A multigenerational saga of the Buendía family in the mythical town of Macondo, blending magical realism with the cyclical rise, glory, and eventual ruin of a dynasty and its world.
Books mentioned in One Hundred Years of Solitude (5)
Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso: “the book that could be found between Jerusalem Delivered and Milton's poems on the extreme right-hand side of the second shelf of the bookcases”
The Prophecies (Les Centuries) by Nostradamus: “the keys to the philosopher's stone, the Centuries of Nostradamus and his research concerning the plague”
El puñal del godo (The Dagger of the Goth) by José Zorrilla: “a Spanish company was putting on The Dagger of the Fox, which was really Zorrilla's play with the title changed... because the Liberals called the Conservatives Goths”
The Complete Works of Rabelais by François Rabelais: “left for Paris with two changes of clothing, a pair of shoes, and the complete works of Rabelais”
Books that mention One Hundred Years of Solitude (2)
The White Album by Joan Didion: “The opening line of One Hundred Years of Solitude, by the Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez.”
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose: “The first paragraph of Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude goes on for a page and a half.”