Name: Cent ans de Solitude
SKU: 3740119
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
ISBN: 9782020238113

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Gabriel García Márquez

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Editions Du Seuil

Synopsis "Cent ans de Solitude "

Une épopée vaste et multiple, un mythe haut en couleur plein de rêve et de réel. Histoire à la fois minutieuse et délirante d''une dynastie : la fondation, par l''ancêtre, d''un village sud-américain isolé du reste du monde ; les grandes heures marquées par la magie et l''alchimie ; la décadence ; le déluge et la mort des animaux. Ce roman proliférant, merveilleux et doré comme une enluminure, est à sa façon un Quichotte sud-américain : même sens de la parodie, même rage d''écrire, même fête cyclique des soleils et des mots.Cent Ans de solitude compte parmi les chefs-d''œuvre de la littérature mondiale du XXe siècle. L''auteur a obtenu le prix Nobel de littérature en 1982.

Gabriel García Márquez

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Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014), son of the Colombian Caribbean and immortal voice of Spanish narrative, is one of the most influential literary minds of the 20th century. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982, his talent transcended the boundaries of paper: he was a novelist, short story writer, essayist, screenwriter, film critic, and above all, a thinker committed to the pains and hopes of his homeland and all of Latin America. Architect of magical realism, he masterfully wove the everyday and the fantastic, making reality blur among yellow butterflies, eternal rains, and towns where the impossible was part of everyday life. His work gave life to a unique narrative universe, where history breathes, dreams, and bleeds intensely.

Among his most emblematic titles are One Hundred Years of Solitude, No One Writes to the Colonel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The General in His Labyrinth, Love in the Time of Cholera, and Strange Pilgrims, among others. In 2002 he opened the door to his memory with Living to Tell the Tale. In 2012, All the Stories were published, and, as if literary destiny refused to close the curtain on him, in 2024 his posthumous and unpublished novel See You in August was released.

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