One Hundred Years of Solitude

across the way. He spent half his life in the back of the store, scribbling in his extra- careful hand ...

was reasonable to believe that he had done nothing else during his stay in Macondo. The only people ...

roommates at some period, and he knew many things that should not have been known, such as the fa ...

irreverence. Not even his own manuscripts were safe from that dualism. Having learned Catalan in order t ...

of raising a row as had been feared, he commented, dying with laughter, that it was the natural destiny of ...

keeping them with him in the passenger coach. The world must be all fucked up, he said then, when men ...

would appear in another, attacked by the same elves that had tormented Fernanda. Collons, he would c ...

do from the time he left Macondo until he landed in Barcelona, but nonetheless he threw away a pair ...

stacks of books with which he had endured during his exile, and said to his friends: All that shit ...

had written the letters was obvious. In the first ones, with his customary good humor, he s ...

had no end, and the bet that he had won during the first dinner because he had recognized in the ...

his memory began to grow sad. That process of nostalgia was also evident in the pictures. In the first ...

mournful ship that had come to be like a sleepwalker on the autumnal seas. Germán and Aureliano an ...

in the house where he had been born, that the dry herring still had the same taste on a ...

recuperation and stimulation were slowly changing into pastoral letters of disenchantment. One wint ...

coffee vendor, and the fleeting larks of springtime. Upset by two nostalgias facing each other l ...

remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never ...

house, and he bought an eternal ticket on a train that never stopped traveling. In the postcards that ...

winged horses in the bluegrass of Kentucky, the Greek lovers in the infernal sunsets of Arizona, the girl ...

coming back on Monday, but nothing more was ever heard of them. A year after the departure of the ...