One Hundred Years of Solitude
Autumn of the Patriarch
In One Hundred Years of Solitude I used the insomnia plague as something of a literary trick, since it’s the opposite of the sleeping plague. Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.
Books One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Author
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Gabriel García Márquez
- Year
- 1967
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
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The novel’s Olympian ease and its catholic acceptance of horror and splendor as they arise in this our “paradise of misery” could not have been achieved in the United States, and no European novel would contain its joyous emptiness…
John Updike
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It is not easy to describe the techniques and themes of the book without making it sound absurdly complicated, labored and almost impossible to read. In fact, it is none of these things. Though concocted of quirks, ancient mysteries, family secrets and peculiar contradictions, it makes sense and gives pleasure in dozens of immediate ways.
Robert Kiely
Freedom
The Corrections
The Strings are False
Little Infamies
The House of Mirth
The Buddha of Suburbia