A novel tracing seven generations of the Buendía family in Macondo, a fictional town modeled on García Márquez's own childhood surroundings in Aracataca, Colombia, folding the ordinary and the fantastical into the same matter-of-fact narrative voice, a defining example of magical realism. Its treatment of repeating names, cyclical family fate and Macondo's own rise and eventual erasure has been read as an allegory of Colombian and, more broadly, Latin American history, from colonization through civil conflict to the disruptive arrival of foreign capital.
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Who translated One Hundred Years of Solitude into English?
Gregory Rabassa translated it in 1970.
The English translation was made by Gregory Rabassa and published in 1970.
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is a 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founded the fictitious town of Macondo.
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish: Cien años de soledad, Latin American Spanish: [sjen ˈaɲos ðe soleˈðað]) is a 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founded the fictitious town of Macondo. The novel is often cited as one of the supreme achievements in world literature.
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Wikidata P166 (award received): Rómulo Gallegos Prize, 1972.
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