A History of the Suffering of Loneliness in the Human Mind - García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

Reluctantly finished reading Márquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude", the recommended book review could not be written for a while. On the one hand, the work itself is difficult to understand, and the rough reading is like a blind person touching an elephant, only half-solved; on the other hand, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is a best-selling book that has dominated the list for a long time, and there are many people who read it, and each reader has his own understanding. Anyway, let's talk about my personal understanding.

"One Hundred Years of Solitude" is a complicated and huge century-old family history, a history of the rise and fall of places with a clear context. In the torrent of time, the individual seems so powerless in the ups and downs of the background. Weak and petite, the traces of grief that have been taken away from life, lonely and persistent.

The Lolita of Reme Tess, who died unprovoked, was preserved as a grandmother, and rebecca, who was still biting her finger, was so persistent that she refused to die. Arcadio, who experienced riots that claimed 3,000 lives, was not trusted by anyone. They are all heterogeneous to the crowd, lonely to the extreme.

Throughout the book, everyone is a lonely individual. From the first José Arcadio of the family to the last Aureliano with the distinct characteristics of the family. From the arrogant and courageous Admiral Aureliano to the energetic and ordinary and great old mother of Ursula, from the beautiful girl Reme Tess, who is pure as an angel, to one of the twins who likes to be lively and marries two wives.

These people, from birth, are lonely, and gradually, some people lose themselves in loneliness, such as the first Hosse Arcadio and Meme; some people lose themselves in the fight against loneliness, such as Rebecca; some people are soberly aware of their loneliness but cannot do anything, such as Alamata; some people are lonely all their lives without knowing it, such as Ursula, such as the pretty girl Reme Tess; and there are people who repent at the end of life, but it is too late, such as my general Aureliano.

The Bredia family is fighting time with loneliness, and the lives, names, and personalities of each of their generations are strikingly similar. Time seemed to them to not exist, or rather, time was spinning in circles. But time is not that we want to ignore it and it does not exist, on the contrary, it is omnipresent. So, the Bredia family failed, and this family will never appear.

But time is not terrible, because we have loneliness, and we let loneliness flow through time.

What the novel presents is a modern myth built on a symbolic framework of repeating cycles in the past, present, and future. The repetition of the cycle of time makes the novel imply countless large and small circular circles, all people and things are embedded in these circles, and the novel becomes a magical world.

Many people can't read this book because it requires not only literary literacy, but also knowledge of Latin American history. A seemingly absurd family is actually a reflection of latin American history. The loneliness and suffering of this family are also the suffering and blood and tears of the Latin American people.

When you really understand that period of history, you will find that "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is a South American epic that refracts through the mirror of haha, and what he reveals is not a simple life, but something deeper under the surface, people who are not understood, forces that cannot be united.

This loneliness runs through the book. As the book concludes, "A family that has suffered a hundred years of loneliness is destined not to appear on the earth for a second time." This is precisely the author's hope or desperation for his birthplace.