Marquez's "100 Years Of Solitude" And Allende's "The House Of The Spirits": Satire
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Marquez's "100 Years of Solitude" and Allende's "The House of the Spirits":
A major preoccupation with contemporary South American novelists,
as seen with Gabriel Marquez's "100 years of solitude" and Isabelle
Allende's "The house of the spirits", is the traditional and long lasting
conflict betwee ....
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.... chose to examine them. When Marquez wrote his first works
Colombia suffered the second greatest American fratricidal war of the
twentieth century, as a result of the assassination of the popular Liberal
leader Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, in 1948. His novels examine in his words "…
motives for that violence." The importance of politics in the Novel is
reflected in the choice of title 100 years of solitude which correspond to
the 100 years between the formation of Colombia, in 1830 to 1930 when
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