Gabriel José García Márquez was born in Aracataca (Colombia) in 1928. In 1961 he published The Colonel no one writes.Many elements of their stories are brought to an unusual interest to be integrated in One Hundred Years of Solitude. In it, Márquez builds and brings to life the mythical town of Macondo, an imaginary country where the improbable and magical no less real than the everyday, logical, this is the basic tenet of what became known as magic realism.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
is a novel considered a masterpiece
of American literature and universal,
is one of the most translated works
and read in Spanish.
It was rated the second most
important work of the Spanish
language.