Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Broschiertes Buch

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Beschreibung

"One Hundred Years of Solitude is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. . . . García Márquez has done nothing less than to create in the reader a sense of all that is profound, meaningful, and meaningless in life." -William Kennedy, National Observer

One of the most influential literary works of our time, One Hundred Years of Solitude remains a dazzling and original achievement by the masterful Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. It's now available as a special Harper Perennial Olive Edition.

The story of the village of Macondo, as seen through the lives of seven generations of the Buendía family, is told with Marquez's trademark mastery of magical realism. The founders, José Arcadio Buendía and Úrsula Iguarán, establish the village while camping on a riverbank, after José dreams about a "city of mirrors" that would reflect the world. The people of the town - which is solitary and disconnected from the outside world, save for a band of nomads that visits every year - experience extraordinary events across generations, until they are finally unable to hide from the the newly independent government of Colombia. Alternately reverential and comical, One Hundred Years of Solitude weaves the political, personal and spiritual to bring a new consciousness to storytelling. The novel has been translated into dozens of languages, making it a classic of truly global proportions.

Harper Perennial Olive Editions are exclusive small-format editions of some of our bestselling and celebrated titles, and feature unique hand-drawn cover illustrations. All Olive Editions are available for a limited time only.

Autor

Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1927 in the town of Aracataca, Columbia. Latin America's preeminent man of letters, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. García Márquez began his writing career as a journalist and is the author of numerous other works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels The Autumn of the Patriarch and Love in the Time of Cholera, and the autobiography Living to Tell the Tale. There has been resounding acclaim for his life's work since his death in April 2014.

Produktdetails

• Harper Perennial Olive Editions
• Verlag: Harper Perennial / HarperCollins US
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 181mm x 114mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780063464452
• ISBN-10: 0063464454
• Artikelnr.: 73370952

Rezensionen

"You emerge from this marvelous novel as if from a dream, the mind on fire. . . . With a single bound, Gabriel García Márquez leaps onto the stage with Günter Grass and Vladimir Nabokov, his appetite as enormous as his imagination, his fatalism greater than either. Dazzling." - John Leonard, New York Times

"One Hundred Years of Solitude is the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race. It takes up not long after Genesis left off and carries through to the air age, reporting on everything that happened in between with more lucidity, wit, wisdom, and poetry that is expected from 100 years of novelists, let alone one man. . . .

García Márquez has done nothing less than to create in the reader a sense of all that is profound, meaningful, and meaningless in life." - William Kennedy, National Observer

"This extraordinary novel obliterates the family tree in a prose jungle of overwhelming magnificence. . . . You have the sense of living along with the Buendías (and the rest), in them, through them, and in spite of them, in all their loves, madnesses and wars, their allegiances, compromises, dreams and deaths. . . . Like the jungle itself, this novel comes back again and again, fecund, savage and irresistible." - Paul West, Washington Post

"At 50 years old, García Márquez's masterpiece is as important as ever. . . To experience a towering work like One Hundred Years of Solitude is to be reminded of the humility we should all feel when trying to assert what is true and what is false." - LitHub

"One of the seminal works of 20th century Latin American fiction, it is a classic." - Variety

"An irresistible work of storytelling, mixing the magic of the fairy tale, the realistic detail of the domestic novel and the breadth of the family saga." - New York Times

"The greatest novel in any language of the last fifty years." - Salman Rushdie

"Unofficially, it's everybody's favorite work of world literature and the novel that, more than any other since World War II, has inspired novelists of our time-from Toni Morrison to Salman Rushdie to Junot Díaz. . . . Sexy, entertaining, experimental, politically radical, and wildly popular all at once." - Vanity Fair

"No other writer in our time has operated on so vast a scale. None has approached his literary achievement. . . . [García Márquez is] the most important writer of the second half of the twentieth century in any language." - The Nation

"One Hundred Years of Solitude is substantive and substantial, and its prose precise for the simple reason that its sentences are too exquisite to be inessential. It is a novel on which is bestowed the laurels usually awarded to great works of frugal prose. Yet its genius is in the operatic telling." - USA Weekend

"The greatest revelation in the Spanish language since Don Quixote." - Pablo Neruda

"One Hundred Years of Solitude offers plenty of reflections on loneliness and the passing of time. It can also be seen as a caustic commentary on the evils of war, or a warm appreciation of familial bonds. García Márquez has urgent things to say that still feel close to home, 50 years after the book was first published." - USA Today (four stars)

"A fabulous creation of magic, and metaphor, and myth. . . . To depict a world so fabulous, so exotic, so extravagant in its comic and tragic effects and yet so palpably real is a magnificent achievement." - William McPherson, Washington Post

One of the Landmarks of Modern Literature - New York Public Library

"[This novel] is very special. . . . An expansive legend of a town and family, a political parable, an instrument of rare magic that performs astonishing miracles of transformation. It is a comic masterpiece. It is intelligent. It is slippery with the juice of life." - Newsweek

The book that sort of saved my life Emma Thompson

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung | Besprechung von 08.03.2009

Die Nebel von Macondo

Ich habe es ja versucht. Als ich im Buch irgendwann nicht mehr weiterkam, habe ich es mir sogar vorlesen lassen, im Norddeutschen Rundfunk, immer um halb neun Uhr morgens. Aber auch das dauerte und quälte und zog sich hin. Weil der Schauspieler, der "Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit" von Gabriel García Márquez damals vortrug, es war vermutlich Gert Westphal, die knappe halbe Stunde, die er dazu hatte, meist damit vergeuden musste, immer wieder diesen unendlichen Namen durchzubuchstabieren: José Arcadio Buendía. Noch ein José Arcadio Buendía. Und dazu ein José Arcadio Segundo Buendía. Und danach schon wieder ein José Arcadio Buendía. Dessen Schwester heißt Renata Remedios Buendía. Und deren Mutter Aureliana

Segundo Buendía. Nicht zu vergessen Santa Sofia von der Frömmigkeit. Aureliano Triste. Mauricio Babilonia. Oda-Gebbine Holze-Stäblein. Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel. Dann waren die dreißig Minuten am Radio vorbei und Vorleser und Zuhörer gleichermaßen erschöpft.

Ich vermute, in Wirklichkeit hat dieser Amazonas von Vornamen und Nachnamen und Rängen den entrückten Zustand hervorgebracht, den man magischen Realismus nannte. Lateinamerika, das war für mich kein Geisterhaus, sondern ein Standesamt. Wenn einen aber Meisterwerke nobelpreisprämierter Großschriftsteller nerven, die andere in Wallung bringen, traut man zuerst einmal der eigenen Urteilskraft nicht mehr. Und beginnt, die Schuld bei sich selbst zu suchen: zu einsilbig. Zu kaltblütig. Zu diesseitig. Zu wenig Vornamen. Zu viel Norddeutscher Rundfunk, zu wenig Fitzcarraldo. Aber dann las ich, wie Julian Barnes in "Flauberts Papagei" eine Art Kontinentalsperre für südamerikanische Romane forderte, und war wieder beruhigt. Barnes hatte offenbar auch die Nase voll vom dampfenden Geruch des Regenwalds, von fadenscheinigen Damen mit zweitem Gesicht, Zaubervögeln (Flauberts Papagei hat damit nichts zu tun, der war ausgestopft!), flüsternden Nebeln, hellsehenden Bäumen, Dschungeldörfern, wundertätigen Wurzeln und ewigen Alten - und verlangte nach Subventionen für Romane, die am Nord- oder Südpol spielen.

Für diese Bücher wiederum könnte man mittlerweile zwar auch und mit gleichem Recht eine Kontinentalsperre fordern. Damals aber, als die Leute nicht genug vom schwülen Klima verrätselter Familiengeschichten bekommen konnten, verstand ich den Bedarf an kaltem, klarem Wasser genau. Das Fabulierpathos von "Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit", der Überdruss an Phantasie, der Aberglaube als Erzählmodus: Alles schön und gut. Aber wenn heute infantile Regression beklagt wird, weil sich Leser jenseits der mittleren Reife tief in die Welt von Harry Potter hineinfräsen, kann ich nur sagen: Da waren wir schon mal. (Barnes hat in "Flauberts Papagei" übrigens auch einen Auslieferungsstopp für englische Schuluniformromane gefordert.) Und hat man Südamerika, das in der mittleren Phase der alten Bundesrepublik als Sorgenkind und Sehnsuchtsort zugleich entdeckt wurde, eigentlich gut damit getan, es vor allem als Land exotischer Riten und Familienbünde zu genießen? Dort drüben allerdings wurde "Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit" unvorstellbar oft gelesen. Vielleicht bin ich doch das Problem.

TOBIAS RÜTHER

Gabriel García Márquez: "Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit". Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 10 Euro

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