Each generation names their children after the prior generations, so the same few names get used over and over. The book begins with an illustrated family tree to help the reader know who is who, which in this family, is helpful. The family grows as the world around them does, and as the family becomes more complex, the history of the region does too. On the opening page, the narrator explains that “the world was so recent that many things lacked names” and people had to point to indicate what they meant. One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of seven generations of the Buendia family and is set in a tiny village of only 20 adobe houses. In today’s lesson, we will also learn about a family, but this tale is told through the spectacles of magical realism in Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. Yesterday’s exploration of Things Fall Apart revealed the story of a people and a family shared through parable. Episode #8 of the course Masterpieces of world literature and why they matter by Alisa Miller
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