Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Marquez was born in 1928. He attended law school, and his first story, "The Third Resignation," was published in 1947. He abandoned his legal studies in 1950 and wrote for a liberal newspaper under the name "Septimus." His first novel, Leaf Storm, was published in 1955. In 1960 he moved to New York City to manage a press office, and a year later he left and traveled through Mexico. One Hundred Years of Solitude was published in 1966 and received a number of awards, as well as becoming a best-seller in different countries. The novel first appeared in English in 1970 (Janes ix-xii).

Critics generally agree that there was a significant change in the quality and direction of the Spanish-American novel in the 1940s. The novel before this functioned within the boundaries of the realist tradition. The modern novel arrived in the late 1940s deriving techniques from Proust, Joyce, Dos Passos, W

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gins in the town and lasts for almost five years. This is a cleansing rain that wipes away the world of Macondo and all its corruption and degeneracy so that the town can be reborn with a purity it had long ago lost. However, this is temporary, and the corruption and social problems return in short order. The sixth generation after JosT fulfills the fears the family has had from the beginning, and a child with a pig's tail is born. The term that has been applied to this novel and to other works by Marquez is "magic realism," and in part the use of this term indicates a desire to clarify what the author is doing and to avoid merely calling this "fantastic," as Raymond L. Williams notes when he says that even the most incredible people, events, and other elements in the novel do not really appear as "fantastic": Garcia Marquez prohibits their being fantastic by dealing with them as if they were commonplace. . . The nature of reality and the thematic complexity of One Hundred Years of Solitude have made it a novel often dealt with in terms of "levels of reality." Critics have discussed numerous levels of reality in this novel, the most common being the social, the historical, the mythical, and the psychological (Williams 78).
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