"Hundred Years" and "Loneliness" in One Hundred Years of Solitude

The "centenary" in One Hundred Years of Solitude is the history of seven generations of Buendia family, and "loneliness" is the inevitable fate of this family.

The title "Centennial" is the process in which the author imagines history and life as a cycle when describing the centenary history of the Buntia family and Macondo. This century, from scratch, from scratch, has come a long way. This idea of circular theory runs through the plot structure and character description of the book, and its intention is obviously to show that the century-old history of Latin America has not got rid of the predicament of poverty, backwardness and ignorance.

But "loneliness", because the author Marquez saw that the misfortune and disaster in Latin America have both external reasons and internal reasons for their own existence, especially human spiritual reasons. He attributed this common problem in spiritual life to loneliness. Although the Bunia family members in his works are different in appearance and personality, their loneliness is their * * * nature, which is passed down from generation to generation and dominates their actions.

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The Unique Writing Method of One Hundred Years of Solitude

1, the combination of fantasy and reality

Narratively, as a narrative work, it not only contains many real historical elements, but also breaks the traditional concept of time and space, breaks the boundary between subjective world and objective things, and mixes many irrational fantasy factors, thus skillfully combining reality and fantasy, truth and absurdity, realism and exaggeration, seriousness and ridicule. , forming a unique world, like history rather than history.

2. Detailed psychological description of the characters

In the arrangement of characters and plots, this novel mainly describes the minds of the characters, portrays their different personalities and their overall characteristics-loneliness. With concise brushstrokes, the writer directly depicts the various levels of consciousness and psychological activities of the characters, and even deliberately ignores the description of the appearance and abandons the details unrelated to the performance of the characters' psychology. Therefore, the characters in the author's works are often vague in appearance and experience, but they are extremely distinctive and prominent in psychological and personality characteristics.