Gabriel García Márquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude

michael wood

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.

Genres fictionclassicsnovelsliteraturemagical realismfantasyadult fictionlatin american literatureaudiobookromance

132 pages, Paperback

First published May 31,1990

Series

Landmarks of World Literature

This edition

Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Published: June 29, 1990 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521316927
ASIN: 0521316928
Language: English

About the author

michael wood

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Michael Wood born in Lincoln, England, is the Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English and Professor of comparative literature at Princeton University. He is an alumnus of St John's College, Cambridge.

Prior to teaching to Princeton, he taught at Columbia University, and at the University of Exeter in Devon, England.

He was Director of the Gauss Seminars in Criticism at Princeton from 1995-2001, and chaired Princeton's English department from 1998 to 2004. He writes regularly for The New York Review of Books and on film for the London Review of Books.