![]() The Nobel Prize is awarded for an entire life’s work, but Márquez need not have written anything else to merit his inclusion as a laureate. With its release in 1967, One Hundred Years of Solitude defined Márquez as a writer, Colombia as a country South America as a continent and Magical Realism as a movement. And it makes the commonplace fantastical: who ever imagined discovering ice. It alludes to the revolutions and counter-revolutions which litter South America’s history. ![]() The sentence is cyclical, containing both the beginning and the end of the story as well as a hint of what happens in between. The first line of One Hundred Years of Solitude encapsulates not only a book, but also a nation, a continent and a literary movement. 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. ![]() Three questions arising from One Hundred Years of Solitude ![]()
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