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¶ … Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Specifically, it will show how the story juxtaposes real and imagined linear time with circular time. What are the distinct differences between these two worlds (reality and linear time vs. imagination and circular time)? What is learned by placing them together and why does the novel do so? "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is an incredible book that blends together reality, imaginary time, and circular time to create a special and enduring history of a people, their town, and its time.
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE
The novel opens with a flashback, which immediately sets the mood, and announces to the reader that time is going to be an important - even vital part of this novel. The story manages to blend then juxtapose real time, linear time, and circular time in such a way to sometimes confuse the reader, but the outcome is magical and fantastic, and the novel seems real and unreal at the same time. This blending of real and magical is called "magic realism," and Marquez employed it throughout the novel to create the feelings of time and space which flow through the chapters.
In the first few pages, Jose Arcadio Buendia discovers how to time travel and the magical qualities of the novel begin. "When he became an expert in the use and manipulation of his instruments, he conceived a notion of space that allowed him to navigate across unknown seas, to visit uninhabited territories, and to establish relations with splendid beings without having to leave his study" (Marquez 4). The story...
The novel follows several generations of the Buendia family, along with the history of the small village of Macondo, from its founding to its eventual abandonment, which all take place over the course of one hundred years.
Without a doubt, as Marquez follows the characters and the town, he uses the recurring theme that time moves in an ever-turning circle, or in other words, history repeats itself. This is one reason why so many characters in the novel have the same or quite similar names. The one hundred year time span frames the novel, and of course, gives it its' title. The history of the town follows a very real and tangible timeline, and could be compared to the history of many small towns which flourish and then fail. Time in the town may be fantastically unreal, but the framework of time surrounding the town is completely believable, and just another way the author weaves real, linear time with imagination and imagined time.
Many juxtaposed events fill the novel, and help give it its fantastic and mythical feeling. For example, Marques says, "it rained for four years, eleven months, and two days" (Marquez 320). Clearly, this is not possible, but in the fantasy world of this novel, anything is possible, and part of that feeling of fantasy relies totally on the seemingly real time which is embedded in circular and linear time. It cannot rain for four years, but in Macondo, time stands still, the residents…
Bibliography
Bloom, Harold. Gabriel Garcia Marquez. New York: Chelsea House, 1989.
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991.
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