One Hundred Years Of Solitude Realism

The reality of the universe of this particular work in One Hundred Years of Solitude by García Márquez erases the boundaries between the fantastic or imaginary and the real in order to present a situation in which both coexist in harmony. Although literary critics who see the novel as a totality unto itself, with its own declared ends bearing only an analogous relationship to society 's activity, may well object to this kind of test. Such critics may seek to judge novelists, not according to how well they depict real life, but in terms of how they create a new reality in an independent literary world. But since the novelist has an impact upon society, we argue that his work must also be judged on its view of "reality" and its interaction with human events. The characters in One Hundred Years of Solitude speak as if at a long and phenomenal party. The

Macondo synthesizes and reflects (at the same time that it denies) true reality: its history condenses human history... especially that of Latin America from its social origins to its extinction: those one hundred years of life reproduce the vicissitudes of all civilization (birth. development. apogee. decline. death), and. more precisely, the stages that have passed (or are passing) in the majority of third-world satieties, the neocolonial countries." (p. 298- 299) Events do not appear so "fantastic" at all but a fundamental aspect of the reality of village life that he has fashioned. Separating the different folkloric elements belonging to this field of the