One Hundred Years of Solitude

personal interpretation of
what the banana company
had meant to Macondo that
many years later, when
Aureliano became part of the
world, one would have
thought that he was telling a
hallucinated version, because
it was radically opposed to
the false one that historians
had created and consecrated
in the schoolbooks. In the
small isolated room where the
arid air never penetrated, nor