García Márquez in writing
One Hundred Years of Solitude is a masterpiece of magic realist literature that depicts the legendary story of seven generations of the Buendía family and the centuries-long rise and fall of the Caribbean coastal town of Macondo, reflecting a century of latin America's turbulent history.
The works incorporate myths and legends, folk tales, religious allusions and other mysterious elements, skillfully blending reality and illusion, showing a magnificent imaginary world, and becoming one of the most important classic literary masterpieces of the 20th century. In 1982, Garcia Márquez won the Nobel Prize in Literature, establishing himself as a world-class literary master, in large part because of the great influence of "One Hundred Years of Solitude".
Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1927 in the seaside town of Alacataca, Magdalena, Colombia. Childhood lived with maternal grandparents. In 1936, he moved to Sucre with his parents. In 1947, he was admitted to the National University of Bogotá.
In 1948, he dropped out of school due to the civil war and entered the press. In the 1950s, he began to publish literary works. Moved to Mexico in the early sixties. In 1967, he published "One Hundred Years of Solitude". He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.
Excerpts from famous quotations
1. All the splendor that has ever existed in life, after all, needs to be repaid with loneliness.
2) Wherever you go, you should remember that the past is false, that memory is an endless road, that all past springs cease to exist, and that even the toughest and most frantic love is ultimately a fleeting reality.
3) Even if we think that our feelings have dried up to give, there will always be a moment when something can pluck the strings of the depths of the soul; after all, we are not born to enjoy loneliness.
4. We tend to walk in the eternal journey of life, running in the ups and downs, nirvana in the setbacks, sorrows all over the body, and pain floating on the ground. We are tired, but we can't stop; we are bitter, but we can't avoid it.
5) What really matters in life is not what happens to you, but what you remember and how you remember it.
6. Next permanent ticket, board a train that never ends.
7, just feel that people's inner pain can not be said, many of people's measures are helpless, a hundred years of thoroughness, a hundred years of loneliness.
8. Parents are the curtains that separate us from death. You and death seem to be looking at something, there is no feeling, your parents are in the middle of you, until your parents die, you will face these things, otherwise the death you see is very abstract, you don't know. Relatives, friends, neighbors, generations apart, the pressure of their death is not so direct to you, parents are a curtain between you and death, blocking you a little, and the people closest to you will affect your view of life and death.
9 He is unaware of the subtle and heartbreaking destruction of time at home, which, after such a long day out, would feel like a disaster for anyone with a clear memory.
10 The secret of a happy old age is by no means anything else, but a decent agreement with loneliness.
11. Mediocrity drys your mind to the point where there is not a trace of moisture, and then glory plucks the strings of the deepest part of your soul.
12. The premonition always comes suddenly, as if a certain belief is born in an instant but cannot be captured.
13. The pendulum can make anything fly, but it can't make itself fly.
14. The past has gone forever, and complicity and communication have become hostile and silent.
15 We have been fighting for so many years, and everything is just to stop painting our house blue.
16 Death has nothing to do with him, but life has meaning to him.
17. The bitter laughter of the parties replaces the tears of the bystanders, and the pain of the "fool's" self-expression replaces the seemingly fair criticism and analysis of the "wise man", and can receive the objective effect of arousing the deep reflection of the group of fooled people.
18. What are you waiting for? Time has passed, that being said, but not so quickly. Wherever you go, you should remember that the past is false, that memory is an endless road, that all past springs are gone, and that even the toughest and most frantic love is ultimately a fleeting reality!
19. Many people choose to succumb to the charm of virtual reality and place their hearts on self-illusion, which is more comforting even if it is unrealistic.