One Hundred Years of Solitude

impression that an earthquake was breaking up the house. A huge man had arrived. His square shoulders ...

by the salt of the open air, his hair was short and straight like the mane of a mule, his ja ...

saddlebags in his hand, and he appeared like a thunderclap on the porch with the begonias where Amarant ...

he said to Aureliano, who was at his silversmiths bench with all five senses alert. He did not linger w ...

shouting and weeping with joy. It was José Arcadio. He was returning as poor as when he had lef ...

woke up, after eating sixteen raw eggs, he went directly to Catarinos store, where his monumental size ...

Catarino, who did not believe in magical tricks of strength, bet him twelve pesos that he could not move th ...

and red. To the women who were besieging him and coveting him he put the question as to who wo ...

names on fourteen pieces of paper which they put into a hat and each woman took one out. When ...

world sixty-five times, enlisted in a crew of sailors without a country. The women who went to bed wi ...

and spent the night in the red- light district, making bets on his strength. On the rare occasions when ...

whose extremely salty flesh as it cooked in the sun had a sweet and granular taste. Under a bright no ...

worms, and still looking for the course to Guadeloupe. Úrsula would weep at the table as if she ...

gypsies took away was the same lout who would eat half a suckling pig for lunch and whose flatulence ...

idea of gaining his affection. Aureliano tried to relive the times when they slept in the same room, ...

was a sugary dandy next to that protomale whose volcanic breathing could be heard all over the house ...

previous days, and she sucked her finger with so much anxiety that she developed a callus on her thumb. ...

his bedroom. She found him in his shorts, lying in the hammock that he had hung from the beams w ...

in an icy sweat, feeling knots forming in her intestines, while José Arcadio stroked her ankles with the ...

like a little bird. She managed to thank God for having been born before she lost herself in the inconceivabl ...