![]() ![]() Yet, although the core of this book is serious, and deals with elements of Colombia’s history such as political violence, rebellion and caudillismo (the leadership of a ‘strongman’), it is also a fun read: fantastical events combine with the banal to create a world that is at once ordinary and extraordinary. This portrayal of Colombia through the ages comes to life as every line is suffused with detail: scents, flavours, textures… And yet it is at the same time unreal and magical: the reader constantly experiences a sense of déjà vu as the names of characters and their fates repeat themselves, creating a seemingly never-ending pattern of the same characters succumbing to the same ends, perhaps a metaphor for the history of Colombia doomed to repeat itself, its people trapped in an endless cycle. ![]() ![]() 100 Years of Solitude follows the story of seven generations of the Buendía family and Macondo, the town founded by the family’s patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía. ![]()
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