How to Read One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Video Description

📚 Read the Great Books with the Hardcore Literature Book Club: https://www.patreon.com/hardcoreliterature ———————————— 🎙️ https://open.spotify.com/show/70IZA24... (Subscribe to the Hardcore Literature Podcast on iTunes & Spotify) 📖 My review of the books we read in 2024: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3YaRbIa2VPdJzXDlOA947v?si=574297e2c57d4910 Hardcore Literature Lecture Series ———————————— 📔Contents Page: https://cutt.ly/CmNhRY3 🎖️ War and Peace: https://cutt.ly/U3nzGma 🎭 Shakespeare Project: https://cutt.ly/B3nxHH7 🐳 Moby Dick: https://cutt.ly/K3nzVKf ☄️ Blood Meridian: https://cutt.ly/P3nz6Qp 🍂 Wuthering Heights: https://cutt.ly/N3nxxYt 🇮🇪 Ulysses: https://cutt.ly/x3nxQmN 🚂 Anna Karenina: https://cutt.ly/vmNhAWv 💀 Crime and Punishment: https://cutt.ly/rmNhFt5 ⚓ Persuasion: https://cutt.ly/amNhX7b 🎠 Don Quixote: https://cutt.ly/cmNjoK4 🇫🇷 Les Misérables: https://cutt.ly/J3YixoA 📖 Middlemarch Serial Reading: https://tinyurl.com/45rv965c ———————————— 0:00 why read One Hundred Years of Solitude? 1:00 One Hundred Years of Solitude Netflix review 2:00 required reading for the entire human race 3:00 how to read Gabriel García Márquez 5:00 welcome to the world of Macondo 6:00 a multi-generational family saga 7:00 history as a cyclical nightmare 8:00 the fantastical nature of the narrative 8:30 Nobel Prize for Literature 1982 9:00 how did the story first come to life? 10:00 life and writing of García Márquez 11:00 appreciating the opening line together 12:00 ‘many years later, as he faced the firing squad’ 13:00 Gabriel García Márquez writing routine 13:30 the influence of grandmother’s stories 15:00 communal reading and reading aloud 17:00 how the novel became a bestseller 19:00 what does magical realism mean? 20:00 romance in the literary tradition 20:30 three horsemen of the Renaissance 21:30 influence of Cervantes’ Don Quixote 23:00 appreciating the birth of realism 25:00 alchemical beauty of magical realism 26:00 magical realism’s generic definition 26:30 influence of Franz Kafka’s stories 27:00 influence of Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo 28:00 how to appreciate magical realism 29:00 fiction as lie that points to the truth 30:00 symbolism as literalising metaphors 31:00 magical realism speaks truth to power 33:00 genre as historical and political lens 34:00 gateway to Latin American Literature 36:00 how social revolution connects writers 37:00 the Boom in Latin American Literature 37:00 thinking about the Cuban Revolution 38:00 Gregory Rabassa recommended translation 40:00 Latin Literature during the Cold War 41:00 García Márquez and Fidel Castro 42:00 García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa 42:30 how history repeats through revolution 43:30 Latin American Nobel Prize winners 45:00 the influence of Jorge Luis Borges 46:00 compression and subtext in Solitude 46:30 the tradition of the short story form 47:00 cognitive power in Borges’ stories 47:30 appreciating ‘The Library of Babel’ 48:30 non-linear cyclical narrative techniques 49:00 the influence of William Faulkner 49:30 Yoknapatawpha County vs Macondo 50:30 on modernism vs post-modernism 52:00 strange temporality in the 20th century 53:00 relative and subjective nature of time 54:00 why you need to read this novel slowly 55:00 great literature puts life in perspective 57:00 classical allusions and biblical archetypes 59:00 influence of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex 1:00:00 theme of fate and future already written 1:01:00 Colombian and Latin American History 1:02:00 Macondo as microcosm for Colombia 1:04:00 early settlements in Colombia 1:05:00 why the characters have the same names 1:06:00 la violencia in Colombian history 1:07:00 liberal-conservative thousand days war 1:07:30 inspiration for Colonel Aureliano Buendía 1:09:30 on the banana massacre of 1928 1:12:00 selective memory and forgetting history 1:13:00 two reader responses to magical realism 1:14:00 what if you dislike magical realism? 1:15:00 the sublime payoff in this story 1:16:00 the aspect I value most about this novel 1:17:00 estrangement and defamiliarisation 1:18:00 how to read fiction scripturally 1:19:00 recommended pacing for this novel 1:19:30 reading Ovid’s Metamorphoses together 1:20:00 Gabriel García Márquez book club lectures 1:20:30 expressing my deepest gratitude for you 1:21:00 your experience with this masterpiece?