100 års ensomhed (original 1967; edition 2005)

by Gabriel García Márquez

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The rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family.

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Title:	100 års ensomhed
Authors:	Gabriel García Márquez
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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967)

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
García Márquez, Gabriel	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Alin, Karin	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Ascot, Jomi Garcia	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Cicogna, Enrico	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
直, 鼓	翻訳	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
d'Ornellas, Fernando	Cover artist	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Durand, Carmen	Traduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Durand, Claude	Traduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
ʻAlmānī, Ṣāliḥ	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Ferrer, Rafael	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Fleming, Guy	Cover designer	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Fuentes, Carlos	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
García de la Concha, Víctor	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Gheorghiu, Mihnea	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Grudzińska, Grażyna	Tł.	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Guillén, Claudio	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Knudsen, Merete	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Kulin, Katalin	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Kurfeldt, Aita	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Lee, John	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Medek, Vladimír	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Meyer-Clason, Curt	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Mimica-Popović, Jasna	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Mutis, Álvaro	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Packer, Neil	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Phillips, Alan	Illustrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Rabassa, Gregory	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Risvik, Kjell	Overs.	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Romer, Patrick	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Rossi, Matti	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Santiago, Margarida	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Segre, Cesare	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Selvi, Seçkin	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Székács, Vera	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Talvet, Jüri	Afterword	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Toelke, Cathleen	Cover artist	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
van den Broek, C. A. G.	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Vargas Llosa, Mario	Introduction	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Wojciechowska, Kalina	Tł.	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Zagury, Eliane	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Canonical title

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Original title

Cien años de soledad

Alternative titles

100 Years of Solitude

Original publication date

1967

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Macondo, Colombia

Colombia

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Saraba hakobune (1984 | IMDb)

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Epigraph

Dedication

for
Jomí García Ascot
and
María Luisa Elío

First words

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.

Quotations

"[Y]ou'd be good in a war," she said. "Where you put your eye, you put your bullet."

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The rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family.

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Da José Arcadio ad Aureliano, dalla scoperta del ghiaccio alla decifrazione delle pergamene di Melquíades: sette generazioni di Buendía inseguono un destino ineluttabile. Con questo romanzo tumultuoso che usa i toni della favola, sorretto da un linguaggio portentoso e da una prodigiosa fantasia, Gabriel García Márquez ha saputo rifondare la realtà e, attraverso Macondo, creare un vero e proprio paradigma dell'esistenza umana. Un universo di solitudini incrociate, impenetrabili ed eterne, in cui galleggia una moltitudine di eroi. Edizione del cinquantenario (1967-2017).
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Melquiades warns,
a message recieved late,
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