All the glory in life must be repaid with loneliness after all.
Introduction One Hundred Years of Solitude is a novel written by Nobel Prize winner and famous Colombian writer García Márquez in the sixties of the last century. García Márquez is the most influential writer of the twentieth century and one of the most well-known and popular writers in Latin America, in addition to "One Hundred Years of Solitude", his world-renowned masterpieces include "Love in the Time of Cholera" and "The General in the Labyrinth". In general, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is García Márquez's most well-known masterpiece, and it is also a work that gives people strong thinking and super high feelings.
* profoundly shows readers the changing and social realities of Colombia and even Latin America as a whole. The book is full of the unique human, social, historical and cultural changes in Latin America, like a living "encyclopedia", and at the same time, it is also a representative work of magical realist literature, and the spirit and ideas contained in the book are worth savoring. 1. The reason why I first met the book and the author I read this book was because of some chance, and also because the spirit conveyed by the book at that time was similar to the state of mind I wanted to achieve.
I read it by chance, and I can't put it down without thinking about it. As Marquez said in the book, "All the splendor that has ever been in life must be repaid with loneliness." When I saw this sentence, I immediately fell into deep thought, recalled the past, and couldn't help but admire again and again, I really felt the deep power revealed in the author's cold and rational words, which is why I firmly read this obscure, many characters, and complex plots.
When I first read "One Hundred Years of Solitude", I gradually realized that the interpretation of loneliness in the book exists at the small level of the individual as well as the large level of the group. Several generations of a family, each tossing and turning in their own way, they are constantly looking for their own mode of survival, and each character reflects the emotional retrospection of ideals and reality in the story. From time to time, the works are interspersed with humorous and absurd plots and language, which affect and affect us.
Through the reincarnation of seven generations, the story tells us a real state of life contained in the characters, presenting the theme of loneliness in the work, conveying each person's expression of their own fatalistic loneliness. They all want to break through the loneliness, but in the end they can't do anything. Márquez's depiction of dreamlike scenes in the last pages of his work and the emotional catharsis of deciphering the parchment scrolls make people feel tired when tears well, nothing is worth remembering, and life will eventually return to peace.
The plot of the main characters and the plot ** can be summed up as bizarre and confusing. Set in the small town of Magondo, the story tells the story of the Buendia family and the rise and fall of this land for nearly a hundred years. The Buendia family went from decline to prosperity, then prosperity to decline, and for more than a century it went round and round, like a curse, and finally returned to the original point until it disappeared completely.
I was struck by some of the off-the-beaten-path episodes in the book: Ho A. Buendia married her cousin Ursula, and because she was a consanguineous marriage, Sura refused to have a child with a pig's tail because she feared that they** would have a pig-tailed child like her aunt and uncle in the future. Buendia then had a conflict with the neighbor, who laughed at the fact that they didn't dare to **, and finally Buendia killed the neighbor because he couldn't stand the ridicule of the neighbor. Unexpectedly, when their neighbor died, they turned into a ghost and disturbed their family's peace, so they chose to move and settled in the small town of Magondo.
In the beginning, the Buendia family was prosperous and powerful, but later due to the outbreak of civil war and foreign invasions, the Buendia family gradually declined. Even in the generation of Colonel Aureliano Buendia, the family's fortunes came to an end when 32 indigenous uprisings he led ended in failureIn addition, he married his aunt Ursula and gave birth to a baby girl with a tail, which is reminiscent of the code and even the curse that the gypsies wrote in Sanskrit on parchment a hundred years ago, as deciphered by Colonel Aureliano Buendia. The setting of this magical plot makes ** develop in another direction. And the original book also mentions the tragic fate of the baby girl - she was bitten by ants and dragged into the anthill.
Soon after, the entire town was hit by a hurricane and disappeared. As one of the masterpieces of magical realist literature in Latin America and even the whole world, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" stands out among world literature with its complex background and bizarre plot. The work also created a brilliant school of magic realism, full of idealistic brilliance. Many of the bizarre stories told in the book take place in Magondori, an ordinary town in the depths of Latin America: all the uprisings led by Colonel Aureliano ended in failure.
You know, that's a full 32 timesBy the time of the sixth generation of Aureliano Buendia, he did nothing in his old age, weaving the shroud day and night;The second generation of Aureliano was constantly repairing the doors and windows of the houseThe good-looking girl Remay Tess bathes many times a day;In the middle of the town of Magondo, it rained for four years, eleven months and two days, and it did not rain again for ten yearsThe members of the Buendia family are always worried about Melgardes' magnet and are deceived one after another;By the seventh generation of Aureliano, he actually grew a tail at birth, and was bitten by ants and taken away;Without warning, the hurricane struck the small town of Magondo, and the town eventually disappeared into the strong winds......Everything is so absurd that it makes people deeply frightened to read, and it also makes people feel the smallness and unbearable of life.
"One Hundred Years of Solitude" is an extremely rich book, so many people who pursue reading speed will soon find themselves confused with the characters and plot, and they don't know what to do. Classics should be tasteful, good sentences should be pondered slowly, and this book is suitable for close reading, suitable for repeated reading.
Read"One Hundred Years of Solitude".Don't use our current concepts and our own values to understand the characters in the book, but interpret them in combination with the century-old history of Latin America, the life story of the author, and the thoughts of the characters in the book. Bring yourself into it, and when you encounter a plot you don't understand, observe rather than comment directly, such as Amaranta's story, and think about why she hates and why she refuses to propose marriage twice in combination with her character, rather than commenting directly on her. This will help us to understand and deepen our understanding rather than just focusing on the story in the book.
I hope that every friend who has read "One Hundred Years of Solitude" can face up to the loneliness, gain self-inner awakening, and finally lead to a bright road to life, as Márquez said in his autobiography:
"I've been young, down, happy, and I've always had a deep love for life. ”
One Hundred Years of Solitude is a book that we should not miss, and it takes a lot of time and effort to savor it carefully. At the same time, today's article is only a little insight, and it can only play a guiding role in reading and understanding this book.
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