Invitation to World Literature
One Hundred Years of Solitude One Hundred Years of Solitude – Connections

In the Images of World Literature slideshow, you saw images inspired by One Hundred Years of Solitude. Here at Connections, you can find varied interpretations, analyses, and performances of the story of the Buendias and Macondo.
Movies/Popular Interpretations/TV/Performance
- An audiobook read by the acclaimed actor F. Murray Abraham comes with a study guide.
http://www.amazon.com/Gabriel-Garcia-Márquez-Hundred-Solitude/dp/1570421129/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1267109121&sr=1-1 - A web page of information about film versions of Márquez’s works.
http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/gabo_films_movies.html
Music
- American guitarist Bill Frisell included a song inspired by and titled “Remedios the Beauty” on his 1988 album Lookout for Hope.
http://www.amazon.com/Lookout-Hope-Bill-Frisell/dp/B00000DTFH/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1267110238&sr=1-1 - American composer Roger Reynolds’s 1979 multimedia electroacoustical work “Voicespace: Eclipse” uses text on slides from One Hundred Years of Solitude.
http://www.amazon.com/Voicespace-Philip-Larson/dp/B00000IO9P/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1267110198&sr=1-1 - Venezuelan musician Juan Vicente Torrealba wrote a merengue called “Macondo.”
http://www.amazon.com/Universal-Masters-Collection-Torrealba-Cantantes/dp/B000VOISIG/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1267110103&sr=8-7
Art
- Colombian artist Pedro Villalba Ospina has created illustrations inspired by the novel. An article about his work and a video interview are available at http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/colombia/100107/gabriel-garcia-marquez-artist
Books/Articles
- Michael Bell, Gabriel García Márquez: Solitude and Solidarity, St. Martin’s Press, 1993.
http://www.amazon.com/Gabriel-Garcia-Márquez-Solidarity-Novelists/dp/0312099886/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268069060&sr=1-1 - Gene H. Bell-Villada, García Márquez: The Man and His Work, UNC Press, 1990.
http://www.amazon.com/Garcia-Márquez-Man-Work-Second/dp/0807865257/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268069086&sr=1-2 - Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions, Penguin, 1998. A major precursor to García Márquez in Latin American writing: resonant, enigmatic short tales that describe imaginary texts and impossible events in deadpan style.
http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Fictions-Jorge-Luis-Borges/dp/0140286802/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268069129&sr=1-1 - William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!, first published in 1936. Faulkner’s classic dynastic tale was an important inspiration for García Márquez’s Macondo.
http://www.amazon.com/Absalom-Corrected-Text-Modern-Library/dp/0679600728/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268069152&sr=1-1 - Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006. This great 1975 novel is about an aging dictator.
http://www.amazon.com/Autumn-Patriarch-Gabriel-Garcia-Márquez/dp/0060882867/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268069234&sr=1-1 - Gabriel García Márquez, Living to Tell the Tale, Vintage Press, 2002. The author’s haunting autobiography of his early years.
http://www.amazon.com/Living-Tell-Gabriel-Garcia-Márquez/dp/140003454X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268069254&sr=1-1 - George R. McMurray, Critical Essays on Gabriel García Márquez, G. K. Hall, 1987.
http://www.amazon.com/Critical-Essays-Gabriel-Márquez-Literature/dp/0816188343/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268069304&sr=1-1 - Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, The Fragrance of Guava: Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez, Faber and Faber, 1998.
http://www.amazon.com/Fragrance-Guava-Conversations-Maarquez-Caribbean/dp/0571193269/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268069335&sr=1-1 - Ruben Pelayo, Gabriel García Márquez: A Critical Companion, Greenwood, 2001.
http://www.amazon.com/Gabriel-Garc%C3%83%C2%AD-M%C3%83%C2%A1rquez-Companions-Contemporary/dp/0313312605 - Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children, Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006. A major work of contemporary India, inspired by the Latin American boom and particularly by One Hundred Years of Solitude.
http://www.amazon.com/Midnights-Children-Novel-Salman-Rushdie/dp/0812976533/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268069404&sr=1-1 - The Thousand and One Nights. A classic early example of nested stories-within-stories told in a style prefiguring García Márquez’s “magic realism.”
http://www.amazon.com/Arabian-Nights-Norton-Critical-Editions/dp/039392808X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1287011480&sr=1-1