Literature Talk: 50 Years of "One Hundred Years of Solitude"

Join Professor Gloria Chacon of UCSD's Literature Department for a discussion of One Hundred Years of Solitude the landmark 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family and the town of Macondo founded by them.

Its magical realist style and thematic substance established it as an important representative of the literary Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s.  Widely acclaimed and translated, and having sold a gazillion copies, it is recognized not only as one of the most significant works in the Spanish literary canon, but also as one of the foundational works of contemporary global culture. Listen here to Gabriel Garcia Marquez' 1982 Nobel Literature Prize acceptance speech.

Literature Talk is an occasional community lecture and discussion series of favorite books and exciting literary topics connecting readers with area college professors who know or teach the books in their classes.  Registration encouraged.  Please scroll down.

Dr. Chacon teaches in the Literature Dept at UCSD.  Her research interests include indigenous literatures of the Americas, Chican@/Latin@ literary and cultural movements, Central American poetics and politics, US Central Americans, and Latin American literary and cultural theories.