One Hundred Years of Solitude

Style and Technique

«One Hundred Years of Solitude» by Gabriel García Márquez is a vivid example of magical realism, a literary movement that combines realistic description with fantastical elements. Márquez creates a densely populated world of Macondo, where the mythological and the wondrous coexist with the mundane. The book employs techniques such as extensive genealogical trees, repetitions, and symbolic imagery, like recurring motifs of butterflies and rain of yellow flowers. The narrative is delivered in the third person with particular precision in describing psychological and philosophical digressions, giving the novel depth and complexity. The structure of the novel is nonlinear, representing a cycle of events and characters, emphasizing the cyclical nature of history and family curses that permeate the book.