1993 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
The Cervantean Turn: One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Gabriel García Márquez
While seeking to make a living in the Mexican film industry, Márquez suddenly found himself creatively possessed by the theme which he had been contemplating since his earliest days as a writer. His old idea for a novel called La Casa (The House) now developed into the historical and family saga One Hundred Years of Solitude. The sub-textual concerns of his early fiction go some way to explaining this sudden inspiration.