One Hundred Years of Solitude

and critical that soon he was treated as one of those useless great-grandfathers who wander about the be ...

daguerreotypes and the predictions of Nostradamus. But little by little he began abandoning him to his solit ...

hodgepodge of languages. He would walk along groping in the air, although he passed between objects with ...

the house, she had them build him a special room next to Aurelianos workshop, far from the noise and b ...

with tiny yellow flowers had taken root. The new place seemed to please Melquíades, because he was ...

puff paste. There he ate the meals that Visitación brought him twice a day, although in the last ...

ended up forgetting about him, absorbed in the composition of his poems, but on one occasion he thought ...

von Humboldt. Arcadio got a little closer to him when he began to help Aureliano in his silverwork. Melqu ...

trembling with which Melquíades made him listen to several pages of his impenetrable writing, whi ...

latter tried to get more explicit information, but he received only one answer: I have fo ...

dangerous spots. We come from the water, he said on a certain occasion. Much time passed in that way ...

river, Aureliano heard him say: I have died of fever on the dunes of Singapore. That day he went int ...

Arcadio Buendía was opposed to their burying him. He is immortal, he said, and he himself revealed the f ...

None of that, because hes alive, was the answer of José Arcadio Buendía, who finished the seventy-two ...

for Macondos greatest benefactor. It was the first burial and the best-attended one that was ever ...

In the tumult that gathered in the courtyard to drink coffee, tell jokes, and play cards. Amaranta f ...

which the people called the Street of the Turks. The Italian, whose head covered with patent leat ...

and told Pietro Crespi with a virulent anger that she was prepared to stop her sisters wedding ...

no resistance, but when she kissed Rebeca good-bye she whispered in her ear: Dont get your ...

shuffling through the rooms, the house seemed enormous and empty. Rebeca took charge of domestic order, while ...