One Hundred Years Of Solitude

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until it, towards the end of the book due to heavy rainfall, turns into an uncivilized town again before it´s destroyed in a heavy storm. The cycle of the town starts and ends on the same point just as the development of the family and all actions, they all turn in cycles just as Ùrsula thanks to her old age found out. The way in which the story is written, with magic realism and the story evolving both forwards and sideways is one of the more unusual characteristics when, as a european, reading the book. The story gives the impression of moving sideways as the same incidents are retold from the view of different persons which means that events are put in a different order compared to other novels “Melquíades had not put events in the order of man´s conventional time, but had concentrated a century of daily episodes in such a way that they coexisted in one instant”. Magic realism, another specific South American characteristic, adds to the feeling of the narrator ...

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