One Hundred Years of Solitude

unexpected jubilee for
Colonel Aureliano, Buendía,
ordered by the government to
celebrate another anniversary
of the Treaty of Neerlandia,
was announced. It was a
decision so out of line with
official policy that the colonel
spoke out violently against it
and rejected the homage. Its
the first time Ive ever heard
of the word jubilee, he said.
But whatever it means, it has
to be a trick. The small