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One Hundred Years of Solitude

1967 novel by Gabriel García Márquez

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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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, founded the fictitious town of Macondo. The novel is often cited as one of the supreme achievements in world literature. It was recognized as one of the most important works of the Spanish language during the 4th International Conference of the Spanish Language held in Cartagena de Indias in March 2007.

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“One Hundred Years of Solitude” enters the record as 1967 novel by Gabriel García Márquez. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hundred, Years and Solitude can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1967, 2007—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hundred, Years and Solitude.
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“One Hundred Years of Solitude” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Hundred, Years and Solitude provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1967 and 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from “One Hundred Years of Solitude” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.