![]() The book follows seven generations of the Buendias and the rise and fall of Macondo. One Hundred Years of Solitude is both the history of Macondo, a small town in an unnamed region of South America, and the town's founders, the Buendia family. In an effort to make matters less confusing, Marquez has included a family tree at the beginning of the book, and he uses a slight variation on these names for each different character. This can sometimes be confusing to the reader, which is, after all, the point. In his quest to show how history moves in circles, Marquez gives virtually every member of the Buendia family one of the following names: (men) Jose Arcadio, Aureliano (women) Ursula, Amaranta, Remedios. For this reason, there is no single main character in focus, nor does the novel follow a regular timeline. It is his intention to show that history moves not only in cycles but also in circles. ![]() ![]() ![]() The author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, has crucial thematic reasons for the unusual construction of the novel. Author's Note: One Hundred Years of Solitude is not a typical novel in that there is no single plot and no single timeline. ![]()
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