One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez By far, Garcia Márquez's most acclaimed work is Cien Anos de Soledad or One Hundred Years of Solitude. As Regina Janes states, "her fellow novelists recognized the novel as a brilliant evocation of many of their concerns: a 'total novel' that treated Latin America socially, historically, politically, mythically, and epically, which was at simultaneously accessible and intricate." , realistic and aware, fictitious self-referential." <4> In it the totality of Latin American society and history is expressed. At first reading, the novel seems to tell the regional history of the city of Macondo and of the numerous generations of Buendia who they live. This local chronicle, however, is representative of the history of Colombia and Latin America in general, moving from the mythical pre-conquest time to that of history marked by "endless civil wars, dictators, coups d'état. brief resurgences of rule democracy, social revolutions that promised much and were betrayed by the architects of the revolution or aborted by the prompt arrival of the American Marines or CIA funds to finance the counter-revolution. <5> The Spanish conquest is represented by the 15th century Spanish copper medallion and shipwrecked galleon. A series of contacts with native Indians and black slaves followed, and the civil wars characteristic of post-independence Latin America soon began. The Americans soon take over, representing modern twentieth-century Western imperialism. Some of the events that take place in the novel's plot are taken directly from real events, such as the arrival of the banana company and the massacre of its workers. Yet while the story of... is half paper. ..... history and the novel," Latin American Perspectives 11.3 (1975): 100.7 Fanny Carrion de Fierro, "Cien Anos de Soledad, Historia y Mito de lo Americano," Lectura de Garcia Marquez (Doce Estudios), ed . Manuel Corrales Pascual (Quito: Centro de Publicaciones de la Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Ecuador, 1975) 185.8 Taylor, 104.9 Janes, 56.10 Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude, trans. York: Avon Books, 1970) 227.11 Carogne de Fierro, 187.12 Minta, 164.13 Ibid, 169.14 Taylor, 107.15 Minta, 170.16 Ibid, 171.17 Ibid, 17218 Carrion de Fierro, 189.19 Janes, 53.20 Marquez, 276.21 Janes, 65.22 Lois Parkinson Zamora, Writing the Apocalypse: Historical Vision in Contemporary American Fiction e Latin American, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989) 25-51.