One Hundred Years of Solitude

order to climb the greased pole, and she was at the point of bringing on a tragedy among the seventeen ...

about that precaution. Until her last moment on earth she was unaware that her irreparable fate as ...

one could understand that her shaved and perfect skull was not some kind of challenge, and that the bol ...

perturbation, a tormenting breeze that was still perceptible several hours after she had passed by. Me ...

out the exact place where she had been and the time that had passed since she had left it. It was ...

commander of the guard had died of love and how a gentleman from a faraway land had been ...

Úrsula succeeded in imposing the command that she eat with Amaranta in the kitchen so that the o ...

morning, sleep all day long, and she spent several months with her timetable all in disarray u ...

she would throw water from the cistern over herself with a gourd. It was an act so prolonged, so metic ...

she began to bathe herself, a stranger lifted a tile from the roof and was breathless at the tremendous ...

Oh, all right, she said. But be careful, those tiles are rotten. The strangers face had ...

than usual so that the man would not be in danger. While she was pouring water from the, cistern ...

gave into temptation and went a step further. Let me soap you, he murmured. Thank you for ...

Then, while she was drying herself, the stranger begged her, with his eyes full of t ...

anything underneath, as everyone had suspected, and he felt himself marked forever with the white- ...

man barely had time to let out a cry of terror as he cracked his skull and was killed outright on the ...

secret perfume, and then they understood that the smell of Remedios the Beauty kept on torturing men ...

Remedios Buendía did not give off a breath of love but a fatal emanation. The occasion for the proof ...

been an experience in a dream. Such was the prestige of that silence that Úrsula did not have the heart ...

possessed by a strange fascination, menaced by some invisible danger, and many succumbed to a terrible ...