Can you believe it? There is a kind of book, when you read it, many times feel boring, occasionally turn over in your spare time, at first it is just to pass the time, but when you finish reading, it will have a magical magic, let you shock, so that the heart can not be calmed for a long time;
A complex and bright mood like a haze can not be dissipated for a long time: the original novel can still be written like this, the original life is just like this;
It is not an exaggeration to say that this is the real brief history of humanity, as the founders of the family, José Arcadio Buendía and Ursula themselves are cousins, from the fear of giving birth to pig's tail offspring like their cousins, to avoiding their own offspring from giving birth to such children;
The family migrated to the ever-before-known swamps to settle down, and followed the instructions in the dream to call the land they had created, Macondo. Spend a hundred years of family rise and fall here;
Márquez describes the process of each generation from birth to death, tying each other but living unrelatedly;
01 Born lonely
There's a saying in Seattle, "Born lonely, this is the world." ”
I don't know whether it is the difference in foreign cultures or Márquez's deliberate avoidance, and it is rare to see too much communication between the members of the Buendia family in the whole book, as if everyone lives in their own world, and everyone lives at will;
From the first generation of Arcadia, because of his resentment towards his parents and his heart for being deceived by his lover, he quietly left the home where he was born and raised without warning;
However, in addition to the mother Ursula, the little Amaranda who was not long after the birth of the family, returned to Macondo after 5 months of searching for the traces of the gypsies;
After returning from many years, despite the opposition of the family, he was even expelled from the family and married rebecca, the adopted daughter of his parents. And eventually died in an accidental shooting;
Colonel Aureliano, the most famous of the family, fought 32 wars in his life, but each time ended in failure, and suffered 14 assassinations, 73 ambushes and one shooting, all of which survived;
Finally, as his father once did, he shut himself in the laboratory to make small goldfish from gold, and destroyed and redoed all 25 of them day after day until the demise of life;
Yet he did not wage those wars for some ideal, as everyone thought, nor did he give up the near victory out of exhaustion as everyone thought; but because he was a man who had been born without the ability to love.
As the daughter of the family, Amaranda's mother Ursula felt that she was the most gentle woman in the world, and she had the ability to love, but only "unisexual".
Pietro Crespi, the lover who had fought rebecca to the death, finally admired her tenderness as he wished, obsessed with her to the point of being unable to extricate himself, but chose to abandon him when he promised to marry her as soon as possible;
Later, everyone thought that Colonel Márquez would become her ultimate belonging, but after being proposed, Amaranda proposed to break up with her, and finally ended up alone;
From the second generation of Buendia, we can see that this family is always rendering the characteristics of loneliness in every life.
02 Loneliness is the background of life
All the background colors of the Life of the Buendía family all render the essence of loneliness, as if all feelings are buried in the deepest depths of the bottomless, no need to express, no way to talk.
A large family, never see the members of the family have a common communication or discussion on a certain matter, each of them as the king, hiding in their own loneliness to dominate a lifetime;
They make little goldfish, study parchment rolls, spin sweaters, they go away from home, they make love like crazy, they nibble on dirt. On the surface, it may seem so bland and even harmonious, but in fact everyone is going through a thrilling and arduous battle to resist and eliminate the loneliness of the heart.
"He [Arcadio] felt that he could no longer bear the cold noise of his waist and the air in his belly, could not bear the fear and confusion of longing, longed to escape, and longed to remain forever in this annoying silence and terrible loneliness."
"The taciturn Colonel Aureliano Buendía turned a blind eye to the renewed vitality of his home, and roughly understood that the secret of a happy old age was nothing more than an agreement with loneliness without loss of dignity."
"The world is nothing but something outside of the body, and her (Amaranta's) heart no longer fluctuates for any pain. She deeply regretted that she had not been able to attain such an understanding many years ago, when she had time to purify her memories, to rebuild the world in a new light, to calmly recall the lavender smell of Pietro Credia in the evening, and to rescue Rebecca from her miserable situation, not out of love or hate, but out of a deep understanding of loneliness. ”
"The lonely privilege that she (Rebecca) endured for years and endured so hard to win was never to be used in exchange for an old age disturbed by false and charming mercy."
Every member of the Buendia family is rendered by loneliness for a lifetime, especially the male members of the family, who finally have only two destinations, either dying or falling into the loneliness of being unable to extricate themselves.
Only then did the first member of the family be tied up in a tree and never leave until death; and the last person in the family grew a pig's tail and was finally eaten by ants and left with only a layer of skin.
Loneliness seems to be an eternal mark on the Buendia family.
03 All the splendor that has ever existed in life needs to be repaid with loneliness after all
A hundred years of family, a hundred years of loneliness, but a hundred years of rise and fall;
Suddenly feel that the small town of Macondo is a magical place, and it is mentioned at the end of the book that this is a city in the mirror, a city of mirages;
The author Márquez said, "It is not so much that Macondo is somewhere in the world, but rather a state of mind".
Although the vast majority of the depictions of Macondo are devoted to the Buendía family, there are fewer depictions of the town's public spaces.
The collective, social expression is weakened, while the mental states of the individual are infinitely amplified. It can be said that in Macondo, everyone is a lonely universe.
The town embraces all lonely souls and gives them the right to be alone; this is why the buendia family members who once left Macondo will eventually return to the town and end up alone;
For example, Arcadio, who seeks more exciting carnal desires, Colonel Aureliano, who somehow wags war, Amaranta, who refuses to be loved, Aureliano, who loves wine, and Arcadio, who strikes workers, and Arcadio, who strikes workers;
These members, who had left their homes in Buendia and even the small town of Macondo, returned to this lonely place to settle their souls after a brief past.
As the book says: All the brilliance that has ever existed in life needs to be repaid with loneliness after all;
04
The book "One Hundred Years of Solitude", it seems that no matter when, whose book list, if you don't bring this book, always feel that something is missing.
But it is also a good book that has been delayed because of its name, like a coat of painted gold, and if it is not patient enough, it is easy to ignore it.
But I suggest that even if you can't remember a certain plot in the book, occasionally turn it down in your spare time, and insist on seeing the end, you will be shocked;