One Hundred Years of Solitude

Macondo as the brightest and
most peaceful town on earth,
and of an enormous house,
scented with oregano, where
she wanted to live until old
age with a loyal husband and
two strong sons who would
be named Rodrigo and
Gonzalo, never Aureliano and
José Arcadio, and a daughter
who would be named
Virginia and never Remedios.
She had evoked the town
idealized by nostalgia with