Abstract
In his One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), the Latin American writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez depicts the Buendia family, whose members seem to have a great difficulty marrying and developing sexual relationships with characters outside this family. Marquez portrays these characters as such in order to represent incest and connect it with the social behavior of individuals. The present paper, then, is an attempt to prove that through depicting male as well as female characters as unable to establish healthy relationships with people outside the family, Marquez seems to show that social isolation is one of the key causes to social aberration.
Highlights
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (b. 1927) is a Colombian novelist who is famous of mixing reality with fantasy
Most of his works became well known of their magical realist topics. His One Hundred Years of Solitude is a novel in which he depicts the lives of seven generations of the same family, the Buendia, who live in Macondo
The present paper, is an attempt to prove that through depicting male as well as female characters as unable to establish healthy relationships with people outside the family, Marquez seems to show that social isolation is one of the key causes to social aberration
Summary
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (b. 1927) is a Colombian novelist who is famous of mixing reality with fantasy. Most of his works became well known of their magical realist topics His One Hundred Years of Solitude is a novel in which he depicts the lives of seven generations of the same family, the Buendia, who live in Macondo. The members of this family lead an isolated life because they establish healthy relationships, the sexual ones in particular, with other people outside their family. The present paper, is an attempt to prove that through depicting male as well as female characters as unable to establish healthy relationships with people outside the family, Marquez seems to show that social isolation is one of the key causes to social aberration
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