Cien años de soledad: Edición conmemorativa (The 40th Anniversary Edition)

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The Real Academia Española celebrates the 40th Anniversary of Garcia Marquez s masterpiece in this beautiful commemorative edition. Prologues by Carlos Fuentes, Alvaro Mutis, Mario Vargas Llosa and other intellectuals. 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. -New York Times Book Review

Customer Reviews:

Maravilloso!.......2007-08-29

Inicia la historia con la boda de Ursula Iguaran y Jose Arcadio Buendia, la busqueda de un pueblo ideal donde vivir, la angustia de la espera de los hijos, angustia debido a la supersticion ya que eran primos y les habian dicho que sus hijos podrian nacer con cola de cerdo!...

Una historia completamente llena de cultura latinoamericana, donde la supersticion, hechiceria, leyendas, herencias, costumbres y etc's no fallan. Esta edicion viene acompañada entre otras cosas de un arbol genealogico que te es de gran ayuda, ya que despues de algunas generaciones de Jose Arcadios y Aurelianos.. pues es sabio recurrir a el.

Siempre he admirado la manera tan descriptiva de Garcia Marquez, pero con este titulo desde la primera persona hasta la ultima, arboles, esquinas y lo que gusten nombrar a todo se le otorga una historia, es un maestro!

Deception.......2007-08-25

I had a deception with this novel and this author. I thought it was first of all more organized in his thoughts, second, the theme was not one that lead to any valuable thought or of value to society, except just an invention of his imagination, which seems very convoluted. I read the one he wrote about the coronel did not have any answer or something like that, and that one I liked. But I thought this was his best novel, and I was far wrong. Gloria

An over-rated Nobel laureate.......2007-07-03

I read Spanish-language books to try to improve my Spanish vocabulary and reading ability. I had already read this author's "Putas tristes", and his autobiography, "Vivir para contarla". In the latter book García mentioned that he had read Romulo Gallegos when he was young. The latter's book, "Dóña Bárbara", which truly IS a classic of Latin American writing. I found García's book to have the same theme ("the struggle between landowners and peasants in L.A.), and even the style, to be essentially the same. Many other Latin authors, such as Isabel Allende, seem to also use the same plagiaristic ploy. Another thing annoying about García is his self-admitted tendency to employ outrageous exagerations with a straight face. In one episode of "Cien años" he describes a man so strong he carries a store counter from a store out into the street, and it too eleven men to get it back in. Come on now!!

One of my favourite books in a wonderful edition.......2007-07-01

I first read Cien años de soledad during my last year of high school, and I have read it several times again since then. Everytime I read it, I remember the words of my literature professor, after he asked us to buy the book: " I envy you all so much, so much - he said- because nothing compares to the feeling of reading Cien años for the first time. I wish I could feel like that again." He was right.

This is a magical book, and this anniversary edition one that deserves a place in the library of all those who love Gabo.

One hundred years of pleasure.......2007-06-13

Esta nueva edicion conmemorativa a cargo de la Real Academia Espanola en conjuncion con la Asociacion de academias de la lengua espanola pone en manos del lector la novela de Garcia Marquez consagrada ya como un clasico de la literatura universal. Aunque esta edicion tiene el merito de compilar una serie de ensayos de escritores de la talla de Carlos Fuentes, Vargas Llosa, Alvaro Mutis, Claudio Guillen, entre otros; una extensa bibliografia y un utilisimo glosario, el lector que se inicia en esta obra deberia complementar su lectura con la insuperable edicion critica de Catedra que trae, ademas, notas a pie de paginas, ausente desgraciadamente en la presente edicion. De todas maneras esta es una edicion muy cuidada que limpia las asperezas, erratas y expresiones dudosas de previas ediciones.

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Not my kind of book
fantastic
no need to review
Master Piece!
La mejor novela contemporanea escrita en cualquier idioma

CIEN ANOS DE SOLEDAD (Copntemporanea)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Manufacturer: Plaza y Janes
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Memoria de mis putas tristes
Cronica de una muerte anunciada
El amor en los tiempos del colera
Del Amor Y Otros Demonios
Como agua para chocolate

ASIN: 0307350428
Release Date: 2006-02-07

Customer Reviews:

Not my kind of book.......2007-08-06

After reading all kinds of reviews about how wonderful this book is, I had to read it. I could not get beyond the first 25 pages. Boring beyond belief. Maybe the story picks up, but I doubt it.

During the 1st few pages it tells the story of this guy who buys a strong magnet from a Gypsy in an attempt to find gold with it. The magnet is so strong that it pulls the nails out of the walls of the houses and the houses collapse. See what I mean.

fantastic.......2007-05-14

ES UN LIBRO FANTASTICO MUY BUENO DIVERTIDO, TE HACE LLORAR Y REIR CON LAS LOCURAS QUE CUENTA, LO RECOMIENDO.

no need to review.......2007-05-09

Simply the greatest book in the history of Spanish language and one of the greatest books ever written.

Master Piece!.......2007-03-10

I have heard of this book as a kid and I am glad I read it as an adult to appreciate it even more.

La mejor novela contemporanea escrita en cualquier idioma.......2006-08-17

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La mejor novela de nuestros tiempos! Es obligatorio leerla!
I hate this book!!!!
Cien años de soledad
The day that the magic realism invaded the literature!
Horrible book

Cien años de soledad
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Manufacturer: Diana
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El amor en los tiempos del colera
Memoria de mis putas tristes
Don Quijote de la Mancha
Cronica de una muerte anunciada
El laberinto de la soledad

ASIN: 968131574X

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A dense jungle of magic and literary gusto, this book pulls you in and engulfs you with its richness and beauty. Saying it is a story of a family is like saying the New Testament is a book about a carpenter. Following the family here reveals the history of several generations, and the passions, thoughts, and myths of a labyrinth of people, related and not. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a gifted writer, and nowhere does he write with the fervor that he does in One Hundred Years of Solitude, a pleasurable ride unmatched in modern literature.

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This the most important novels written by this author which everyone must read. With this novel he won the 1982 Novel Prizze in Literature.

Customer Reviews:

La mejor novela de nuestros tiempos! Es obligatorio leerla!.......2007-02-02

Este es un libro fascinante, lleno de realismo mágico, aventuras, drama y pasión. Un libro con el que se puede identificar cualquier latinoamericano por todo lo que tiene de cotidiano y de supersticioso. La historia tiene ciertas similitudes con la Biblia (Génesis, Exodo, Evangelios) , con las Mil y Una Noches y otras literaturas; lo que hacen que leerla le parezca a uno muy familiar aparte de que el lenguaje que utiliza García Márquez es muy sencillo y cotidiano. Nadie que la lea olvidará jamás a Ursula, o a Fernanda del Carpio, a Remedios la Bella o a cualquiera de los Aurelianos o José Arcadios. Es un libro adictivo para aquellos que dan sus primeros pasos en la buena literatura.

Después del Quijote, la mejor novela escrita en español, pero también la mejor novela contemporanea de nuestros tiempos. Es por eso, impresindible leer esta genial novela.

Un atractivo extra de esta edición son las notas al pie de página que da Jacques Joset, que permiten al lector aclarar muchas dudas acerca de donde tomá el autor nombres de personajes o de lugares. A mi en lo personal, me resulto mucho más interesante, ya que tenia ciertas dudas como de donde se inspiró García Márquez para hablar del Duque de Marlborough, de Rocamadour, o de Francisco El Hombre.

I hate this book!!!!.......2006-12-29

It's well-written and the characters are well developed, but I must say that the story is just horrible. I'm sorry, but if this is the best literature of Latin America, I'd rather not read anymore of it. I really don't know why people like this book!
I'll stick to good Brazilian literature, such as Machado de Assis.

Cien años de soledad.......2006-11-05

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's masterpiece describes the history of Latin America with the Buendía family through Marquez's use of magic-realism. The novel takes the reader on a journey where anything and everything is possible. This is the heart of Latin America.

The day that the magic realism invaded the literature! .......2006-05-26

What definitively marked this subduing novel throughout the Pantheon of the immortality was to have got the perfect balance between an organic depicting coherence and a winged concatenation of fevered delirium; the accurate involvement between Eros and Psyche, that invisible sensation of getting into a new universe of unlimited possibilities, where we agree to become accomplices of this master of ceremony; wizard of the dreamy landscapes and old shaman of the word.

The multiple web of pertinent circumstances that surround that small village named Macondo were so bewitching interweaved and magically disposed that produced a febrile positive effervescence in the reader, because as the cathartic experience demands, there are neither rules nor roads. The terrible humidity of Macondo overwhelms us and in the meantime leads to new coordinates of the historic perspective, where time and space are badly drawn and the sensation of vertigo and insecurity involves the reader.

With this work, Garcia Marquez not only achieved that coveted pearl so many times described in Mythology that represents the summon of the creative pinnacle; besides he opened the gate for the rest of the world to discover that famous phrase, wedged by Vasconcelos: "Latin America: the cosmic race"

We can find similar parallelisms if we take a look around: Picasso and Guernica, Schubert and his String Quintet Op.163

This pyramidal feat so many times desired and so few times achieved, not only consolidated the prestige of his creator, but simultaneously allowed the rest of the world to acquire a vertiginous interest for other notable writers of the fantastic literature, such Onetti, Horacio Quiroga, Borges, Bioy Casares, Cortazar or Miguel Angel Asturias.

Horrible book.......2006-04-29

It seems as though the author's gimmick has worked. Let's write a book in a "circular" time and place pattern and confuse the hell out of all the readers. Yes, we get it, the style of writing is symbolic of the cycle of life described in the book: it is a never-ending cyclic nightmare! What most annoys me about this book, however, is the literary snobbery of pseudo-literary fans who drop the name Gabriel Garcia Marquez as if he were the biggest literary genius of all time just because he wrote a book with almost no punctuation and a jumbled up storyline! Yes, life in the Caribbean is just as frustrating as this book, and no, don't live there or read this book if you don't want to drive yourself nuts.

Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitude (Contemporanea)

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PRESIDENT CLINTON PLACES IT ON HIS ESSENTIAL READING LIST
One of the best books you'll ever read
Most magical and amazing read ever...
One of the best books ever written.
above 5 stars

Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitude (Contemporanea)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Manufacturer: Debolsillo
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PRESIDENT CLINTON PLACES IT ON HIS ESSENTIAL READING LIST.......2006-08-09

no telling where the currently seated president places it.

As for the rest, seems like you folks never read GGM's "other bible": James Joyce's Ulysses

One of the best books you'll ever read.......2005-10-23

I've had this book in my collection for the last 5 years. I tried to pick it up when I was 20 but I'm glad I waited. A couple of nights ago I couldn't sleep and went to my study to pick it up. I haven't slept since.

Cien años de soledad is a literary triumph. It tells us the story of the Buendías, the founders of Macondo, a small village somewhere in South America (my guess being Colombia, of course). García Márquez takes the reader into the lives and deaths and everything in between of this singular family and how their lives, though so magical and tragic at times, relate to yours and mine. The language and diction are just perfect (though I recommend a good Spanish dictionary because some words can be tricky), making you travel to this very remote place and experience ice, magnets, telegraphs, trains and bananas for the very first time.

This is without a doubt, one of the best books you'll ever read. Get a piece of paper, write down the family tree (because it will get confusing) and enjoy the ride.

"...porque las estirpes condenadas a cien años de soledad no tienen una segunda oportunidad sobre la tierra."

Most magical and amazing read ever..........2005-08-25

I'm not one to praise or hype above deserved merit. Cien Años De Soledad, which I read in its original language - Spanish, is the best book I've read. While some may find it confusing, it actually gets easier as you read on.

I tend to breeze through books but this book prevented me for doing so. Albeit for a bit of its complexity but more so because you want to enjoy every minute of it. There are many things, which you know are impossible in the real world, but you want to believe and you do believe in the end.

Some may say that it's a slow read and that some parts are even boring, well, yes, some parts are boring but not so much a flaw of the writing but a way for the reader to really get to know each character thoroughly without distraction.

Another point to note, and the best part to me, is the ending. Most books end with the love-couple finally getting together or the killer finally revealed or the main character somehow overcoming their worst fears, not this one, no sir, this is the mother of all endings. The Sixth Sense's ending is crap compared to the ending of Cien Años De Soledad.

One of the best books ever written........2004-03-25

This is a book everybody should have in his or her collection. I have read it twice, and certainly will read it again. I've never met anyone who didn't like it. I would recommend it to my best friend and my worst enemy. It's funny, exotic and will make you forget everything around you, even your upstairs neighboors noisily remodelling their apartment.

above 5 stars.......2004-03-23

I've only space for 1000 words so I narroved my review to 1 word, BRILLIANT

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude: A Casebook (Casebooks in Criticism)

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This book is a treasure.
Helpful, but like so many anthologies, uneven
Excellent material

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude: A Casebook (Casebooks in Criticism)

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: 0195144554

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Casebooks in Criticism offer analytical and interpretive frameworks for understanding key texts in world literature and film. Each casebook reprints documents relating to a work's historical context and reception, presents the best critical studies, and, when possible, features an interview with the author. Accessible and informative to scholars, students, and nonspecialist readers alike, the books in this series provide a wide range of critical and informative commentaries on major texts. Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude is arguably the most important novel in twentieth-century Latin American literature. This Casebook features ten critical articles on Garcia Marquez's great work. Carefully selected from the most important work on the novel over the past three decades, they include pieces by Carlos Fuentes, Iris Zavala, James Higgins, Jean Franco, Michael Wood, and Gene H. Bell-Villada. Among the intriguing aspects of the work discussed are its mythic dimension, its "magical" side, its representations of women, its relationship with past chronicles of exploration and discovery, its portrayals of Western power and imperialism, its astounding diffusion throughout the globe and the media, and its simple truth-telling, its fidelity to the tangled history of Latin America. The book incorporates several theoretical approaches--historical, feminist, postcolonial; the first English translation of Fuentes's renowned, oft-cited, eight page meditation on the work; a general introduction; and a 1982 interview with Garcia Marquez.

Customer Reviews:

This book is a treasure........2005-03-26

This is my favorite book. I have read it so many times I have lost the count, and each time I feel and live it and I can't put it down. It's the brightest jewel in the Latin American literature. This is a jealous book, it's not for the people who "act" as if they were reading, while thinking of something else. It demands your full attention. If you have trouble following a complex story line, I recomend you to read it while keeping a pencil and paper handy so you can draw the Buendia's family tree. It will help you to follow the story. That's what I told my mom to do and it worked out right. If you are feeling adventurous and want to read a story full of life, passion, death, and love, this is the book for you. I have never ever found another book so human inspite of being magical. I invite you to read it, if you really follow this book, you won't regret the hours you spent immersed in it.

Helpful, but like so many anthologies, uneven.......2003-03-24

This book cannot fail to be of use to anyone trying to gain a fuller understanding of García Márquez's ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE. Although not useless to advanced readers, the collection is explicitly targeted at readers approaching the text for the first time. I imagine they had this in mind as a college text to accompany the novel.

Anthologies are almost always uneven, with some essays justifying the cost of the book, and others that seem to either muddy the water or just waste one's time. This collection is no exception. Several of the essays are superb. In general, as the editor acknowledges in the Introduction, the clearest, most helpful essays are those by scholars working in Great Britain. The least helpful are those scholars--either American or Latin American--in the grips of literary theory. One of the essays is so densely written that nearly the entire piece consists of buzz words from cultural studies and comparative literature. I can't imagine many college level readers having the background to penetrate such an essay, while many advanced scholars will recognize that such an essay covers up lack of content by an excess of lingo.

Nonetheless, by picking and choosing, one will gain a great deal of help in reading García Márquez's great novel. There is a good deal of helpful biographical and historical information, as well as a number of excellent critical pieces analyzing various aspects of the book. I found the essays in the first two thirds of the book to be more helpful than those in the last third, with some exceptions in each section.

And yes, the font is small, but I didn't have the trouble reading the book that the first reviewer had.

Excellent material.......2002-11-18

Excellent material but the print is too small to read without strain even with glasses.

Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude (Landmarks of World Literature)

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Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude (Landmarks of World Literature)
Michael Wood
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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ASIN: 0521316928

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One Hundred Years of Solitude is perhaps the most important landmark of the so-called ‘Boom’ in contemporary Latin American fiction. Published in 1967, the novel was an instant success, running to hundreds of editions, winning four international prizes, and being translated into 27 languages. In 1982, its author received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Michael Wood places the novel in the context of modern Colombia’s violent history, and helps the reader to explore the rich and complex vision of the world which Garcia Marquez presents in it. Close reference is made to the text itself (in English translation), and there is a guide to further reading.

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Cien Anos De Soledad
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Manufacturer: Barcelona, Circulo de Lectores
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Cien años de soledad: Edición conmemorativa (The 40th Anniversary Edition)

ASIN: B000MNCZ1W

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SPANISH HARDCOVER NOVEL (NOVELA EN ESPANOL)was first published in Spanish in 1967 The book is considered García Márquez's masterpiece, metaphorically encompassing the history of Colombia. The novel chronicles a family's struggle, and the history of their fictional town, Macondo, for one hundred years.

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Cien Anos De Soledad
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Manufacturer: Plaza y Janes
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Rayuela/ Hopscotch
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)

ASIN: 0307350274
Release Date: 2006-02-07

Cien Años de Soledad/ 100 Years of Solitude

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An overall great novel
simplemente increible

Cien Años de Soledad/ 100 Years of Solitude

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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Cien años de soledad: Edición conmemorativa (The 40th Anniversary Edition)

ASIN: 0785950109

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An overall great novel.......2001-07-25

From the very start, this novel was a page turner. I love the fact that it had a magical realism aspect, this made the novel that more interesting.

simplemente increible.......2000-01-21

Hay que tener en cuenta que GGM fue finalmente reconocido y premiado justamente por este libro. La historia esta escrita con una sensibilidad extrema y lleva el lector a un viaje por el tiempo que acompaña una familia muy interessante, pero también muy rara. Hay que leerlo com calma y, a veces, buscar la ayuda de lapis y papel para no perderse en el laberinto de nombres iguales. Además, a quién le interesar leer este libro, que no caiga en la tentación de comprar una obra comentada: se pirde mucho tiempo en leer lo que piensan otros acerca del livro y del autor en vez de aprovechar la lectura y sacar sus propias conclusiones. Hay de todo: para reír, para llorar, cosas fantásticas y otras muy reales. Estupendo!

Cien Anos de Soledad (Estudio Literario)

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Cien Anos de Soledad (Estudio Literario)
Gustavo Reyes
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Cien anos de soledad: Analisis y estudio sobre la obra, el autor y su epoca (Compendios Vosgos series)

ASIN: 9583007846

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