One Hundred Years of Solitude: Reading Magic Realism and Alienation in their different aspects

Abstract

Latin American Nobel laureate novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s groundbreaking novel One Hundred Years of Solitude was published in 1986. The reason for choosing this novel is that it is hugely popular and admired not only in Latin America but in the whole world literature. The novel changes the author's life and draws the world's attention to Latin American literary lessons. In fact, Marquez spent much of his childhood and adolescence in the village of Arakataka. In that village full of poverty, various superstitions he weaves this story of magic and realism. Happiness and sorrow in his daily life is a world surrounded by wonder, a world that is in front of everyone but it does not catch everyone's eye - it flies away in the blink of an eye. The story of Makondo village was later created by accumulating these various experiences. This paper discusses alienation and Postmodern thinking, clubbing it with Magic Realism.

Keywords

• postmodernism
• comparative literature
• magic realism