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Cien años de soledad y un homenaje/ One Hundred Years of Solitude and a tribute: Discursos de Gabriel García Márquez y Carlos Fuentes

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En una bella edición y dentro de su colección Centzontle, el FCE recupera los discursos de Gabriel García Márquez y Carlos Fuentes pronunciados en torno a una conmemoración ú los 80 años del Premio Nobel colombiano y los 40 años de la novela Cien años de soledad. Una celebración de la cual el lector puede ser testigo privilegiado a través de este libro. García Márquez recuerda en estas páginas que "ni en el más delirante" de sus sueños imaginó que su novela llegaría a ser leída por casi 50 millones de lectores, un número tal de personas que si vivieran en un solo pedazo de tierra sería uno de los 20 países más poblados del mundo.

44 pages, Hardcover

First published December 19, 2007

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Gabriel García Márquez

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Gabriel José de la Concordia Garcí­a Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garcí­a Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

He studied at the University of Bogotá and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style labeled as magical realism, which uses magical elements and events in order to explain real experiences. Some of his works are set in a fictional village called Macondo, and most of them express the theme of solitude.

Having previously written shorter fiction and screenplays, García Márquez sequestered himself away in his Mexico City home for an extended period of time to complete his novel Cien años de soledad, or One Hundred Years of Solitude, published in 1967. The author drew international acclaim for the work, which ultimately sold tens of millions of copies worldwide. García Márquez is credited with helping introduce an array of readers to magical realism, a genre that combines more conventional storytelling forms with vivid, layers of fantasy.

Another one of his novels, El amor en los tiempos del cólera (1985), or Love in the Time of Cholera, drew a large global audience as well. The work was partially based on his parents' courtship and was adapted into a 2007 film starring Javier Bardem. García Márquez wrote seven novels during his life, with additional titles that include El general en su laberinto (1989), or The General in His Labyrinth, and Del amor y otros demonios (1994), or Of Love and Other Demons.

(Arabic: جابرييل جارسيا ماركيز) (Hebrew: גבריאל גארסיה מרקס) (Ukrainian: Ґабріель Ґарсія Маркес) (Belarussian: Габрыель Гарсія Маркес) (Russian: Габриэль Гарсия Маркес)

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307 reviews24 followers
August 7, 2018
Leí esta novela en mis años de colegiala y como referencia a la explotación en America Latina por parte de las compañías bananeras. La volví a releer y releer varias veces...me daba tanto para imaginar entre las Rebecas, Ursulas y Aurelianos. Agradecí que hasta la fecha no haya sido llevada al cine, no querían que le pusiesen caras a esos mágicos personajes.
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263 reviews6 followers
January 25, 2025
Con l'uscita della serie in Netflix, ho colto la palla al balzo per rileggere questo capolavoro prima di procedere alla visione della trasposizione cinematografica.
Essendo una rilettura (la terza volta per la precisione), ho valutato fortemente se leggerlo in lingua originale (spagnolo) e dopo aver incontrato il libro cartaceo in una bancarella in Chile casualmente, ho pensato fosse un segno del destino. Non nego peró, che seppur avendo una proprietá di linguaggio completa e fluente, mi ha dato non pochi grattacapi e, soprattutto verso la fine, la voglia di proseguire la lettura sul libro tradotto in italiano é stata forte, ma non ho demorso perché ci tenevo proprio tanto finirlo in spagnolo.
Credo che questo viaggio mi abbia permesso di imparare nuovi vocaboli e mi abbia fatto apprezzare ancora di piú la prosa di García Márquez, che rientra nella TOP 5 dei miei scrittori preferiti.
Credo che il riassunto del romanzo possa concentrarsi proprio in un periodo del romanzo:"No había ningún misterio en el corazón de un Buendía, que fuera impenetrable para ella, porque un siglo de naipes y de experiencia le había enseñado que la historia de la familia era un engranaje de repeticiones irreparables, una rueda giratoria que hubiera seguido dando vueltas hasta la eternidad, de no haber sido por el desgaste progresivo e irremediable del eje.", che tradotto:"Non c'era nessun mistero nel cuore di un Buendía, che fosse impenetrabile per le (riferito a Pilar Ternera), perché un secolo di carte da gioco ed esperienza le avevano insegnato che la storia della famiglia era un ingranaggio di ripetizioni irreparabili, una ruota girante che avrebbe girato nell'eternitá, se non fosse stato per il logoramento progressivo ed irrimediabile del perno".
Il realismo magico mi porta sempre su altri pianeti, con la fantasia, con le emozioni e i sentimenti e penso sia uno dei generi che piú mi fa sognare, con le presenze del passato nel presente, con le sue premonizioni, con le sue fantasie e con quel stupore di fiaba che mi lascia un po' malinconica.
Il tema principale, qui, é la solitudine che si puó assaporare dall'inizio alla fine, nonostante i personaggi siano molteplici e intrecciati tra loro da varie tipologie di relazioni (parentele, amorose, incesti, ecc...).
Non ho un personaggio preferito, perché tutti sono sensazionali e descritti in maniera esaustiva, ma vorrei spendere due parole per Ursula Iguarán e Pilar Ternera, le quali hanno vissuto cento e piú anni in completa solitudine, ma stoicamente. Mi sono piaciute queste due figure femminili per la loro tenacitá e "prepotenza" verso il mondo.
5 stelle, perché lo rileggero negli anni sicuramente e altrettanto sicuramente so che non mi stuferá mai.
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724 reviews69 followers
May 26, 2011
I bought this spanish book online, and since I cannot pay much attention to details, I thought this was actually the book One Hundred Years of Solitude but turns out this is only 40 pages long and it's Carlos Fuentes talking about his journey with Garcia Marquez and how he got inspiration to write the book and vice versa.

But yeah, if I was really really really looking forward to read this book, after reading this one, i want it more!
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47 reviews1 follower
September 17, 2023
"...sin saberlo, yo había asistido al nacimiento de Cien años de soledad, ese instante de gracia, de iluminación, de acceso espiritual, en que todas las cosas del mundo se ordenan espiritual e intelectualmente y nos ordenan: «Aquí estoy. Así soy. Ahora escríbeme»." (Carlos Fuentes)

Lindo libro en el que podemos conocer un poco sobre la amistad entre García Márquez y Fuentes en el contexto del nacimiento y creación de Cien años de soledad, además de unas palabras del primero en referencia a la misma obra.

Volumen de escasas páginas, lo cual hizo que le bajase un punto no por su calidad sino por haber quedado con ganas de más.
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104 reviews28 followers
June 2, 2014
To say I loved the book is an understatement. This book is beyond magical. The only problem I had with this book was the translation. I cannot imagine the reason behind this massacre of translation. How somebody can be so cruel and ruin the pleasure of reading Marquez's masterpiece? If your life lacks magic, you will find it between the pages of this book. And for those of you who intend on reading this book in Macedonian, let me just tell you it is better if you decided to learn Spanish than embarking on this 1000 days of torment endeavor in Macedonian.
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133 reviews13 followers
April 20, 2018
¿Quién no ha escuchado al menos una vez en su vida la historia detrás de Cien años de soledad? Un libro que yo misma he criticado pero que, conforme más reflexiono, más creo en su belleza. Nunca está de más saber datos sobre la obra y su autor. 💙
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Author 3 books2 followers
January 29, 2022
Muy bonita edición del Fondo de Cultura Económica, la cual contiene dos discursos que celebran los “cien años de soledad” de García Márquez. Pasando por la narrativa de Fuentes en donde cuenta su amistad con Gabo, este último recuerda las peripecias por las que atravesó cuando escribió su gran novela.
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9 reviews1 follower
January 1, 2025
The Buendías, one of the most important families in Latin American literature. A story that takes place in the hundred years of this family and that each member of each of the seven generations suffers in solitude. That is the premise of the novel, although this time to take advantage of the furore of his series on Netflix and be able to catch up with everything, I decided to listen to the audiobook instead of reading the novel again knowing that I would not give myself enough time to do it before the series.

In fact, I reached a little more than half by the time I saw the series, so if I managed to catch up at least with the first 50 years hahahaha.

I didn't remember the narrative so well, when I read it I was still a new teenager, I wasn't someone who understood this type of book in a complex way.

I have tried to resume the habit of reading, because I have gotten used to listening only to fiction podcasts.

I can't find a way to make this review, because the idea is that you read it and let yourself be immersed in the depths of the town, Macondo. In the Buendía family and that for me generation II and IV were the ones I liked the most, the last generations made me desperate for those decisions.

With this he left the last sentence that culminates the book:

“todo lo escrito en ellos era irrepetible desde siempre y para siempre, porque las estirpes condenadas a cien años de soledad no tenían una segunda oportunidad sobre la tierra.”

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Author 4 books23 followers
April 22, 2015
Por algunos aburrida y para otros elogiada sin embargo Cien años de soledad es uno de los pocos libros latinoamericanos que es reeditado e impreso constantemente. Estos discursos, son sin duda, un prólogo vivencial hacía la impresión de la edición conmemorativa de un libro que al narrar la vida y desventuras de la estirpe Buendía, abrió las puertas de la imaginación tras romper el hielo con el realismo mágico.
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101 reviews1 follower
May 5, 2014
This is, without a doubt, my favourite author.
100 Years of Solitude is a beautiful book that stays in your heart long after you finish it. From the 'time going around in circles', the symbolism of the repetitious yellow, the magical realism.... simply stunning!
Macondo and the Buendia's family is an amazing story I highly recommend as a must-read for everyone.
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257 reviews
May 17, 2018
Es una buena novela, aunque me cuesta interpretar el realismo mágico. Para leerlo u oírlo, en mi caso, es conveniente tener a mano el árbol genealógico de la familia Buendía. Tampoco entiendo la insistencia del autor de llamar a todos los personajes con el mismo nombre, lo que crea mucha confusión en el lector. No volvería a leerlo
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Author 7 books6 followers
July 16, 2018
Bueno, leí esto cuando tenía como 17 años, así que mi interpretación puede no ser la más madura.

No sé como expresarme, la verdad, es una novela compleja, una novela que debes leer en distintos puntos de tu vida. La volveré a leer cuando tenga 35 años y luego, la volveré a leer cuando tenga 60, quizá para ese momento, ya sea capaz de expresarme bien respecto al contenido de este gran libro.
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October 26, 2013
It was great ... I really wanted to reas it again cause of the ending prologue!!!! I loved it... Amd you can learn so much fromvit. It was a book that wasnt chosen by me, instead was for the school assignment,
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Author 6 books7 followers
April 14, 2015
A beautiful book of intelligence and magic and far far too many words. I think a book without a classic plot and through-line is always in danger of stagnating between episodes. This one goes through so many episodes, and some of them are phenomenal, some merely good.
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14 reviews2 followers
August 3, 2010
This book made me think of life in the big scope. How things repeat themsleves how there are some things that are unavoidable I noticed that nothing has to be realistic to make perfect sense.
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August 2, 2010
This is a amazing book, even when the descriptive lenguage is a litle beat confuse. I think that each one of us have experienced any strange situation like people in Macondo.
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October 18, 2012
magnificent , i love this book so much , i read it 3 times . i even did my final project based on the characters and the scenes in it .....
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August 11, 2011
A great story so far...but the mess of all the name similarities is really confusing!
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Author 2 books24 followers
July 8, 2018
imprescindible para cualquier amante de la buena lectura.
45 reviews
January 2, 2019
Una de las mejores notas que se pueden leer sobre la gran obra de GABO
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36 reviews
June 17, 2023
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is an absolute masterpiece of literature. This book is a stunning achievement in storytelling, weaving together the history of a family over several generations with elements of magical realism and social commentary.

One of the most impressive aspects of the book is the sheer scope of its narrative. Marquez creates an entire world with its own history, culture, and mythology, and he populates it with a cast of unforgettable characters. From the patriarch of the Buendía family, José Arcadio Buendía, to his great-great-grandson, Aureliano Buendía, each character is unique and fully realized.

The book's use of magical realism is also masterful. Marquez blends the fantastical elements seamlessly with the story, creating a world that is both recognizable and surreal. This technique adds a layer of depth to the book, allowing it to explore themes of love, death, and the cyclical nature of history in a way that is both poignant and thought-provoking.

Finally, the book's prose is simply beautiful. Marquez's writing is lyrical and evocative, capturing the essence of the characters and their environment in vivid detail. His use of language is both poetic and precise, drawing the reader in and immersing them in the world of the Buendía family.

In short, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a literary masterpiece that deserves its place among the greatest works of fiction of all time. Marquez's storytelling, use of magical realism, and prose combine to create a book that is both timeless and unforgettable. If you haven't read it yet, I highly recommend that you do so as soon as possible.
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Author 2 books2 followers
January 2, 2021
Gabriel takes us to Macondo from the moment it is founded onwards, following the magical and difficult life of the the Colombian Buendía generations and presenting us along the way with multiple elements of Colombia's history e.g. liberals vs conservatives civil wars.
During the 100 years of the story, real life is constantly being challenged by superstitions and in some cases magic events demanding the reader to constantly adapt his/her vision of Gabriel words pushing the boundaries of our imagination.
It is specially beautiful to see how Gabriel tricks the reader in multiple times by showing us small bits of what each character future could look like without turning off the hope of going beyond their birth name destiny.
There are multiple metaphors and symbolisms between the Buendía family and Latin America that "Cien años de soledad" brings, but for someone that did not grow in Latin America and whose knowledge of their history is more limited, there are still a lot of elements that enlarged my knowledge of Colombia, my view of normal Latin America day-to-day life, my imagination and my understanding of the impact of certain social and economical developments like the arrival of the train to Macondo whose impact is way different than the arrival of the subway to a new suburb of an European capital...
Looking forward to visit Colombia, and put real colors to Gabriel's words
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139 reviews2 followers
March 12, 2025
Lo siento, Gabriel García Márquez, pero creo que el realismo mágico no es para mi. Muchas escenas totalmente confusas, que casi me provocan un bloqueo lector y por eso tardé casi 2 meses en terminar este libro.

De los personajes, jamás le voy a perdonar al General Aureliano Buendía y lo que le hizo a la pobre niña, Remedios. A lo que me lleva a otra cosa, los nombres 🙄 que confusión tan grande era tratar de descifrar de quién estaban hablando.

Algunos de los temas que trabaja este libro son: incesto, pedofilia, infidelidades, prostitución, abandono de hijos, asesinatos, entre otros. Así que, si les gustan esos temas, este es su libro. En lo que a mi me concierne, no lo recomiendo.
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16 reviews
June 14, 2023
Estuvo muy bien, al inicio me perdía un poco al ser un audiolibro, pero estuvo espectacular; en retrospectiva, no hubiese sido capaz de leerlo si no fuera por medio del narrador, es un libro denso pero entretenido, me gustó mucho. El árbol genealógico es indispensable, lo tuve como desde la tercera generación y fue magnífico, no da tantos spoilers como se creería... Pensé que sería peor, lo tenía en mi mente como un libro pesado, aburrido y lento. No es para nada aburrido, nos da muchos giros y nos introduce a nuevas vidas todo el tiempo🌻

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September 17, 2020
to be honest, the first time reading this book did not allow me a concise and precise analysis of this incredible book. I am re-reading it now to allow myself a second opinion.
The first time, my focus was on the injustices of a system and the things individuals face on a daily basis. This time around, my focus is more on the anti hero theme of the book. So my review is pending upon conclusion and the reading other reviews.
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36 reviews
March 7, 2021
Una historia larga y complicada. Con muchos detalles que requieren atención de el lector para poder reconocer las causas y efectos, los patrones que reaparecen y quien vive y quien muere. Hay veces alguien muere y aparece por ahí, hablando. porque todo esto es fantasía y magia. Ya al final uno no sabe que es real o mentira. Solo se aclara con el pasar de los años en el libro que cubre 100.
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