One Hundred Years of Solitude: Links and Helpful Information

I’ve been feeling a little guilty lately. I have professed my love for Gabriel Garcia Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude so much that several of my students have chosen it for an independent reading assignment. A long and clever tale that chronicles one hundred years in the lives of Jose and Ursula Buendia, the book seems to have baffled some of my students.

So I’ve spent some time surfing the ‘net and finding some links that I think may offer some of my students --- and others --- a few ideas for deconstructing the text through sociocultural analysis. I hope these help! Happy reading….

CF

The first link is a 1999 profile of the author from The New Yorker magazine. It describes his relationship with his family members, inspirations from his youth that fostered his love of writing, and his complex relationship with Latin America and its politics.

http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/gabo_power.html

This second link is the speech Gabriel Garcia Marquez made as he accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982: “The Solitude of Latin America.”
http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/gabo_nobel.html

The third link is a New York Times interview with Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/06/15/reviews/marquez-talk.html

The next link is the Wikipedia entry for One Hundred Years of Solitude.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude

The subsequent link is a compilation of motifs, themes, and symbols for One Hundred Years of Solitude on the Spark Notes website.
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/solitude/themes.html

The following is a link to a series of reading group guide questions to One Hundred Years of Solitude.
http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides_O/one_hundred_years_of_solit1.asp

The following New York Times book review from 1970 was published soon after One Hundred Years of Solitude’s release.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/06/15/reviews/marque-solitude.html

The next link is to an instructor’s notes regarding the text, written for students to consider as they attempt to deconstruct themes of One Hundred Years of Solitude as well as to write using magical realism.
http://www.hotchkiss.k12.co.us/HHS/nobelnov/marquez.htm

The following Amazon.com.ca website listing for One Hundred Years of Solitude contains a fascinating review that may be of some use to student researchers.
http://www.amazon.ca/Hundred-Years-Solitude-Oprahs-Book/dp/0060740450

The next link is an essay about the ways that “death” is considered in One Hundred Years of Solitude.
http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/gabo_paper_simpson.html

The following is a college student’s paper about loss of innocence in One Hundred Years of Solitude.
http://www.geocities.com/relishguy/ggm0.html

A library card is needed to log into Ebsco Host and read the following peer-reviewed article from the Journal of Iberian and Latin America Studies, 2003: “Magical Realism in the Americas: Politicised Ghosts in One Hundred Years of Solitude, The House of the Spirits, and Beloved,” by Stephen M. Hart, University College, London.
http://0-web.ebscohost.com.helin.uri.edu/ehost/pdf?vid=3&hid=108&sid=425cd0b5-1d61-419a-84bf-9581a3c13b7a%40sessionmgr107

Also available on Ebsco Host is the following article: “Apathy and the Politics of Identity: Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Contemporary Cultural Criticism,” by Krapp, John, LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, 10436928, 2001, Vol. 11, Issue 4.
http://0-web.ebscohost.com.helin.uri.edu/ehost/detail?vid=3&hid=108&sid=425cd0b5-1d61-419a-84bf-9581a3c13b7a%40sessionmgr107&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=a9h&AN=4393788