Midnight’s Children
Salman Rushdie · Contemporary · Novel
Modern / Latin American Boom · Novel, magical realism
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez. Seven generations of the Buendía family repeat patterns of desire and violence in the mythical town of Macondo.
- Date
- 1967
- Origin
- Colombia
- Genre
- Novel, magical realism
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Length
- Long
- Collection
- The Western Canon
Subjects and themes
Why it matters
Seven generations of the Buendía family repeat patterns of desire and violence in the mythical town of Macondo.
This work is included in the collection on the basis of bloom / modern expanded canon. Its cataloged influence level is 5 out of 5.
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