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A review by imaginary_space
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
dark
funny
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
This is such a massive work with so many layers, I struggled to decide how to even rate or review it. So in the end, I decided to boil it down to this:
This book is a surrealist's wet dream.
It kept me interested to the end, it made me feel things and it made me learn things. And the magical realism elements are perfectly executed for my tastes. The whole story of the Buendía family feels surreal, but is set in a world that feels extremely real and I loved that. That feeling of everything happening at the same time is something rare and hard to achieve. What impressed me most is that there is not one unnecessary sentence in the whole thing.
This book is a surrealist's wet dream.
It kept me interested to the end, it made me feel things and it made me learn things. And the magical realism elements are perfectly executed for my tastes. The whole story of the Buendía family feels surreal, but is set in a world that feels extremely real and I loved that. That feeling of everything happening at the same time is something rare and hard to achieve. What impressed me most is that there is not one unnecessary sentence in the whole thing.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Incest, Rape, Pedophilia, and Gun violence