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One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through... read more
Summary
The story follows the lineage of the Buendia family, and its offshoots, as well as the town of Macondo, Colombia, more generally.
Cast of Characters/Important People
- Amaranta Ursula: Add a description of this character.
- Úrsula Iguarán: José Arcadio Buendía's wife is the matriarch of the family, as well as the member who lives through the most generations.
- José Arcadio Buendía: The patriarch of the Buendía family, José Arcadio Buendía is strong-willed, immovable by others (both physically and mentally), but has a deep interest in philosophical mysteries.
- José Arcadio: José Arcadio Buendía's firstborn son
- Colonel Aureliano Buendía: José Arcadio Buendía's second son and the first person to be born in Macondo, he was named after an earlier ancestor.
- Remedios Moscote: the youngest daughter of the town's Conservative administrator, Don Apolinar Moscote
- Amaranta: The third child of José Arcadio Buendía
- Rebeca: the orphaned daughter of Ursula Iguaran's second cousins, from Manaure, the capital of La Guajira
- Arcadio: José Arcadio's illegitimate son by Pilar Ternera
- Aureliano José: the son of Colonel Aureliano Buendía, also by Pilar Ternera
- Santa Sofía de la Piedad: a beautiful virgin girl and the daughter of a shopkeeper
- 17 Aurelianos: Colonel Aureliano Buendía's sons
- Remedios the Beauty: Arcadio and Santa Sofía's first child, and she inherits her mother's beauty. It is said she's the most beautiful woman ever seen in Macondo
- José Arcadio Segundo: the twin brother of Aureliano Segundo, the children of Arcadio and Santa Sofía
- Aureliano Segundo: the more boisterous and impulsive
- Fernanda del Carpio: the only major character (except for Rebeca and the First generation) that does not originate in Macondo
- Renata Remedios (Meme): the second child and first daughter of Fernanda and Aureliano Segundo.
- José Arcadio (II): raised by Úrsula, who intends for him to become the Pope.
- Amaranta Úrsula: the third child of Fernanda and Aureliano
- Aureliano Babilonia (Aureliano II): the illegitimate child of Meme.
- Aureliano (III): The child of Aureliano and his aunt, Amaranta Úrsula.
- Melquíades: one of a troop of Gypsies who would visit Macondo every year in March
- Pilar Ternera: a local woman
- Pietro Crespi: a very handsome and polite Italian musician
- Petra Cotes: a dark-skinned woman with gold-brown eyes similar to those of a panther
- Mr. Herbert and Mr. Brown: people
- Mauricio Babilonia: a brutally honest, generous and handsome mechanic for the banana company
- Gastón: an aviator and an adventurer
- Gabriel García Márquez: the great-great-grandson of Colonel Gerineldo Márquez
Memorable Quotes
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“The only difference today between Liberals and Conservatives is that the Liberals go to mass at five o'clock and the Conservatives at eight.”
Colonel Aureliano Buendia -
“The world must be all fucked up when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.”
Catalan bookstore owner in Macondo - Show all quotations from this book (warning: contains spoilers)
First Sentence
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
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