One Hundred Years of Solitude

repertory. That was how
Úrsula learned of the death of
her mother, as a simple
consequence of listening to
the songs in the hope that
they would say something
about her son José Arcadio.
Francisco the Man, called that
because he had once defeated
the devil in a duel of
improvisation, and whose real
name no one knew,
disappeared from Macondo
during the insomnia plague