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  • Essay / 100 Years of solitude Gabriel García Márquez - 793

    I came to Comala because I was told that my father, a certain Pedro Páramo, lived here. My mother told me. And I promised him that I would come see him as soon as he died. I shook his hands as a sign that I was going to do it; Well, she was about to die and I was planning to promise everything. (Rulfo, 1). The Mexican writer Juan Rulfo, undoubtedly one of the best writers in Mexico and Latin America, is part, along with other authors, of the "Literary Pre-boom" with his second work "Pedro Páramo" which was one of the best-selling books in the world. On the other hand, Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian and Nobel Prize winner for literature (1982), for his work “100 years of solitude”. Both literary works show marginalization, lack of identity, social inequality and many social problems. “In Latin America, the marvelous is found on every street corner, in the disorder, in the picturesqueness of our cities... In our nature... And also in our history. (Carpentier, 1). The above, as Alejo Carpentier says, is magical realism, this method was used by both authors who describe in their novels what the events were like depending on the time and country in which they lived and "paint "reality. in a “magical” way. One Hundred Years of Solitude is a novel that describes two families who somehow have commonalities that span generations. Gabriel García Márquez, considered the author of the “Literary Boom”, focuses from my point of view on Aureliano Buendía and his life, which, in my opinion, constitutes a kind of biography of the character. “Many years later, in front of the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia must have remembered that distant afternoon when his father had taken him to the middle of a paper...... in which they were influenced by Franz Kafka. in his work “The Metamorphosis”. Although Juan Rulfo also inspired García Márquez for his great masterpiece which earned him a Nobel Prize in Literature. With the method of "magical realism", García Márquez and Juan Rulfo created an environment where the reality of that time became fantastical, taking us, readers, into a unique and fictional world above reality.Bibliography.García Márquez , Gabriel, “One hundred years of solitude”, Buenos Aires, Arg., Sudamericana, 1967. Rulfo, Juan, “Pedro Páramo”, México DF, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1955. BBC Mundo. (2004). Alejo Carpentier celebrates his 100th birthday. March 23, 2014, BBC website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/misc/newsid_4126000/4126885.stmMaria Àngels Viladot Presas. (2010). Language and intergroup communication. Barcelona: UOC. (Inspired by Tajfel)