Table of Contents

A note on translation and quotations; Chronology; 1. Contexts; 2. Samples of style; 3. The history of paradise; 4. Writers and magicians; 5. Invisible ink; 6. Love and death; 7. Aureliano's smile; 8. The liberation of Macondo; Guide to further reading.

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One Hundred Years of Solitude is perhaps the most important landmark of the so-called 'Boom' in contemporary Latin American fiction.