One Hundred Years of Solitude

leftovers of his false splendor into a suitcase and crossed the ocean in the hold of a ship where ...

he had fallen into a trap from which he would never escape, exiled forever from the diamond light a ...

be sure that she would not lose him in the shadows, she had assigned him a corner of the bedroom, ...

until it was time to go to bed, perspiring with fear on a stool under the watchful and glacial eye ...

a pig; fighting cocks, who brought on the death of men and remorse for the rest of ones life; ...

awakened, pressed in the vise of his nightmares, the light in the window and the caresses of Amaranta in the bath ...

would have the radiant smile of a Pope, and she would cut and polish his nails so that the pilgrims who ca ...

courtyard of Castel Gandolfo he had seen the Pope on a balcony making the same speech in seven la ...

return home, having sold the silver candlesticks and the heraldic chamberpot-which at the moment of tru ...

acrobatics on the furniture in the living room while he would go among the groups giving lessons in ...

had done in the past. Until well into the night they could be heard chattering and singing and t ...

man who was still deciphering the parchments on the worktable. They did not dare go in, but they ...

four of the children went into the room one morning while Aureliano was in the kitchen, preparing to destroy ...

The four oldest children, who wore short pants in spite of the fact that they were on the t ...

water. On several occasions they would get into the pool to soap him from head to toe as he floated ...

accompany him in his asthmatic insomnia, without speaking, strolling through the house with him in ...

broken slabs in the corner where Úrsulas bed had always stood and where the glow was most in ...

glowing like embers in the darkness. The discovery of the treasure was like a deflagration. Instead ...

velvet, and he had the bathroom floor covered with paving stones and the walls with tiles. The ...

children had a party that lasted until dawn. At six in the morning they came out naked from ...