What is Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude about?

One Hundred Years of Solitude, the representative work of Colombian writer Garcí a Má rquez, is also the representative work of Latin American magical realism literature, and is regarded as "a masterpiece to reproduce the historical and social picture of Latin America". The work describes the legendary story of seven generations of Buendia family and the centenary rise and fall of Macondo, a small town on the Caribbean coast, and reflects the changeable history of Latin America in the past hundred years. The works are mixed with myths and legends, folk stories, religious allusions and other mysterious factors. , skillfully combines reality and illusion, shows a magnificent imaginary world, and becomes one of the most important classic literary masterpieces in the 20th century.

2. Content introduction

First generation family

Jose Al-Cattiau Buendia is a descendant of the Spanish and lives in an Indian village far from the sea.

When she first married ursula, ursula wore special tights every night for fear of giving birth to a child with a long tail like an aunt married an uncle, so she was laughed at by the villagers. Jose Al-Cattiau Buendia killed Prudencio Aguilar, who laughed at him after winning the cockfighting competition. Since then, the ghost of the deceased has often appeared in front of his eyes. The ghost's painful and desolate eyes made him restless day and night. So Jose Al Cattiau Buendia left the village with friends and family and went out to find a place to live. After more than two years of trekking, they came to a beach. Inspired by their dreams, they decided to settle down and build villages and towns. This is Macondo. The history of Macondo's Buendia family began. Jose Al-Cattiau Buendia is a very creative person. He saw the magnets on the gypsies and wanted to use them to dig for gold. Seeing that a magnifying glass can focus sunlight, I tried to develop a powerful weapon. I got the sight finder and sextant for navigation from gypsies, and realized through experiments that "the earth is round, like an orange". He is dissatisfied with his backward life. He complained to his wife, "incredible things are happening in the world." There are many magical machines around us, just across the river, but we are still alive like donkeys here. " Because Macondo is hidden in the vast swamp and isolated from the world. He is determined to open up a road to connect Macondo with great foreign inventions. He led a group of people through the difficulties for more than two weeks, but ended in failure. He said bitterly, "We can't go anywhere anymore. We will live and rot here and enjoy the benefits brought by science. " . Later, he became fascinated with alchemy and shut himself in the laboratory all day. Because his spiritual world was incompatible with Macon's narrow, backward and conservative reality, he fell into loneliness and could not extricate himself, so that he lost his mind, was tied to a big tree by his family, and died in that tree decades later. Ursula became the pillar of his family, and he died between 1 15 and 122.

Second generation family

There are two men and one woman in the second generation of Buendia family: the eldest, Jose Al Cattiau, was born on the way to Macondo. He grew up on the road, as stubborn as his father, but without his imagination; He had an affair with a woman named pilar Ternella and had children, but he fell in love with a gypsy woman when a gypsy came to Macondo to perform, so he chose to run away. Later, he came back, but his temperament was uncertain. In the end, regardless of her family's opposition, she married Rebecca, but she was kicked out of the house and finally shot at home.

The second child, Aureliano, was born in Macondo, crying in his mother's stomach and was born with his eyes open. He was endowed with the ability to foresee things from an early age. As a teenager, he was as reticent as his father and worked like a goldfish in his father's laboratory all day. When he grew up, he fell in love with the young Ramedes in Macondori. Before that, he and his brother's lover had a son named Aureliano Jose. His beautiful wife and twins were killed by Amaranta. Later, he took part in the civil war and became a colonel. He suffered 14 assassinations, 73 ambushes and one execution in his life, and all survived. When he realized that war was meaningless, he made it convenient for the government to sign a peace treaty, stop the war and shoot himself in the heart, but he miraculously survived. He lived with 17 foreign women and gave birth to 17 boys. The boys went back to Macondo to find their roots, but they were chased. A week later, only the boss survived. Aureliano returned home in his later years, refining gold into small goldfish every day and making two goldfish every day. At the age of 25, he melted it in a crucible and made it again. He lived an isolated and lonely life like his father until his death.

The third daughter Amaranda fell in love with Italian piano technician Pietro. Rival Rebecca gave up the Italians, and after she married Jose Al Cattiau, she contacted the Italians but refused to marry them. The Italian committed suicide. Because of remorse, she deliberately burned a hand and bandaged it with a black bandage all her life, determined never to marry. However, she felt extremely lonely and depressed, and even hung out with her newly grown nephew, hoping to use it as a "temporary medicine to treat diseases." However, she can never get rid of her inner loneliness. She shut herself in her room all day sewing mourning clothes, sewing and sewing until the last moment of her life.

The third generation family

In the third generation, there are only Jose al Cattiau's son Al Cattiau and Aureliano's son Jose. The former didn't know who his biological mother was, but fell madly in love with his biological mother, almost making a big mistake. However, due to the introduction of his biological mother, he fell in love with Sophia Drabida, and later became an unprecedented tyrant of Macondo, taking bribes and perverting the law, and was finally shot by conservative troops. The latter matured prematurely, fell in love with menstruation Amaranda, fell into loneliness because of dissatisfaction, and joined the army. After entering the army, I still couldn't get rid of menstruation's love, so I went to a prostitute for comfort to get rid of loneliness, and finally died in the disorderly army.

The fourth generation of the family

The fourth generation is a daughter and two men born of Al Cattiau's adultery. The beautiful daughter Ramedes has a disturbing smell and has killed several men. She is naked and covered with a cloth bag, just don't want to waste time on dressing. This unique girl has a clear understanding of the world and is detached from the outside world. Finally, she magically grabbed a white sheet, went with the wind and disappeared into the air forever.

Her two younger brothers, Al Cattiau and Aureliano, are twins. For the second time, Al Cattiau served as the director of an American-run banana company, encouraging workers to strike and becoming a labor leader. Later, he led more than 3,000 workers to strike and was suppressed by the military and police. He is the only one among more than 3,000 people who survived. He witnessed the government transporting the bodies of workers to the sea by train, and announced on the radio that the workers were temporarily transferred to other places to work. Al Cattiau went around telling the truth about the massacre he witnessed, but he was considered insane. He was so scared and disappointed that he shut himself up at home and studied the sheepskin manuscripts left by gypsies. He stayed in this room until his death.

The second Aureliano has no proper occupation, and indulges in drinking and having fun all day, leaving his wife fernanda and hanging out with his mistress Petra. Strangely, whenever he lives with his mistress, his livestock multiply rapidly, which brings him wealth. Once he returned to his wife, his family business was ruined. He had two daughters and a man with his wife, and finally died of illness at the same time as Al Cattiau. From birth to death, people never knew who these two brothers were.

Fifth generation family

The fifth generation of Buendia family is Aureliano's second two women and one man. Jose Al Cattiau, the eldest son, was sent to the Roman Theological Seminary as a child. His mother hopes that he will become a bishop in the future, but he has no interest in it. He lied to his mother that he was studying in a seminary just for the sake of his imaginary legacy. After his mother died, he went home to make a living by selling his family business. Later, it was discovered that Ursula had hidden more than 7,000 gold coins in the cellar. After that, he lived a more dissolute life and was soon killed by gangsters who robbed gold coins.

The eldest daughter, Renata Ramdiss (Mei Mei), falls in love with Mahulishaw Babylon, a mechanic in the garage of Banana Company. Their mother forbade them to associate, so they had to meet secretly in the bathroom. When her mother found out, she forbade her daughter to go out and hired a bodyguard to stay at home. Mahurishaw Babylonia climbed onto the roof of Mei Mei and was shot in the back by bodyguards. He was ill in bed all day, regarded as a chicken thief and died of old age in loneliness. Mei Mei's despair. Her mother thought it was a shame to wash her dirty linen in public, and sent her pregnant to a monastery without saying a word for life.

The youngest daughter, Amaranda Ursula, went to school in Brussels in her early years, where she interacted with the pilot Si Tong. After the interaction, they returned to Macondo, saw the desolation and decided to rebuild their homes. She is full of vigor and vitality, and in just three months, her family has been completely transformed. With her arrival, Macondo has a most special person. She is in a better mood than at home. She wants to put all her prejudices into eighteen layers of hell. She decided to settle down and save the disaster-stricken town.

The sixth generation of the family

Buendia's sixth generation is Mei Mei's illegitimate son Aureliano Buendia. He has been growing up in loneliness since he was born. His only hobby is hiding in the room of Maerki AS, a gypsy, studying all kinds of mysterious books and manuscripts. He was able to talk to Melquiades, an old gypsy who had died for many years, and was instructed to learn Sanskrit. He has always been indifferent to the world around him, but he knows all about medieval learning. He and Jose al Cattiau refused to take in the only surviving eldest son of Aureliano 17, which led him to be shot and killed by his pursuers. He unconsciously fell in love with menstruation Amaranda Ursula and had an incestuous relationship. Although they are tortured by loneliness and love, they think they are the only happy people in the world after all. Later, Amaranta Ursula gave birth to a boy: "He is the only baby born in Buendia in the last hundred years". However, he has a pigtail. Amaranda ursula also died of postpartum hemorrhage.

The boy with pigtails is the seventh heir to the Buendia family. He was eaten by a group of ants as soon as he was born. When Aureliano Buendia saw his son who was eaten by ants with only a small piece of skin, he finally deciphered Maerki Yade's manuscript. The inscription at the head of the manuscript reads: "The first person in the family will be tied to a tree, and the last person in the family is being eaten by ants." It turns out that this manuscript records the history of the Buendia family. At the moment when he finished translating the last chapter, a sudden hurricane blew the whole town of Ermakondo off the earth, and the town disappeared forever.

3. Creative background

During the 70 years from 1830 to 19, dozens of civil wars broke out in Colombia, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths. This book describes the historical facts in this respect in a large space, and it is condensed through the legendary career of the protagonist in the book. The hypocrisy of politicians, the cruelty of rulers, the blind obedience and ignorance of the people and so on. They are all very vivid. With vivid brushstrokes, the writer created many characters with distinct personalities and described the lonely spirit of this family. In this family, there is no emotional communication, lack of trust and understanding between husband and wife, father and son, mother and daughter, and brothers and sisters. Although many people have made arduous explorations to break the loneliness, they all failed in the end because they could not find an effective way to unify the scattered forces. This sense of loneliness not only permeates the Buendia family and Macondo town, but also permeates the narrow thoughts, which has become a big burden that hinders the progress of the nation and the country.

The author wrote this point in the hope that Latin American people will unite and work together to get rid of loneliness. Therefore, the loneliness immersed in One Hundred Years of Solitude, its main connotation should be resentment and protest against the exclusion of the whole suffering Latin America from the modern civilized world, and it is the stubborn self-confidence formed by the writer's unique research on the history of Latin America for nearly a hundred years and the unique vitality, living conditions and imagination of the people on this continent. Under the impact of new civilization, this ancient family tried to go out and look for a new world. Although they are afraid and shrink back, they abandon the traditional coat and hope to integrate into the world. However, foreign civilization swallowed up the family in an aggressive manner, so it continued to be "lonely for a hundred years" in such an open civilized world. The author expresses a lonely mental state to criticize the spiritual aggression of outsiders against the Latin American continent and the discrimination and exclusion of western civilization against Latin America. "Everything recorded in the parchment manuscript will never reappear, and families who have suffered from loneliness for a hundred years are doomed not to appear on the earth for the second time." The author expressed his deep resentment with a devastating ending.

4. Introduction to the author

Gabriel Garcí a Má rquez (1927-20 14) is a famous Colombian writer and a representative of magical realism literature. Marquez was born in Alacataka, a seaside town in Magdalena, Colombia, on 1927. I lived with my grandparents when I was a child. 1936 moved to Sucre with his parents. 1947 was admitted to the National University of Bogota. 1948 dropped out of school because of the civil war and entered the press. Literary works began to be published in the 1950s. Moved to Mexico in the early 1960s. 1967 published "One Hundred Years of Solitude". 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. The main feature of Garcí a Má rquez's works is the ingenious combination of fantasy and reality, thus reflecting social real life and examining life and the world. On April 20 14 17, Garcia Marquez died in Mexico City, Mexico, at the age of 87.