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This 6 page report discusses Garcia Marquez’s
great novel published in 1967 in the context of the violence and
power it portrays. Such images allow the reader the opportunity
to understand the ways in which violence, solitude, and the
overpowering human need for love are key concerns in the writing
of Garcia Marquez. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_BW100sol.rtf
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in the writing of Garcia Marquez. Bibliography lists 8 sources. BW100sol.rtf Violence and Power as Shown in "100 Years of Solitude"
By: C.B. Rodgers - November 2001 -- for more information on using this paper properly! Introduction Nobel laureate (1982) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
spends a great deal of his time in Cartagena, Colombia which is the colonial and Caribbean city where the Foundation for a New Ibero-American Journalism is located and conducts most
of its activities. He founded the organization in 1995 to rejuvenate journalism in the northern regions of the South American continent (Paternostro 43). "He wants to teach young Latin
American journalists to think and write in the style he once learned in the newsroom next to the printing press, drinking at a nearby bar. Journalism, for him, is about
listening to what the tape recorder does not pick up" (Paternostro 48). Throughout his writing, not just in "One Hundred Years of Solitude," Gabriel Garcia Marquez presents a myriad
of representations of violence, solitude, and the overpowering human need for love. Regardless of the specificity of the story Garcia Marquez is telling, the generality of it is that in
the midst of brutality, magic still exists and in the never-ending search for power -- personal, political, international -- the essence of self and personal identity is lost in the
determination to have and control more. In "One Hundred Years of Solitude," the reader is led to understand how such machinations are pointless yet carry change with them as surely
as if they were enormous bombs being dropped on people (living in Macondo) from the skies. In the novel, cruelty, collapse, intense despair, and unexpectedly destructive irrational and inexplicable violence
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