One Hundred Years of Solitude: A Masterwork of World Literature
Lifelong Learning

Grasp the beauty and magic of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. This book offers one of the most moving, engaging, and entertaining reading experiences you'll ever have. Hugely influential and important, this book was a foundational text of magical realism, and it inaugurated "the Latin American boom" in mid-twentieth-century global literature. We will explore Garcia Marquez's wonderful novel in its literary, cultural, and historical contexts -- as a radical new vision of what the novel can do, as a study of the intertwining of family and history, and an exploration of living in the crosscurrents of time, memory, dream, and desire. Most importantly, the class will provide a chance to slowly read, or reread, one of the great masterworks of world literature.