Macondo's Genesis

Published in 1967, One Hundred Years of Solitude traces seven generations of the Buendía family in Macondo, a fictional Colombian town. Gabriel García Márquez wrote it in eighteen months of feverish work, selling his car to fund the writing while his wife ran the household on credit.

The Buendía family keeps repeating its own history without realizing it. Names recycle across generations, mistakes echo, and Macondo seems trapped in a temporal loop spanning a hundred years of isolation and repetition.