Talk:Macondo

I don't get what it means

 * Which aspect of the article is confusing? It is a fictional town which appears in a particular novel.  The article then goes on to describe the town, from the details given in that novel.  Warofdreams talk 09:24, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Moreover, I think that Macondo is just a fictional village in a novel that has its own article. So, I think that the few lines there could be enough to consider it as an article (and not just a stub); otherwise, it could be merged to the One hundred years of solitude article. User:Gala.martin
 * It looks clear to me, even if the second sentence (In the narrative...) is probably too long. The part "the town began to empty, similar to the Buendía home." does not sound as good english to me. Anyway, I am not an english-speaking native, and am not sure it is uncorrect (something like "the town began to empty, and the Buendía home as well" should be better, anyway).

The town actually appears in several of his books. It could probably be expanded sufficiently to merit its own article, rather than merging. Warofdreams talk 22:38, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Perhaps confusion stems from Macondo being described as a fictional Colombian town - it is a fictional town, supposed by García Márquez's critics to be a re-imagined Aracataca, which indeed is a Colombian town. Part of the significance of Macondo is its non-location, or non-specificity: it could arguably be any town anywhere in Latin America, which I think is the point. If nobody minds I will rearrange the first two paragraphs to make it clear that one town is a fiction, the other real, and that the link between them is hypothesised by literary critics. 58.108.32.74 09:49, 26 August 2006 (UTC)kaele


 * jungle? --Don Quijote&#39;s Sancho 03:06, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Inspired by Faulkner?
Márquez himself said that the fictional town idea was not inspired by Faulkner's works, because he never even read a single Faulkner piece before writing his first novel. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Fgi (talk • contribs) 12:46, 21 April 2007 (UTC).


 * It would be interesting to know, when and where Marquez said this... --TGG 21:17, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

It should be mentioned that there exists a village in Colombia, also along the river Magdalena and also near Santa Marta with the name Macondo. It is in fact quite near Aracataca, the town that the fictional Macondo refers to. Why should Garcia Marquez choose a neighbouring town to his home town as a fictional setting? Aratacata and Macondo are very much alike. Is a town fictional if it really exists and is very much like the one described in "One hundred years of solitude"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 105.236.7.215 (talk) 08:08, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

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Macondo is also a real town
The disambiguation page for Macondo (which lacks a talk page where I can make this comment) should mention the real town of Macondo, Colombia, which lies just north of Gabriel Márquez's hometown of Aracataca. There is probably an interesting story of why it was given that name. 24.20.10.177 (talk) 19:05, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
 * The disambiguation page DOES have a talk page. There is no article for a Macondo, Colombia. Are you sure it really exists, with that spelling? Bkatcher (talk) 22:29, 31 December 2022 (UTC)