#aureliano buendía

[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.

[iraixi]

El Coronel Aureliano Buendía permaneció de pie, pensativo, hasta que se cerró la puerta. Entonces volvió a acostarse con los brazos abiertos. Desde el principio de la adolescencia, cuando empezó a ser consciente de sus presagios, pensó que la muerte había de anunciarse con una señal definida, inequívoca, irrevocable, pero le faltaban pocas horas para morir y la señal no llegaba.

100 Años de soledad | Gabriel García Márquez

[ninaemsaopaulo]

Nós, mulheres meio Coronel Aureliano Buendía...

[thesadboy]

The First Buendía and The Final Buendía

[gautierprotectionsquad]

The non english version based on the notes of the other poll (translations are not mine. Apologies for any inaccuracies)

Update: I realize after i made it i put the same Don Quixote quote twice but i cant edit polls so 4 and 9 are the same. oops

update 2: I accidentally put the first line of ch 1 instead of the first line of the prologue for Posthumous Memoirs. the correct quote is "Ao verme que primeiro roeu as frias carnes do meu cadáver dedico como saudosa lembrança estas memórias póstumas".

Translations and sources:

– Iliade by Homer. (“Sing, goddess, of the anger of Achilles, son of Peleus”)

Anna Karenina by Lev Tolstoy ("All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.")

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. ("Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.")

Cervantes from Somewhere in La Mancha by Don Quixote, (“In a place whose name I do not care to remember")

The Aeneid. ("I sing of arms and men")

The Metamorphosis by Kafka ("As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.")

the Inferno by Dante ("When halfway through the journey of our life")

The Stranger by Albert Camus. (Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure”.)

Miguel de Cervantes by Don Quixote (“Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing.”)

the Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis ("to the worm who first gnawed on the cold flesh of my corpse, I dedicate with fond remembrance these Posthumous Memoirs")

[fallauween]

Untitled by •°°••°Aureliano Buendía°••°°•

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."

— Gabriel Garcia Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude, 1967

[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

[nyuudoupee]

Final ref sheet for Aureliano + chibi by @an-existing-bluoolio!!!!! there's more information about her under the cut because my brain keeps exploding about her

Nos iremos de este pueblo, lo más lejos que podamos, y no regresaremos jamás.

Name: Aureliano (Buendía) (아우렐리아노 (부엔디아)) + (アウレリアーノ (ブエンディア)) Age: About 18 Height: 5'8" / 176cm Birthday: Sometime in July Particulars: Unconfrontational, (Un)Assuming, Solitary Color: Fateful Ochre (CF9C36) Affiliation: Limbus Company, Macondo Weapon: Melquíades (Antique Revolver) Literary Source: Cien Años de Soledad (A Hundred Years of Solitude) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez This sinner lacks confidence and assertiveness, and she will often hide behind other sinners and not take charge of situations, and in turn can appear lonely or cold, but interacting with her will benefit you in the long run despite her neutral stances. She is a trained fighter and has a proficiency in firearms, despite her innate dislike of combat. It is best to use positive reinforcement when she is deployed in combat, but make sure to keep a watchful eye, as she is prone to anxiety and immense paranoia that can lead to violence or property damage. In this event, please either restrain her from any organic matter or tranquilize her entirely. This sinner might also track misfortune to your crew, but she will always remain miraculously safe. Whether or not the rest of your team is safe is not dependent on her.

[international-idiote1]

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when he waved at someone who was actually waving at the guy next to him

[newloverofbeauty]

Leonardo Scotti

“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”

The iconic opening line of Gabriel Garcia Márquez's novel  “One Hundred Years of Solitude”

[des-vanecido]

"Quédate y no te arrepentirás nunca", le dijo ella con una mirada que parecía teñida de los misterios del Macondo profundo. La frase flotaba en el aire, suspendida entre realidades, como las mariposas amarillas que danzaban en la tarde.

Él, como el Coronel Aureliano Buendía en su taller de hielo, sintió que el tiempo se había detenido, que el universo conspiraba en ese instante mágico. Sus almas se entrelazaron como las enredaderas que trepan las paredes de la casa de los Buendía.

En ese rincón del mundo, donde las estaciones se mezclaban en un eterno presente, comenzó una historia de amor que desafiaba la lógica, donde los sueños se tejían con las hebras doradas de lo imposible. El realismo mágico se apoderó de sus vidas, y juntos, se aventuraron en un viaje de pasión y enigmas, sin temor a lo desconocido.

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— Dorian-A 🖋️

[bracketsoffear]

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez) "It tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founded the fictitious town of Macondo. Alongside the story of the Buendía family, there are an abundance of vignettes recounting both the everyday and the supernatural occurrences that shape the lives of the inhabitants of Macondo.

To be honest, it could be argued that there's a little of every entity here, from the Slaughter to the Flesh (The baby born with a pig's tail comes to mind…), but the word Solitude isn't in the title for nothing, it is the most dominant theme in the book. Macondo gets founded in the remote jungles of the Colombian rainforest. Isolated from the rest of the world, the Buendías grow to be increasingly solitary and selfish. Throughout the novel it seems as if no character can find true love or escape the destructiveness of their own egocentricity, and even if they find one it will end in tragedy in one way or another.

Many characters end up isolated from the rest of the world and each other in several different ways. There are several examples that I think would fit the Lonely, like Rebeca, who starts as a semi-feral child who's unable to comunicate with her adoptive family because of a language barrier and ends as a bitter old woman who ends her days self-isolating from everything and everyone by choosing to live in seclusion on her mansion after the untimely death of her husband, keeping her family outside at gunpoint when they try to reconnect with her. There's also how the patriach of the family goes insane and is tied to a chestnut tree like a dog until his death. There's Coronel Aureliano Buendía, who shuts himself in his room making gold fish out of coins that he then sells for more coins to make into more gold fish. And just… so many more examples of characters living and dying in sheer loneliness either because of tragic circumstances or by their own choice. And then there's the ending.

"(…)because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.""

Cipher in the Snow (Jean Mizer Todhunter) "It's a short story about a boy who asks to get off the school bus and keels over dead in the snow for no discernible reason; it then follows the teacher who has been asked to write the obituary because apparently he was the kid's favorite teacher despite having practically no idea who he is. He can't find ten people who know the kid well enough to go to the funeral and it's implied that his death was just because of loneliness. The story was later made into a short film in 1973 and, despite the main conflict/emphasis of the film being on the neglect of his parents and teachers, it wound up being used as an anti-bullying PSA for many students because apparently nothing says "be nice to your peers" like "if your parents don't love you enough you might just spontaneously kick the bucket"."

[icarus-suraki]

Book asks: 8, 15, 42, 46, and/or 48

8) What is your favorite opening line? "A screaming comes across the sky" is iconic. The typesetting for "Stately, plump Buck Mulligan..." is iconic (in my edition of Ulysses especially because the S takes up the entire page, as it should). "See the child" is magnificent. But I really think the opening line of 100 Years of Solitude is my favorite:

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

Yeah, I'll play the 100 Years of Solitude drinking game (take a shot every time someone is named Aureliano) but I really love that novel and I really love that opening line.

15) What makes you close a book and walk away forever? Really cringy, weird, awkward phrases. Let me give you an example or two:

I tried, I really tried, to read the first Elric of Melniboné book (Michael Moorcock) but I got to this one line where the main character and his lover ride out to a cave on a beach whereupon "they tethered their steeds." I was just so done at that point. I tried, but I just couldn't do it.

Likewise! I was working at a Barnes & Noble starting around Thanksgiving 2004 (baby's first full-time job after undergrad) and that was the era of Dan Brown and The Da Vinci Code. We sold so many copies of Holy Blood Holy Grail--shit was so cash. So it seemed like it would behoove me, professionally, to read The Da Vinci Code. Once again, I tried. Oh my God, did I try. I even got ahold of a super fun illustrated edition with pictures in the margins like some kind of weird Eyewitness Book but for Paris and Jesus conspiracies. So I started reading and I got into the first chapter and it…wasn't great, but I was going to do my best because it would benefit me professionally. And then I got this one line--this is 20 years ago and I still remember it like it was yesterday--about the male protagonist which described him as having "a thicket of dark brown hair." And I close the book and I never looked back. It was just Too Much.

42) Do you read one book at a time, or several at once? Generally speaking, I'll read one at a time. I might fool around with another book or two, but I usually read one at a time, though not fixedly. I tend to get hooked on one book and not want to read others. It's not a conscious decision.

46) Who is your favorite author? This is tough because it has changed through the years. In high school it was mostly Ray Bradbury, and I like to joke that Fahrenheit 451 got me into college and I wept openly at my library job when he died. But J. D. Salinger started edging in there in high school after my mom gave me her copy of The Catcher in the Rye. By college it was J. D. Salinger, up to and including my senior project, but James Joyce was swiftly encroaching on his territory (a teacher got me to read Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and I was doomed). By college graduation it was definitely James Joyce, and he hung around through a decidedly disastrous trip through Europe until I got back to the States and started reading Haruki Murakami (in translation) and Murakami was moving up in the ranks. And then plucked up the courage to read Gravity's Rainbow (I bought it with my own money from that same B&N) and I think it was a tie between James Joyce and Thomas Pynchon. I finally started reading Cormac McCarthy when I was in graduate school and Blood Meridian made me want to fucking bite things it's so good.

And this isn't getting into all my favorites as a kid (Roald Dahl, Norton Juster, Susan Cooper, among others) nor any of the poets I obsessed over in college lmao.

Right now I'm honestly not sure. I don't know that I have One Favorite Author. There are a lot that I really like. There are a lot that I'll read when they have something new published. I've been reading a lot of Japanese authors in translation. I wish there was more a works-in-translation market here in the states. Anyway, If someone mentions a book that's "really fucked up" or "weird" or "too hard to really read," I will seek that out. I love fucked up books. I love "transgressive literature." And if something wins the Booker Prize, I also will probably love it.

48) What line has stuck with you for years? "The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit."

Happy Bloomsday. This line is from the Ithaca chapter of Ulysses. Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom are outside pissing in Bloom's back garden and they look up and witness the night sky. And that is a pale description of the scene, but you understand.

Like, I'm not into tattoos. But if I were to get a tattoo? It might be this line. (And/or the Doodles Family from Finnegans Wake and/or a Muted Posthorn. My mother would kill me and then disown me lmao.)

[blu-et]

i want to share a quick writing tip for the next time you are staring down a blank page at the beginning of a new story. i brought this up in one of my college writing classes years ago and some people seemed to find it interesting.

my favorite first line of all time comes from the novel one hundred years of solitude: "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."

it's great for so many reasons! who is this colonel? why is he facing a firing squad? just what does it mean to "discover" ice?

so whenever i don't know how to start a story, i borrow marquez's line--not the content, but the structure: [some amount of time] later, as [future event], character x remembered [past event].

i always change it later (and certainly don't recommend ripping off one of the most read novels of all time in the final version of a story), but in the first draft helps me situate myself in the narrative. it forces me to clarify from the very top where i'm going and where it all starts, and how long it's going to take to get from a to b. there should be a little mystery, a little intrigue in my version of the line. if, god forbid, it sounds boring, then i know i haven't figured out the right place to start.

once that (temporary!) first sentence is down, you just have to figure out all the stuff that happens in the middle (you know, like it's easy). but at least the page isn't blank anymore.

[earl-grey-sky]

yes, mr gabriel garcia marquez, I understand the symbolic significance of repeated names in the history of the buendía family, but was it really necessary to have tWENTY TWO CHARACTERS NAMED AURELIANO IN YOUR BOOK????