Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude: Essays

Since its publication in 1967, One Hundred Years of Solitude has sold well over 10 million copies and earned its author, Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez, a host of awards—including the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. The novel has brought about comparisons to Cervantes, Faulkner, Woolf, and even the Bible. Learn more through some of the best criticism available on the novel. The title, Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.