Point of view We have an narrator, an omniscient one, who tries to describe as accurate as possible the feelings of the protagonists,

but the narrator maintains a certain detachment. Some critics are following Vargas Llosa' s opinion that Melquiades is the real narrator of the novel. Style Many critics have analy ed techniques such as narrative loops, enumeration, hyperbaton, coe!istence of the past and the present in "ey sentences all present in the boo". #he same Vargas Llosa spea"s about the technique used by the narrator in the first parahraph. $Muchos a%os despu&s, frente al pelot'n de fusilamiento, el coronel (ureliano )uend*a hab*a de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lollev' a conocer el hielo.+ ,$Many years later, facing the -ring squad, .olonel(ureliano )uend*a was to remember that remote afternoon when his father too" him to discover ice.+/ #his technique provides the narrator a watchtower from which he surveys and lin"s all the episodes of the novel. (t the same time, Marques uses long descriptive sentences that sometimes are hard to follow. 0t is interesting to observe were the clima! stri"es. Marque was fascinated with )arto"1s music. 2e often said that his favorite piece is )arto"1s third piano concerto. 0n the boo" the clima! lands at five3sevenths of the way through the boo", 4ust as )arto" would have done. Symbols 0t is interesting to observe the symbols of the name. (ureliano has in the root of his name aur, in Latin meaning gold, for he was an alchemist or at least he treid to be one. (lso the name (rcadio is a clear reference to (rcadia. Macondo is strongly related to 5den, because the novel tells the story of human"ind. (nother symbol in the novel is the railway. 6p to that point the Macondo was isolated by the civili ation. #he railway is a strong symbol of the modern world. (nother symbol in the novel is the )ible. #he novel itself is li"e the )ible. Li"e in the story from the )ible, where we have the story of man"ind, as we have said, here we have an allegory of the same "ind.

Themes Nostalgia - #here are some myths regarding the genesis of this novel. (ccording to Marque the decisive episode in his life as a writer is central theme of return, recovery of the past, nostalgia. (s Linda 2utcheon puts it, One hundred years of solitude is a historographical metafiction. 0t is widely ac"nowledged that nostalgia plays an important role in reconstruction of the past, e!actly as in this novel. )orn in (racataca, at one point in his life, Marque visited the village and found the village ruined by the passage of time. #he novel comes as a battle to recover the (racatca of his childhood from the ravages of time. 7ostalgia is portrayed in the characters too. 7ostalgia drives them to death. 6rsula the ultramodern woman $returns to the terminally decaying Macondo only to bleed to death after giving birth to the pig3tailed baby as the -rst such baby born to the family had died over one hundred years previously at the beginning of the whole cycle+ ,)loom8 9::/. Incest 5ven if the themes of power and solitude are the most used themes by Marques in all his wor"s, the theme of incest figures as a ma4or theme 4ust in One Hundred Years of Solitude. #his theme is strictly connected with other themes, such as freedom or destiny. 0n the boo" the themes of freedom or free will ,as it is described in )ible/ and destiny are two sides of the same coin. .hoosing something they will be obliged to suffer the outcome or their destiny, as in Oedipus Rex. Human isolation, solitude )uendias are a group of solitary individuals living together as strangers in the same house. Life for them is suffering; this is why a recurring motif in the boo" is withdrawn from the world in a symbolic retreat to the refuge of the womb. Solitude has different forms in the novel. Solitude is the e!istential manifest of every character and it is being made manifest in all sorts of way8 madness, power, etc, #hey become $accomplices in solitude,+ see" $consolation+ for solitude, become $lost in solitude,+ achieve $an honorable pact with solitude,+ and gain $the privileges of solitude.+ Circularity of time #he name in boo" are the same, from the first generation till the last one. #here are all "inds of events and characters that are repeated over and over again. (t one point in the novel 6rsula1 s view upon on time is $confirmed <=> that time was going a circle.+ ,Marque 8 ??@/

Death 6ntil Melquiade1s death, there is no death in Macondo. (s the characters encounter death, death will be their final isolation, a haunting isolation. Conclusion Since (ristotel we "now that literature is mimetic. )ut with this novel we find out that sometimes the reality is mimetic, it copies the literature. #he events are happening in the fictional Macondo. #oday, if you visit .olumbia, you will find the village in reality. Some persons had created Macondo from scratch as it is described by Marque .Cien aos de soledad was constantly in Aarc*a MBrque Cs mind for some -fteen years, since the time when he had tried unsuccessfully to write it and the mythical moment on the road to (capulco when he had the revelation that he should write it li"e his grandmother spo"e, and he closed himself into his Me!ico .ity Dat for a year and a half to write it. When as"ed what critics had most blatantly missed about his novel, Aarc*a MBrque answered8 $its main quality8 the authorCs immense compassion for all his poor creatures.+