot about the lost of tradition in 100 years of solitude.

Before Macondo, José Arcadio Buendía and Ursula were living with their families, their community. The fear of a baby being born with an animal part was a big thing for their marriage, they saw a relative suffer and die because of how mishandled his pig tail was. Ursula worried a lot throughtout her three pregnancies, she never let this fear die. Even away from her community she carried their traditions.

We can see it clearly with Amaranta who was also aware of what the result of incest was. She heard the stories and warnings of her mom. However, Aureliano José who was only a generation away from her, didn't know any of this, didn't listen to the warnings.

Here we can already see the lost of tradition. Actually while reading the book the whole pig tail from Amarantha felt more like an excuse she gave for not having sex with Aureliano José rather than she actually taking the incest serious, but that is just my impression.

And this is interisting because Macondo stayed isolated for long, so with the traditions strong. But the time pass, the generations pass and they open themselves not a community but to outside things that change and shape Macondo so much it is unrecognizable.

And lastly we have Amaranta Ursula and Aureliano. Not only they didn't know anything about the pig tail, but they show greater disconnect not knowing they are relatives. And if they were aware of the stories of incest they would know what the pig tail meant.

I also believe it is very interisitng how their suggestion to deal with it was what killed José Arcadio Buendía and Ursula's relative.

This disconnection with their community, tradition is also shown by Amaranta Urusla with her interest with European fashion, not the local or Colombian one.

It is very interisting and unique how Garcia mixed tradition with incest.

[thebookbillboard]

One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Genre –

Historical fiction, magical realism, family drama, Spanish classic

What is it about –

Published in Columbia in 1967, “One Hundred Years of Solitude” was written originally in Spanish and later translated to 37 languages. It is considered a masterpiece of literature.

The book is about the Buendia family based in an isolated town, Macondo in Latin America, that is founded by them.

The story spans across a century and takes us through seven generations of Buendias against the backdrop of a changing Macondo from a small town with a handful of settlers to a thriving centre with the arrival of railroad, cinema and immigrants.

The mad ingenuity and pioneering spirit of Jose Arcadio Buendia and the hard working, practical nature of his wife Ursula sow the seeds of the Buendia family, weaving a tale that takes the reader on a roller coaster journey filled with emotions, tragedies, fantasies, wild ambitions, foolish ventures and entrapments.

These people are purely ruled by the heart with no regard for repercussions. They loved, lost, won, lived, married, prospered, starved, interbred and guarded their ambitions and dreams with utmost tenacity and passion.

The rise and fall of the family coincide and mirror the same cycle of Macondo.

Main Characters –

Úrsula Iguarán

José Arcadio Buendía

Remedios Moscote

Fernanda del Carpio 

Aureliano Buendía

Amaranta Buendía 

Amaranta Úrsula Buendía 

José Arcadio Segundo

Aureliano Segundo

Aureliano José

Book Evaluation -

Rarely you will find a family where every member is a unique character, each has his own destiny carved by himself and the present generation being as different from the one preceding it as it is similar.

You come across gypsies with their inventions of flying carpets, false teeth and ice, murders of family members, clandestine and publicised love affairs, maniacal studies in workshops, civil wars and absconding wives and sons...the list goes on making the book a very colourful, imaginative and interesting read. History and fantasy, tragedy and comedy, love and vengeance, births and deaths, all form a part of the everyday lives of the Buendias.

Even though there are so many characters, each character is given ample time to shine and carve a niche for itself in the family as well as in the reader’s mind.

The author has written the multi generation story so effortlessly that even though the names of most of the characters are similar with even similar traits, we easily remember them distinctly.

What intrigued me the most was the title of the book. As the story progresses, it becomes clear that majority of the action happens within the family house, often described as “madhouse” by Ursula, the family matriarch. The Buendias are shown to be selfish, self-centred and oblivious to the world, except one or two of the clan. Each individual has his/her own fancies, ambitions and whims and lives without any regard for the other family members, the town or the world in general. Be it long periods spent in experiments completely ignoring his family by the family patriarch Jose Arcadio or the whimsical elopement with the gypsies by his elder son Jose Arcadio or the undertaking and losing of 32 wars by his younger brother or the innumerable years spent by the family members shut alone in the laboratory, deciphering parchments or conducting metallurgy experiments. Even the fictional town of Macondo remains in solitude for several decades as it is bordered by forests and swamps and is unknown to the outside world.

As the years pass by, we witness multiple births, deaths, weddings, affairs, love stories, financial upheavals, expeditions and business ventures in the family. The town goes through droughts and floods, immigrant settlements, worker strikes and scandals and we see Macondo change from a close-knit community of 20 initial settlers to a bustling, free spirited centre full of immigrants.

There is so much happening in the book at the same time involving so many people, it seems you are watching a reality tv show that is wild, obnoxious, bordering on the thin line between reality and fantasy, shocking, dramatic, tragic, comic, sensitive, and even uplifting at times. Every word, every line, every incident moves the story forward.

In India we call a movie with all the above elements a masala potboiler. I would like to give this book the same name, but of an epic scale.

The writing style awakens a curiosity in the reader to know the fate of every character and ultimately the fate of the family and Macondo.

Your takeaway? As in the case of every masala Hindi movie made – entertainment, entertainment, entertainment.

Favourite Lines –

I couldn’t find any striking or noteworthy line to remember from any character. The book is to be devoured as a whole. But a line by Ursula s worth mentioning here, “Life comes a full circle.”

App Mention –

I listened to the story on the Storytel app in the voice of Peter Silverleaf. His voice complements the emotion and drama in the story and makes it all the more interesting to listen.

Recommendation –

DO READ the book to lose yourself in a magical and mystical world created by the author and filled with wonderful, mad, crazy, lively and passionate characters. This piece of stunning literature will cause the lines of reality and magic to blur for you and carry you along on a journey as enthralling as the citizens of the town of Macondo experienced on the flying carpets of gypsies.

I haven’t placed the book in the MUST READ category simply because I felt this book is not everyone’s cup of tea.

MUST READ/DO READ/CAN BE READ/CAN BE SKIPPED

Rating – 4/5

Ambience – 4

Language – 4

Characterization – 4

Plot – 4

Pace – 4

Entertaining – 4.5

[eileenleahy]

toxic evil horrible sister relationships have been everything to me. no one is doing it like rebeca and amaranta buendía. or mary and edith crawley. top tier

[peter1001r]

Aqueles cem anos de solidão eram irrepetíveis.

Quero agradecer o presente e a indicação da Cecília, que foi minha professora de cursinho, e uma inspiração, que influenciou muito na minha visão de literatura e também me ajudou a me abrir mais às leituras. Além do podcast 30 Minutos que sempre ouvia a recomendação das obras do Gabo.

Foi uma experiência fascinante e enriquecedora ler Cem Anos de Solidão agora. Como disse a um amigo, deve ser engraçado (ou desafiador) parar para fazer uma árvore genealógica com todos os membros da Família Buendía. Todos os Aurelianos, José Arcádio, Remédios, Úrsula, Amaranta. O livro tem um ritmo que mescla fatos do futuro e depois parte a explicá-los numa "cronologia mais natural". E assim, achei uma leitura que exige mais do leitor ainda que dê muito, na mesma medida, em retorno. Com certeza indico esse livro, como também o considero como um livro que valerá muito a pena retornar mais de uma vez.

[rossemboss]

"Death did not tell her when she was going to die or whether her hour was assigned before that of Rebecca, but ordered her to begin sewing her own shroud on the next sixth of April. She was authorized to make it as complicated and as fine as she wanted, but just as honestly executed as Rebeca's, and she was told that she would die without pain, fear, or bitterness at dusk on the day that she finished it. Trying to waste the most time possible, Amaranta ordered some rough flax and spun the thread herself. She did it so carefully that the work alone took four years. Then she started the sewing. As she got closer to the unavoidable end she began to understand that only a miracle would allow her to prolong the work past Rebeca's death, but the very concentration gave her the calmness that she needed to accept the idea of frustration. It was then that she understood the vicious cycle of Colonel Aureliano Buendías little gold fishes. The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness. It pained her not to have had that revelation many years before when it had still been possible to purify memories and reconstruct the universe under a new light and evoke without trembling Pietro Crespi's smell of lavender at dusk and rescue Rebeca from her slough of misery, not out of hatred or out of love but because of the measureless understanding of solitude. The hatred that she noticed one night in Meme's words did not upset her because it was directed at her, but she felt the repetition of another adolescence that seemed as clean as hers must have seemed at that, however, was already tainted with rancor."

- Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

[cartasdecienanos]

Introducción

Gabriel García Marquez’ “One Hundred Years of Solitude” is a novel that centers on the fictional village of Macondo, the lives of its founders José Arcadio Buendía and Ursula Iguaran and their descendants. Through the use of magical realism, we follow the family’s triumphs and losses parallel to the boom and bust of Macondo which also mirrors the development of Colombia. Major themes in this esteemed work include family, memory, the cyclical nature of time and solitude.

          For my final project, I will create a series of letters that analyze the novel and juxtapose it to the experiences of our field work in Santa Marta, Colombia. I was inspired by the notion that many of our experiences in the trip mirrored those of the novel. Of course this was to be expected as this is a geopoetics course and as such our itinerary contained plans to discover sites that Marquez used as inspiration for the novel, however there were some events that weren’t planned with this in mind and the frequency with which they happened sometimes felt uncanny. Ursula's discovery of events repeating themselves very much rang true with this realization. Marquez writes, "Just like Aureliano," Ursula exclaimed. "It's as if the world were repeating itself." (298)

          Therefore, these letters will further draw on the novel’s events, focusing particularly on the themes of memory and solitude. To do this, I will reflect on my personal experiences and write only as I remember the events, without asking my coursemates for their input or help even if I were to forget something integral. Memory serves an important role in the novel. Firstly, because Marquez writes in a nostalgic tone. The novel is also simultaneously linear and non-linear. It’s linear in the sense that it follows the consecutive generations of the Buendía family, yet not as time is almost cyclical with the Buendías repeating actions, traits and even names of the predecessors. For example, even though the family was discouraged from incest because it would create an inhuman child many of its members still went ahead committing the act disregarding the consequences. Also, by the end of the novel, no one remembers integral parts of Macondo’s history such as the massacre and the Buendía family. Marquez writes, “The link was born on the night when he casually mentioned Colonel Aureliano Buendía and Gabriel was the only one who did not think he was making fun of somebody…Those fickle tricks of memory were even more critical when the killing of workers were brought up…So that Aureliano and Gabriel were linked by a kind of complicity based on real facts that no one believed in, and which had affected their lives to the point that both of them found themselves off course in the tide of a world that had ended and of which only the nostalgia remained.”  (390)

Furthermore, letters and writings are also referenced throughout the novel. For example, Melquiades’ manuscripts that detail the complete Buendía history, Colonel Aureliano Buendía’s poetry of Remedios, Amaranta’s unsent letters to Pietro Crespi and Fernanda’s letters to the invisible doctors. Moreover, when the insomnia plague befalls the village and the citizens suffer from memory loss, there’s the idea to label items with their names and functions. In a similar way, I will include photos that ‘label’ or capture the essence of the moment and ‘describe’ how the feelings they inspired and how they relate to the novel. I intentionally shot some of the photos with a disposable camera to give it a grainy look and evoke nostalgia. These photos will be mixed with pictures taken from my phone to further play with the idea of an unsolid memory, with some things being better remembered than others. 

Finally, the letters will not be addressed to anyone in particular but will total seven, representing the number of days spent in Santa Marta on excursion and also the seven generations of the Buendía family. After reading the first two letters the reading order becomes inconsequential. The first two letters detail literary elements discussed in class that will be referenced in each consecutive letter to further analyze the novel and reflect on our trip. Moreover, the letters will be written in a mixture of English and Spanish not only because the sources referenced are in either language but to also create the cryptic effect of Melquiades’ writings which were written in a foreign language and unable to be deciphered by the family until the very end.

[desyartis]

Cent'anni di solitudine - Gabriel García Márquez Cent'anni di solitudine è la storia delle sette generazioni della famiglia Buendía nell'immaginaria cittadina di Macondo, nella Colombia caraibica. «Ha chiesto che città fosse, e gli hanno risposto con un nome che non aveva mai sentito, che non aveva alcun significato, ma che aveva una risonanza soprannaturale nel sogno: Macondo.» «Il Colonnello Aureliano Buendia comprese a malapena che il segreto di una buona vecchiaia non è altro che un patto onesto con la solitudine.» «Lo zingaro veniva deciso a restare nel villaggio. Era stato nella morte, effettivamente, ma era tornato perché non aveva potuto sopportare la solitudine.» «Non si muore quando si deve, ma quando si può.» «In quella Macondo dimenticata perfino dagli uccelli, dove la polvere e il caldo si erano fatti così tenaci che si faceva fatica a respirare, reclusi dalla solitudine e dall'amore e dalla solitudine dell'amore in una casa dove era quasi impossibile dormire per il baccano delle formiche rosse, Aureliano e Amaranta Ursula erano gli unici esseri felici, e i più felici sulla terra.» «Aureliano non poté muoversi. Non perché lo avesse paralizzato lo stupore, ma perché in quell'istante prodigioso gli si rivelarono le chiavi definitive di Melquiades, e vide l'epigrafe delle pergamene perfettamente ordinata nel tempo e nello spazio degli uomini: "Il primo della stirpe è legato ad un albero e l'ultimo se lo stanno mangiando le formiche."» «Allora saltò oltre per precorrere le predizioni e appurare la data e le circostanze della sua morte. Tuttavia, prima di arrivare al verso finale, aveva già compreso che non sarebbe mai più uscito da quella stanza, perché era previsto che la città degli specchi (o degli specchietti) sarebbe stata spianata dal vento e bandita dalla memoria degli uomini nell'istante in cui Aureliano Babilonia avesse terminato di decifrare le pergamene, e che tutto quello che vi era scritto era irripetibile da sempre e per sempre, perché le stirpi condannate a cent'anni di solitudine non avevano una seconda opportunità sulla terra.» #centannidisolitudine #gabrielgarciamarquez #romanzi #sagafamiliare #bookstagram #libridaleggere (presso Ceccano, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmcBRTKNb0j/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[dysfunctional-family-fight]

Propaganda for the Buendía Family

CW: Pedophilia, murder, self-harm, suicide, rape, incest

"Well let's see, the original patriarch José Arcadio bankrupted everyone with his weird scientific get-rich-quick schemes and eventually went so insane he had to be tied to a tree, their child Aureliano was obsessed with and married a child, his sister Amaranta seriously considered killing her sister Rebeca (an orphan who had a tendency to eat dirt to cope with her trauma) over her getting married to the man she was also in love with until Rebeca fell in love with her adopted brother José Arcadio instead, which she thought was ok because he left the family before she was born so they had never actually met but their mother drove them out for. Then José Arcadio got mysteriously murdered and Rebeca lived alone in her house after that to the point no one was sure she was alive. while Amaranta felt so guilty about wanting some delay to the wedding so she wouldn't "have" to kill Rebeca only for Remedios (said child who got married) to die instead delaying it, that she refused the man they were in love with when she finally had the chance and drove him to suicide, for which she felt so guilty about that she horribly burned her own hands. Then she borderline molested her nephew Aureliano José when he was a child (she never went as far as actual sexual acts because she knew it was wrong but still was attracted to him and spent a lot of time with them both naked, leading to Aureliano José developing an obsession with her when he grew up). Also José Arcadio (the adopted brother who married Rebeca) had a child at 14, which is why he ran away and never met Rebeca in the first place, and said child Arcadio unknowingly tried to sleep with his mother Pilar Ternera, who spent half her money to send someone else to meet with him instead in secret. Arcadio also became a murderous tyrant over the town they lived in and Úrsula, his adopted mother/grandmother, whipped him and chased him out for it. Aureliano Segundo, Arcadio's son, married Fernanda and they had a miserable marriage because Fernanda's gaudy lifestyle clashes with the family and she feels alone and isolated, she goes on a pages long run-on-sentence rant about it at one point, and when their daughter Meme fell in love she had his lover shot and he got paralyzed, then sent Meme to be a nun where she never spoke again and locked their child Aureliano in a room for his childhood. Aureliano then tried to rape Ursula Amaranta, who was actually his aunt but he didn't know, but she decided she liked him more than her husband and had sex everywhere in random places in the house with him willingly, until she died in childbirth and their child got eaten by ants and then the whole town got blown away by wind. Also they are doing all sorts of messed-up stuff or traumatizing unrelated to family members, colonel Aureliano led a whole revolution but ended up devolving into killing people cynically and not believing there was any political point and it was all about pride, and then quitting altogether after failing an attempt to kill himself, José Arcadio (Rebeca's husband) stole his neighbors' land, José Arcadio Segundo is traumatized by leading a strike and watching everyone get shot, then being mistaken for dead and put in a train full of corpses, and they have officially rewritten the history so no one believes him it ever happened. Yeah it's a weird book."

[petiteblasee]

“E que tudo o que estava escrito neles era irrepetível desde sempre e por todo o sempre, porque as estirpes condenadas a cem anos de solidão não tinham uma segunda oportunidade sobre a terra.”

*:･ﾟ✧ Cem Anos de Solidão - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

[novogalaico]

De un modo que ni usted ni yo podremos entender, él era un santo.

[criswisstuff]

And why does Amaranta not want him?????

Man Pietro killed himself :(((((((((

He just wanted to be happy!!!

[count-di-luna]

sometimes I remember Amaranta, a being of pure salt and sarcasm

her one-liners were ON POINT 

she was awesome