Does One Hundred Years of Solitude have a movie adaptation?
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Shuji Terayama's play "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (百年の孤独, originally performed by the Tenjo Sajiki theater troupe) and his film "Farewell to the Ark" (さらば箱舟) are loose (and not officially authorized) adaptations of the novel by García Márquez transplanted into the realm of Japanese culture and history.
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While "One Hundred Years of Solitude" has had a large effect on the literary world and is the author's best-selling and most translated work, there have been no movies produced of it as García Márquez never agreed to sell the rights to produce such a film.
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Although "One Hundred Years of Solitude" has come to be considered one of, if not the, most influential Latin American texts of all time, the novel and Gabriel García Márquez have both received occasional criticisms. Stylistically, Harold Bloom remarked that "My primary impression, in the act of rereading "One Hundred Years of Solitude", is a kind of aesthetic battle fatigue, since every page is rammed full of life beyond the capacity of any single reader to absorb... There are no wasted sentences, no mere transitions, in this novel, and you must notice everything at the moment you read it." Additionally, David Haberly alleges that García Márquez may have borrowed themes from several works, such as William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, Virginia Woolf's "", Defoe's "A Journal of the Plague Year", and Chateaubriand's "Atala". This, however, is not necessarily a negative criticism, as it involves the concept of intertextuality.
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Overall, there is an underlying pattern of Latin American history in "One Hundred Years of Solitude". It could be said that the novel is one of a number of texts that "Latin American culture has created to understand itself." In this sense, the novel can be conceived as a linear archive. This archive narrates the story of a Latin America discovered by European explorers, which had its historical entity developed by the printing press. The Archive is a symbol of the literature that is the foundation of Latin American history and also a decoding instrument. Melquíades, the keeper of the historical archive in the novel, represents both the whimsical and the literary. Finally, "the world of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is a place where beliefs and metaphors become forms of fact, and where more ordinary facts become uncertain."
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (, ) is a landmark 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founded the town of Macondo, a fictitious town in the country of Colombia.
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"One Hundred Years of Solitude" has received universal recognition. The novel has been awarded Italy's Chianciano Award, France's Prix de Meilleur Livre Etranger, Venezuela's Rómulo Gallegos Prize, and the United States' Books Abroad/Neustadt International Prize for Literature. García Márquez also received an honorary LL.D. from Columbia University in New York City. These awards set the stage for García Márquez's 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature. The novel topped the list of books that have most shaped world literature over the last 25 years, according to a survey of international writers commissioned by the global literary journal "Wasafiri" as a part of its 25-anniversary celebration.
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Since it was first published in May 1967 in Buenos Aires by Editorial Sudamericana, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" has been translated into 37 languages and has sold more than 30 million copies. The novel, considered García Márquez's "magnum opus", remains widely acclaimed and is recognized as one of the most significant works in the Spanish literary canon.
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According to Antonio Sacoto, professor at the City College of the City University of New York, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is considered as one of the five key novels in Hispanic American literature (together with "El Señor Presidente", "Pedro Páramo", "La Muerte de Artemio Cruz", and "La ciudad y los perros"). These novels, representative of the boom allowed Hispanic American literature to reach the quality of North American and European literature in terms of technical quality, rich themes, and linguistic innovations, among other attributes.
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A dominant theme in "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is the inevitable and inescapable repetition of history in Macondo. The protagonists are controlled by their pasts and the complexity of time. Throughout the novel the characters are visited by ghosts. "The ghosts are symbols of the past and the haunting nature it has over Macondo. The ghosts and the displaced repetition that they evoke are, in fact, firmly grounded in the particular development of Latin American history". "Ideological transfiguration ensured that Macondo and the Buendías always were ghosts to some extent, alienated and estranged from their own history, not only victims of the harsh reality of dependence and underdevelopment but also of the ideological illusions that haunt and reinforce such social conditions."
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"One Hundred Years of Solitude" is the story of seven generations of the Buendía Family in the town of Macondo. The founding patriarch of Macondo, José Arcadio Buendía, and Úrsula Iguarán, his wife (and first cousin), leave Riohacha, Colombia, after Arcadio kills Prudencio Aguilar after a cockfight, for suggesting Arcadio was impotent. One night of their emigration journey, while camping on a riverbank, José Arcadio Buendía dreams of "Macondo", a city of mirrors that reflected the world in and about it. Upon awakening, he decides to establish Macondo at the riverside; after days of wandering the jungle, José Arcadio Buendía's founding of Macondo is utopic.
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