One Hundred Years of Solitude

One of the books that, to me, lives up to the hype, even though I found it to be more bitter than funny. Great literature, nonetheless. Read it in Spanish.

How many of you guys read it? Did you like it?

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I had to read it for a latinamerican lit course. I hated it. It lacked the quality that the other books I had to study had (Pedro Páramo, Ficciones, La Vida Breve, etc.)

I liked it a lot. Best ending in literature, I had genuine goosebumps. I read it in Spanish.

>Best ending in literature
why do people always say this? I found it OK.

I read this on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in the middle of the Amazon jungle on the Peru/Ecuador border with Tarantulas on the screen window and fucking Howler monkeys above so loud could barely concentrate. Saw jaguar tracks but never actually saw one of the fuckers in the flesh...I highly recommend it, though at Christmastime you're going to have kikes everywhere....

well, it just isn't for you. I found the last chapter to be really good.

better than Moby Dick's ending?

I haven't read that one and I'm ashamed to admit it.

I loved it. Sadly I don't know Spanish, so I could only read it translated.

I read some scholarly opinion on the book afterward, which said that it was about Latin American society moving away from colonialism toward a more authentic and free culture. I don't know, but for me, Macondo and the Buendia family degenerated as time went on, so I don't really jive with this anti-colonialist interpretation. Am I wrong here?

i liked it
i know being meandering is the point but i guess i found that boring sometimes
ending is fantastic, one of the best i've seen

The train station scene did occur in real life tho. And I bet most of the things it portrait are at least partially true.

>one hundred years of solitude
>no one is alone.

Well, Marquez was a friend of Fidel Castro, so I don't doubt it may have been his intention. However, I tend to disregard these types of analysis of any books, because there's a lot of projection in them. I take the book as is.

didn't a baby die eaten by ants? I think that guy was kinda alone kek

>no one was alone
the word alone / lonely / loneliness / solitude (in translation) shows up on like every page
how the fuck did you miss it

>>one hundred years of solitude
>>no one is alone.
This is where translations get tricky.

The English "solitude" does not fully express the
Spanish "soledad", which is more than simple lack of company.

Also I think the title refers to interior state of the characters, and in that sense they were all alone in their own neurosis.

I read it. I thought the first 120-150 pages were nothing short of beautiful. But then the book became this incredible slog. I had to force myself to finish it. The last 75 or so pages were great, but by the time I got there, I just wanted the thing to be over, so I cannot say I enjoyed them.

I gave it 3 stars. This book could have used a 200 page diet there around the middle.

Alright Howard Bloom

Wrong. I'm a native Spanish speaker. I can assure you that, the word 'soledad' doesn't have any meta-meaning. Being alone doesn't require the impossibility of material human interaction, but instead, is usually accompanied by it as a symptom

I don't know this this. but I assume I rehashed his thoughts?

>the word 'soledad' doesn't have any meta-meaning

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soledad can refer to both being alone (like Macondo from civilization) and being lonely (like how many of the characters are sentimentally lonely).

wait so you cannot feel alone in english?

Then stop saying nonsense like best ending in all of literature etc.

Kids these days........aaarrrggghhhh

Only if you think you are physically away from others. "Feeling lonely" is more common when you're actually feeling spiritually orr sentimentally lonely.

Yeah. Read it in English, and later saw a cool article by the translator about how Marquez helped her with style choices in her work. His other stuff is also fab