Others had used magic realism. García Márquez made the technique his own
One Hundred Years of Solitude is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form – an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.
We discover that we are reading the book written by one of the characters, a Gypsy named Melquíades. At the same time that Aureliano is reading the last pages (written in coded Spanish translated into Sanskrit) so are we; the town and the manuscript go up in flames just as the century comes to a close.… Seguir leyendo »