NovelContemporary · 1967Study guide · no full textDemanding

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Magic realism here is not decoration: the fantastic is reported in the same tone as the political massacres, which is the point.

Time Family Memory Fate

Study guide

This work is still in copyright, so there is no full text on the page. What you get instead: the context, the cast, the ideas and the themes — enough to read it well, and to know exactly what to watch for in the first thirty pages.

The cast, in the Character Atlas →Literary devices →Where it sits in time →

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