著者

依藤 道夫

出版者

都留文科大学

雑誌

都留文科大学研究紀要 (ISSN:02863774)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.58, pp.61-74, 2003

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This paper is a study on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's great masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude, which is a very famous "magical realism" novel. Garcia Marquez is a Nobel Prize winning author of Colombia and he wrote novels, both long ones and short, the background of which was an imaginary village (town) "Macondo". It was very smilar to Aracataca, Garcia Marquez's hometown in northern Colombia. The images of not a few characters and episodes of this novel were from his real hometown. Thus One Hundred Years of Solitude, a very eventful and amazingly fantastic story, is based on Garcia Marquez's own memories of his native place. Realism and fantasy are mixed up in the world of this novel, and even supernatural phenomena are seen in its many pages. Readers can meet even ghosts and monster. The Buendia family history of 100 years is told generation after generation in this story and not a few queer or eccentric characters appear one after another. Most of them are possessed with deep solitude. Through the 100 years of the Buendia family Garcia Marquez tries to clarify the true and deep meaning of human solitude. This paper tries to analyze such a dynamic but fantastic and strange world of this novel and to pursue what Garcia Marquez wished to say on human solitude through the Buendia family by considering "magical realism" and William Faulkner's influence upon him.