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''One Hundred Years of Solitude'' () is a 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founds the town of Macondo, the metaphoric Colombia. The magical realist style and thematic substance of ''One Hundred Years of Solitude'' established it as an important, representative novel of the literary Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s,〔("One Hundred Years at Forty" ) (December 2007) ''The Walrus'', Canada〕 which was stylistically influenced by Modernism (European and North American) and the Cuban ''Vanguardia'' (Avant-Garde) literary movement. ''One Hundred Years of Solitude'' was first published in Spanish in 1967; it has subsequently has been translated into thirty-seven languages and has sold more than 30 million copies.〔("Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez dies" (17 April 2014) BBC )〕〔 The novel remains widely acclaimed today, and is considered by many to be Márquez's masterpiece. ==Biography and publication== Gabriel García Márquez was one of the four Latin American novelists first included in the literary Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s; the other three writers were the Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa, the Argentine Julio Cortázar, and the Mexican Carlos Fuentes. ''One Hundred Years of Solitude'' (1967) earned García Márquez international fame as a novelist of the magical realism movement within the literature of Latin America.〔"The Modern World". Web, www.themodernword.com/gabo/. April 17, 2010〕 As a metaphoric, critical interpretation of Colombian history, from foundation to contemporary nation, ''One Hundred Years of Solitude'' presents different national myths through the story of the Buendía family,〔McMurray, George. "Reality and Myth in García Márquez’ ‘Cien años de soledad’". The Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Dec., 1969), pp. 175–181〕 whose spirit of adventure places them amidst the important actions of Colombian historical events — such as the Liberal political reformation of a colonial way of life, and the nineteenth-century arguments for and against it; the arrival of the railway to a mountainous country; the Thousand Days' War (Guerra de los Mil Días, 1899–1902); the corporate hegemony of the United Fruit Company ("American Fruit Company" in the story); the cinema; the automobile; and the military massacre of striking workers as government–labour relations policy. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「One Hundred Years of Solitude」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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