One Hundred Years of Solitude: 40th birthday celebration

"...it decodes the DNA of Hispanic civilization. It is a "total" novel, designed by a demiurge capable of creating a universe as comprehensive as ours. One Hundred Years of Solitude has done something astonishing. It has survived, accumulating disparate, at times conflicting rereadings."

Ilan Stavans, a teacher of litearature, writes about his current reading experience of OHYOS in an

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