Talk:One Hundred Years of Solitude/Archive 2

Adaptations section
Why is that note about film adaptations still there? There's a ton of reasons that Cien años should never be a film. The main one is that the whole point of the book is that it's Melquíades' scripture, while the other huge reason is that making a dramatic film would take away the "complete naturalness" or magical realism with which Marquez wrote. But above all, the bit about why a film should be made shouldn't be there anyway, since it is only an opinion, as is this little spiel. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.8.17.26 (talk) 23:06, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Shorter List 365
I plan to use these articles to add more to the subtitle of themes on the wiki article and the press release add under the books influence and symbolism in the book.

"The Solitude of Latin America", Nobel lecture by Gabriel García Márquez, 8 December, 1982

http://www.themodernword.com/gabo/gabo_nobel.html ( has the press release and noble prize speech on 100yrs)

"Ghosts, Metaphor and History in Tony Morrisson's Beloved and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude", by Daniel Erickson.

Resource Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) Title The Marquez Factor. Author Eyring, Teresa Add.Author / Editor Eyring, Teresa Citation American Theatre Sep2007, Vol. 24 Issue 7, p8-8 Year 2007

Resource Humanities Index (Wilson) Title Cien anos de soledad: the novel as myth and archive Author Gonzalez Echevarria, Roberto Citation MLN v. 99 (March 1984) p. 358-80 Year 1984

Resource Humanities Index (Wilson) Title Nietzsche, Borges, Garcia Marquez on the Art of Memory and Forgetting Author Bell, Michael Citation Romanic Review v. 98 no. 2/3 (March/May 2007) p. 123-34 Year 2007

Resource JSTOR Title Fiction as History: The Bananeras and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude Author Eduardo Posada-Carbo Citation Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 30, No. 2 pp. 395-414 Year 1998 Abstract This article, inspired by a TV interview with the Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez, revises the ways that the fiction in One Hundred Years of Solitude has been accepted as history.

Resource JSTOR Title Some Implications of Yellow and Gold in García Márquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude": Color Symbolism, Onomastics, and Anti-Idyll Author John Carson Pettey Citation Revista Hispánica Moderna, Año 53, No. 1 pp. 162-178 Year 2000

Resource Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) Title Talking with Shakira. Citation Time Atlantic 12/17/2007, Vol. 170 Issue 24, p17-17 Year 2007

Resource Humanities Index (Wilson) Title Bags of bones: a source for Cien anos de soledad Author Haberly, David T. Citation MLN v. 105 (March 1990) p. 392-4 Year 1990

Resource Humanities Index (Wilson) Title The dark side of magical realism: science, oppression, and apocalypse in One hundred years of solitude Author Conniff, Brian Citation Modern Fiction Studies v. 36 (Summer 1990) p. 167-79 Year 1990

Resource Web of Science (ISI) Title The quicksand of forgetfulness: semantic dementia in One Hundred Years of Solitude Author Rascovsky, K Add.Author / Editor Growdon, ME Add.Author / Editor Pardo, IR Add.Author / Editor Grossman, S Add.Author / Editor Miller, BL Citation BRAIN 132: 2609-2616 Part 9 SEP 2009 Year 2009

Resource Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) Title Magical Realism in the Americas: Politicised Ghosts in One Hundred Years of Solitude, The House of the Spirits , and Beloved. Author Hart, Stephen M. Add.Author / Editor Hart, Stephen M. Citation Journal of Iberian & Latin American Studies Dec2003, Vol. 9 Issue 2, p115-123 Year 2003 --Laurarosenielsen (talk) 00:55, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Note for MRR project team
hello :)--Laurarosenielsen (talk) 21:12, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Hey group of 365 MRR! im just trying to figure this thing all out :) im working through finding some great articles and helpful books. If anyone has an unreal idea for the page throw it out there..looking forward to it...thanks--Laurarosenielsen (talk) 21:17, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Span 365 group holla
In my search for magical realism sources, I came upon a book possibly more suitable for this section. It is available at Koerner library stacks:

"Ghosts, Metaphor and History in Tony Morrisson's Beloved and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude", by Daniel Erickson.

Good luck!

--Larodge (talk) 01:40, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Archived talk page and offer to help
I've archived the talk page so that it is easier to navigate (not so much scrolling, etc.). The students working on this article for WP:MRR should feel free to ask me any questions about researching and writing this article or editing on Wikipedia in general, as I am here to help. I look forward to seeing this article improve over the course of the semester! Awadewit (talk) 16:55, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Note for MRR project team
Hi group... so in looking at the one hundred years of solitude page.. it ALREADY is pretty awesome.. im sure we can make it better though.. haha. i thought about maybe we should think about subtitles that are a little more abstract. I was in Victoria this weekend... where I usually am on weekends.. and in checking out the library there I found a tone of articles, there were 165 but here are the bulk that seemed interesting but kinda different... for example there was a brief article on SHAKIRA and her influence from gm and one hundred years of solitude... it would be cool to see how the book does influence "pop culture"? I dont know.. what do you think. So below... i'll post what I found.. but Im not sure if this is how it's supposed to go. So if I'm wrong please someone let me know. thanks :O) OH and I also think the more modern the article the better :)

so now the ones being used are above!--Laurarosenielsen (talk) 00:47, 21 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Laura, this is a good start! I noticed that you mentioned "there were 165 but here are the bulk that seemed interesting but kinda different... for example there was a brief article on SHAKIRA and her influence from gm and one hundred years of solitude". As awesome as it would be to include every little detail about how 100YS has influenced culture, that is a daunting task! It is a good idea to think about conveying the basics of the book to readers first and finding sources that will help you do that. Think of writing an encyclopedia article this way: you are trying to explain a novel to someone who probably hasn't read it or hasn't read it carefully. What does that reader need to know to understand the book? Awadewit (talk) 02:27, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Note for MRR project team
hey again.. also .. the resources already on the page would be good to check out because there could be something missed! not to offend the original writers of the page :O) I didn't think it necessary to put them down on the talk page for us.--Laurarosenielsen (talk) 18:12, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

My Short and Long Lists
Here is my long list of sources that I have compiled for our project. The first six are books while the final eight are online articles I have found on JSTOR and Academic Search COmplete.

1.	García, Eligio. Tras Las Claves de Melquíades: historia de cien años de soledad. Bogota: Grupo Editorial Norma, 2001.

2.	Levine, Suzanne. El espejo hablado: un estudio de cien años de soledad. Caracas, Monte Avila Editores, 1975.

3.	Montaner, Maria. Guía para la lectura de “cien años de soledad”. Madrid: Editorial Castellana, c. 1987.

4.	Ludmer, Josefina. Cien años de soledad: una interpretación. Buenos Aires: Editorial Contemporáneo 1974, c. 1972.

5.	Mena, Lucila. La funcion de la historia de “cien años de soledad”. Barcelona: Plaza and Janes, c. 1979.

6.	Bravo, Jose Antonio. Lo real maravilloso en la narrativa latinoamericana actual: cien años de soledad, el reino de este mundo Pedro Paramo/Jose Antonio Bravo. Lima, Editoriales Unidas, 1978.

7.	Echevarría, Roberto González. "Cuarenta años después. (Spanish)." PRL, La Primera Revista Latinoamericana de Libros 1, no. 2 (December 2007): 3-5. Academic Search Complete, EBSCOhost (accessed January 21, 2010).

8.	Monet-Viera, Molly. "Brujas, putas y madres: el poder de los márgenes en La Celestina y Cien años de soledad. (Spanish)." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 77, no. 3 (July 2000): 127-146. Academic Search Complete, EBSCOhost (accessed January 21, 2010).

9.	Mora-Cruz, Gabriela. “Cien años de soledad”. Hispania. Vol. 51, No. 4 (Dec., 1968), pp. 914-919. http://www.jstor.org/stable/338660.

10.	Cueva, Augustin. “Para una interpretacion sociologica de "Cien anos de soledad". Revista Mexicana de Sociología. Vol. 36, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1974), pp. 59-76. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3539373.

11.	Haberly, David. “Bags of Bones: A Source for Cien años de soledad”. MLN. Vol. 105, No. 2, Hispanic Issue (Mar., 1990), pp. 392-394. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2905302.

12.	Echevarría, Roberto González. “Cien años de soledad: The Novel as Myth and Archive”. MLN. Vol. 99, No. 2, Hispanic Issue (Mar., 1984), pp. 358-380. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2906193.

13.	McMurray, George. “Reality and Myth in Garcia Marquez’ ‘Cien años de soledad’”. The Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Dec., 1969), pp. 175-181. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1346518.

14.	Joeck, Lois Marie. “Cien años de soledad: The End of the Book and the Beginning of Writing”. Hispania, Vol. 74, No. 1 (Mar., 1991), pp. 50-56. http://www.jstor.org/stable/344533.

Here is the short list of items that I think will be most useful after having looked at the weaknesses and strengths of the article.

Books: 1.	Levine, Suzanne. El espejo hablado: un estudio de cien años de soledad. Caracas, Monte Avila Editores, 1975. 2.	Mena, Lucila. La funcion de la historia de “cien años de soledad”. Barcelona: Plaza and Janes, c. 1979.

Articles: 1.	Haberly, David. “Bags of Bones: A Source for Cien años de soledad”. MLN. Vol. 105, No. 2, Hispanic Issue (Mar., 1990), pp. 392-394.

2.	Echevarría, Roberto González. “Cien años de soledad: The Novel as Myth and Archive”. MLN. Vol. 99, No. 2, Hispanic Issue (Mar., 1984), pp. 358-380. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2906193.

3.	McMurray, George. “Reality and Myth in Garcia Marquez’ ‘Cien años de soledad’”. The Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Dec., 1969), pp. 175-181. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1346518.

4.	Joeck, Lois Marie. “Cien años de soledad: The End of the Book and the Beginning of Writing”. Hispania, Vol. 74, No. 1 (Mar., 1991), pp. 50-56. http://www.jstor.org/stable/344533.

Has anyone talked to the fourth member of our group? I'll send him/her a message right now to make sure that nothing he/she hasn't switched groups or dropped the class or something.

--Aellingboe (talk) 05:50, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

MLA database
Have you checked the MLA database for sources? It is the primary resource for literature scholarship. I see that there are 432 entries for the keyword "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Awadewit (talk) 02:15, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Patrick's Update
Hi group, first: I apologize for not being on the ball with this project. I know that not doing my part affects you all a lot, so once again, I apologize for that. I was going through some pretty bad personal issues in the past month and really had my mind off school. HOWEVER, I feel like I'm doing better now, and so, will do my best to help out with this project.

Here are some books/articles that I found interesting, they are about different topics related to Cien Anos de Soledad:

Marquez:

"Gabriel García Márquez : a critical companion" -Rubén Pelayo.

"El arte de leer a García Márquez" -Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda.

Cuba:

"García Márquez and Cuba : a study of its presence in his fiction, journalism, and cinema" -Harley D. Oberhelman.

Time:

"Tiempo y narración : enfoques de la temporalidad en Borges, Carpentier, Cortázar y García Márquez" -Ramírez i Molas, Pere

"A study of time in three novels : Under the Volcano, One hundred years of solitude, and Gravity’s rainbow" -Linda Sheidler Doyle

Reality/Magical:

"Gabriel García Márquez : mito y realidad de América" -Jaime Mejía Duque.

Indigenous Views:

"La transposicion de fuentes indigenas en Cien años de soledad" -Jay Corwin.

Patricklivemon (talk) 08:21, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Improving the Article
Hey guys,

So I was looking a little more closely at the One Hudnred Years of Solitude Article and I noticed that almost all of it is about the characters in the book, so I was thinking that we should focus on improving the plot summary especially. Also, I was thinking that it would be good if we worked a little more on the book's influence on writing today, and maybe we should include a small section on magical realism to introduce the average person to the concept. Good luck with your midterms!

--Aellingboe (talk) 01:46, 5 February 2010 (UTC)


 * Those are good ideas - cutting down the "Characters" section will also be necessary. Looking at featured articles on novels will also help you, as you will be able to see the kinds of sections and the balance achieved in high-quality articles. See, for example, El Señor Presidente and The General in His Labyrinth (both articles written by previous groups of 's students). Awadewit (talk) 02:18, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Alex Ellingboe's Annotated Bibliography
Alex Ellingboe 43298074 Annotated Bibliography for Cien años de soledad

1. Echevarría, Roberto González. “Cien años de soledad: The Novel as Myth and Archive”. MLN. Vol. 99, No. 2, Hispanic Issue (Mar., 1984), pp. 358-380. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2906193.

In this article, Echevarría argues that there is an overall pattern of Latin American history lurking in the background of Cien años de soledad that seem to refer to real people and happenings. For instance, the city of Macondo in the novel is ruled by a de jure aristocracy that is much like the ruling classes of many Latin American countries. He cites numerous other examples from the novel in order to argue that Cien años de soledad is one of a number of texts that “Latin American culture has created to understand itself”. I plan on using this aspect of the article to contribute to the section of the wikipedia page regarding the novel’s importance or impact on the Latin American community. Another interesting aspect of this article is Echevarría’s discussion of time, and it’s seemingly discontinuous, irregular, and yet, cyclical nature. His points regarding this subject will also be beneficial to the time section of the wikipedia article.

2. McMurray, George. “Reality and Myth in Garcia Marquez’ ‘Cien años de soledad’”. The Bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Dec., 1969), pp. 175-181. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1346518.

In this article, McMurray argues that Marquez’ Colombian roots influenced his writing of Cien años de soledad, and that this is evident in the different myths found throughout the book. Furthermore, there is a fusion of Colombian and Latin American reality with regional myths. The differences between the carefree culture of the Coastal region of Colombia and the conservative sentiments of the interior are displayed many times, and the fantastic aspects of the novel are derived from myths prevalent in the coastal region to which he is native. McMurray also deals with the issue of time in the novel and argues that the “cien años” represents several centuries of Latin American history compressed into a more manageable text. McMurray’s first point will be helpful in contributing to the influences behind Marquez’ work, while his discussion of time will provide helpful insight into the importance of the novel in the Latin American community and the temporal issues that abound in the book itself.

3. Gullon, Ricardo. “Review: Gabriel Garcia Marquez & the Lost Art of Storytelling”. Diacritics, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Autumn, 1971), pp. 27-32. http://www.jstor.org/stable/464556

In this article, Gullon deals with the issues of tone and time in Cien años de soledad. He argues that by maintaining the same tone throughout the novel, Marquez makes the extraordinary blend with the ordinary, and that his condensation of and lackadaisical manner of describing events causes the extraordinary to seem less remarkable than it actually is, thereby creating perfectly blending the real with the magical. He also argues that maintaining the same narrator throughout the novel familiarizes the reader with his voice and causes he or she to become accustomed to the extraordinary events, which he is describing. His arguments on these topics will be useful in contributing to the sections on time and perhaps a new one on the tone of the book. 4. Wood, Michael. Garcia Marquez 100 Years of Solitude. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. This book deals with a wide range of topics concerning Cien años de soledad. First and foremost Michael Wood discusses the historical context leading up to the novel and the aspects of Colombian culture that are incorporated subtly in the text. He states that a large amount of Colombian history and political strife found its way into the novel, undoubtedly because of Marquez’ Colombian heritage. For instance, Wood writes that “the arguments over reform in the nineteenth century, the arrival of the railway, the War of the Thousand Days, the American fruit company, the cinema, the automobile, and the massacre of striking plantation workers” are all incorporated in the novel at one point or another (9). Furthermore, these real events are blended with others that are all, according to Marquez, based on actual events (although they are undoubtedly embellished by the use of hyperbole), but this combination of real events and exaggerated accounts of extraordinary tales combines so that “the world of One Hundred Years of Solitude is a place where beliefs and metaphors become forms of fact, and where more ordinary facts become uncertain” (57-58). His discussion of these topics will be useful when contributing to the section discussing the influences in Marquez’ life that contributed to his writing.

One of Wood’s most interesting arguments is that Marquez’ work concentrates on the way people interact with each other and the way in which they perceive the world around them. He says that “the characters themselves in One Hundred Years of Solitude offer many readings of history, although…the readings are usually ignorant or deluded” (11). Furthermore, Macondo’s isolation from the outside world adds to the innocence and/or ignorance of its inhabitants (30). However, “there is no hiding from history for long” (30), especially the brutal history of Latin America, and this fact affects the characters’ interpretations of the world, which is why the novel can seem hopeless or pessimistic to some readers. This theory of each character interpreting the world on his or her own could contribute to the section discussing the overall meaning of the book. Following this section, Wood delves into a deep analysis of the style in which the book is written. Citing a few passages, he argues that the book is written in a conventional manner, causing it to sound like “the linguistic custom of the community” (17). This combined with the recurring theme of solitude causes the book to have an unusual appeal. In Wood’s words, “it beautifully pictures the charm of what we are not ordinarily supposed to find charming” (34). The simplicity and oddity (and perhaps stupidity) of the characters in the novel, combined with their ignorance due to their solitude causes the reader to relate to them in a strange way, not typical of a usual connection between a reader and a fictional character, according to Wood. Like many other authors, Wood spends a great deal of time discussing the “unastonished tone” in which the book is written, which causes the real to blend effortlessly with the magical or extraordinary. Furthermore, Wood states that the author is present everywhere in his work, and that in this case, by using this unquestioning tone, Marquez wants the reader to question the limits of reality. This is an interesting point, and has the potential to contribute a great deal to the Wikipedia section dealing with the meaning or message of the book. After this section of Wood’s book he deals with the diction and narrative direction of Cien años de soledad. While his arguments on these topics and other smaller topics in the book are sound, they are not as intriguing or compelling as the ones previously listed. Also, they do not contain the same potential to contribute to the betterment of the Wikipedia article on Cien años de soledad. --Aellingboe (talk) 19:14, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

P.S.
Not sure why that one sentence has that dotted box around it..?--Aellingboe (talk) 05:07, 9 February 2010 (UTC)


 * It's because it began with spaces -- any line starting with a space is left unformatted when the page is displayed, so there was no word-wrapping and no formatting of any kind. I took out the spaces at the start of the line and it looks fine now. Mike Christie (talk) 11:11, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

YUP
totally think those are good things to add to the article! see you in class trmw :OP --Laurarosenielsen (talk) 06:59, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

PROJECT PROGRESS
WEEK ONE

hello everyone :)

so here is kinda what we thought would be good to attempt for the first week on working on this


 * 1) PAIR DOWN THE CHARACTERS-basically this article is saying who the characters are... dont need it all!
 * 2) WORK ON THE INTRODUCTION-make sure the introduction is clear, contains needed information not just random who reall cares kinds info.
 * 3) EXPAND ON PLOT SUMMARY--maybe work on a few paragraphs vs one line

Improve introduction

Mention magical realism Awards for work Impact and importance Introduction of major + importance Position in Latin American Literature and author Marked as a ground breaking novel to the magical realist movement

Expand Plot summary

Pair down characters

Reception is super important to this article

So if you do anything to the article just post your changes on in this section :) thanks and have a great weekend laura--Laurarosenielsen (talk) 21:14, 12 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Might I suggest waiting to work on the "introduction"? The opening part of the article (called the "lead" on Wikipedia) is ideally supposed to be a summary of what is in the article. This is much easier to write once the rest of the article has been improved. Awadewit (talk) 04:54, 13 March 2010 (UTC)


 * Is it just me PATRICK or did someone delet our plot summary?? how are we supposed to do this if it can get changed whenever?--Laurarosenielsen (talk) 23:41, 5 April 2010 (UTC)


 * (Laura, I moved your comment down, so that the dates progress in order and it is easier to follow the discussion.) Yes, anyone can change the article - that is actually a benefit as many improvements happen this way, as you yourselves are improving it! Whenever you want to return to a version from the past, just go to the "history" tab and go through the various versions. I found one with the plot summary and added it back. If you want an earlier version of the plot summary, you can go further back in the history. See Help:Page history for how to use this feature. Awadewit (talk) 03:11, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Meeting
Me again. So it seems as though we need to meet up. If any of you guys see this and agree, let me know so we can try to arrange some sort of meeting. Thanks!--Brhoads2 (talk) 23:47, 13 April 2010 (UTC)


 * I think the main thing we need to work on for now is the references. The top of the page says that we need more sources for verification. Wikipedia will obviously not give us a Good Article standing if they themselves are telling us to provide more sources. I am free to meet up Friday, Sat, Sun, and Monday... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Patricklivemon (talk • contribs) 08:59, 14 April 2010 (UTC)


 * I agree with you. It shouldn't be too difficult to get this thing polished off.  Sunday works best for me, if that's ok.  Maybe at IK Barber? --Brhoads2 (talk) 17:04, 14 April 2010 (UTC)


 * I can meet on Sunday morning or afternoon, however, that means that we are leaving it to the last minute once again, which Jon said we should not do. So after looking at the article for a few minutes just now, I think we need to make the table of contents shorter and there ar etwo parts about history that need to be combined and/or pared down.  Trimming the table of contents might be tough because someone seems to be pretty happy with their list of characters and wants it to stay the way it is.  So, while we may not be able to eliminate the list of characters, I think we should remove some of their headings so that only first gen., second gen. third gen., etc shows up in the table of contents so that it's not so overwhelming.  I'm sure there are many other things that we will need to do, so please post your thoughts on this, and we can all work on it individually before getting together on sunday to polish it off.--Aellingboe (talk) 19:32, 14 April 2010 (UTC)


 * I can meet tomorrow too if anyone would like. Either way, let's plan on meeting at 10 am at IK Barber.  I don't really understand why the table of contents needs to be shortened . . . I don't know how that really reflects the article, but if you really think it will help we can do it.  What I think really needs fixing is the lack of sources.  Many sections have no citations at all, and every other "good" page I have looked at has almost every sentence cited, even if the article itself isn't very long.  So maybe we could all work to get more sources.  And feel free to change the history section in any way you see fit!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Brhoads2 (talk • contribs) 00:04, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Hey There
Hey guys. So I'm thinking about working on the historical context of the story and criticisms. What do you guys think?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Brhoads2 (talk • contribs) 00:01, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

The historical context looks very generic (the reader would be better off just reading the Colombia's history article.) Instead, I think it should refer to specific historic episodes and people:


 * 1) The one thousand days war, 1899-1902
 * 2) Rafael Uribe Uribe
 * 3) The Banana Massaccre, 1928


 * I agree the historical context is both too generic, and well as overly detailed and too long. Its drags out the first half of an otherwise good article. I think it should be shortened by at least half, with links to relevant articles. Possibly moving it to later in the article would help the articles flow. Is it standard for historical context to precede plot in book articles? It seems to me that while establishing context would naturally precede an analysis, in this case the content is heavy going and best fitted next to the chapters on themes, intepretation and significance. +&#124;&#124;&#124;&#124;&#124;&#124;&#124;&#124;&#124;&#124;&#124;&#124;&#124;&#124;&#124;&#124;&#124;&#124;&#124;&#124;&#124;&#124;&#124;&#124;&#124;+ (talk) 13:51, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

Improving the Article
Someone should take note that reference number 24 is completely bogus. January 28, 2013. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.233.255.72 (talk) 07:39, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

I trimmed down the table of contents because it says it should not be overwhelming in the featured article criteria, which the link to is right here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_criteria. I'm sure it will help us out. I definitely agree about adding more citations. I can't meet tomorrow unfortunately. --Aellingboe (talk) 08:37, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Internal Refrences: Eréndira
There is no mention of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_and_Sad_Tale_of_Innocent_Er%C3%A9ndira_and_Her_Heartless_Grandmother

Eréndira is the girl who Colonel Aureliano Buendía sees in the tent where he has to wring out the sheets because they're so soaked in sweat, who is being whored out by her fat grandmother in the rocking chair. I don't want to add it in because I'd rather people familiar with the page put it where it goes most cleanly, but it should probably be mentioned. 107.211.220.82 (talk) 20:40, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I'd encourage you to add it yourself♫ SqueakBox talk contribs 00:24, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

As to its meaning in human life...
This novel is nostalgic and haunting. It concludes that there is no such thing as a happy death... whether one is successful in reality or in dreams (myths), there are always problem(s) as a result (of being a human  e.g "of endogeneous hubris"as mentioned in the article and etc) and these/this problem(s) is/are life's failures... but this goes far from the yin and yang... as if the yin or yang (I don't know what represents the solitude between the two) wins over. And I think GGM's philosophy has opened the minds of the so many on this...I. T. S. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.22.169.176 (talk) 11:45, 9 April 2014 (UTC)

why the book got nobel?
abstract things and the flow are two major aspect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.225.0.49 (talk) 05:09, 28 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Books don't get Nobel prizes. Authors do — Preceding unsigned comment added by 148.87.19.214 (talk) 19:38, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

GGM character
This may just be a translation issue, but the character ostensibly named Gabriel García Márquez is never called that. There is a character named just Gabriel, near the end, and he is the great grandson of colonel Gerineldo Márquez, but the name García only appears in the character "Enrique García Isaza", who seems not at all related to Gabriel. I had before fruitlessly searched for a source on this character. Unless the claimgets sourced, I will remove it. Perhaps somebody speaking Spanish could help with the original text? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kotlopou (talk • contribs) 22:18, 24 September 2020 (UTC)

Time for an Editnotice?
Given that most people keep replacing Argentina with Colombia as the country despite the clarity of the Infobox rules ("country: Country of original publication), would adding an edit notice to the article help? e.g.

The text for the editnotice needs improvement, but I think it is necessary, given the constant vandalism.

--181.9.175.140 (talk) 18:55, 9 October 2021 (UTC)