The only question is: which one is the best? Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1967 Below, I’ve selected one hundred different covers used for One Hundred Years of Solitude, published around the world between 19. This is a lush, descriptive, and relentlessly irreal novel, and as such, its cover treatments have varied wildly over the years. For a while it is a kind of utopia, though a strange one, but eventually, the encroachment of the outside world destroys everything the Buendías have built. Pablo Neruda once called Gabriel García Márquez’s 1967 novel One Hundred Years of Solitude “perhaps the greatest revelation in the Spanish language since the Don Quixote of Cervantes.” Now a beloved classic for millions, and the defining pinnacle of magical realist literature, the novel traces the Buendía family over seven generations spent in their fictional hometown of Macondo-founded in the Colombian rainforest by their patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía-which is reportedly based on Márquez’s own hometown of Aracataca, near the northern coast of Colombia.
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