Resumo de One Hundred Years Of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude is a fable like story that chronicles
the founding and death of the mythical, but very real, town of Macondo
through the shadowy history of the chimerical and dreamlike lives of
the Buendia family. Macondo is an isolated town with no contact with
the outside world except for the traveling gypsies who pilgrimage there
once a year. The patriarch of the Buendia family, Jose Arcadio Buendia,
is a robust, inquisitive, and impulsive man whose strength?s and
weaknesses are mirrored throughout the story by the dramatic events of
the town. All of his descendants carry something within themselves of
Jose Arcadio in one extreme or another, whether it is his sobering and
tireless strength or his intense enigmatic focus. Macondo begins to
lose its dreamlike solitariness when it comes into contact with other
towns in its region. Civil wars break out, brining with them death and
violence, which previously had not been experienced in the quiet town
of Macondo. Jose?s tenacious and spirited wife Ursula Iguaran tries
desperately to keep her family together despite its differences and
troubles. It is in Ursula that we see the potential for the family?s
greatness remain alive. But as with the death of the town, Ursula?s
death too, brings about the end of the Buendia family. As the town
dies, the last remaining members of the family turn in on themselves,
isolated and alienated from the outside world and give themselves over
to incestuous love. As the story is brought to a conclusion the
surviving Buendia is found translating ancient prophecies left behind
by the gypsies long ago. In these prophecies we see that all has been
predicted and the town and its inhabitants had been living out a
predestined cycle of life, love, madness, violence, and eventually
death. The crowd of characters and their impact on each other and
the advancement and destruction of their world swirls with magic and
strangeness. Men grow mossy, a supernatural beauty sprouts wings and
ascends into the heavens, luck and lust create fortune and
milk-and-water blindness, and the prevailing incestuous relationships
sweep the story to its salacious and ominous end. Sad, humorous,
imaginative, fantastical, and truthful One Hundred Years of Solitude is
a story of the mundane and the extraordinary and is one of the finest
narrations of the mythos of humankind.

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