The book One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the Buendia, a family living misfortunes, sorrows but also joy, in the mythical town called Macondo. The village is founded by the founding of the town is due José Arcadio Buendia and Ursula Iguarán that guided a group of families in the development of the first settlements, but the fears and prejudices of the Buendía seized as being cousins, they assumed as true the possibility that their offspring were to be pigtailed. Nothing wrong, since it had three sons named Jose Arcadio, Aureliano and Amaranta.
The founder José Arcadio, is responsible for leading the people even in matters as trivial as the arrival of a group of gypsies with their merchandise, their presence in history, ends tied to a tree, a place which comes the specter of his most bitter rival, with whom he engages in a particular conversation. Meanwhile, the matriarch Ursula takes over the headship of the family and respect for all for over one hundred years.
The fledgling town began to grow gradually, to get people from other places, increasing infrastructure and trade. But a strange illness begins to afflict the Macondo, forget everything until the point that they must seek strategies to remember, Aureliano label objects to make memorial, but this method is safe when people forget to read.
Some time later, returns to town a gypsy, an old friend of Jose Arcadio named Melquiades who gives people a miracle that you return ellipsis memory, in gratitude the subject eventually settle in the Buendía house.
Civil war breaks out involving the Buendía who take sides in favor of liberals, but the death of some of its members and the constant anxiety, Aureliano carried the signature of an armistice agreement that guarantees the tense crying in the region.
After the peace and a foiled suicide Aureliano carried back to his home, away from the ravings of politics, is confined to his workshop where he is engaged in manufacturing gold fish in order to sell them.
After the peace and a foiled suicide Aureliano carried back to his home, away from the ravings of politics, is confined to his workshop where he is engaged in manufacturing gold fish in order to sell them.
Life goes quiet but things would eventually change thanks to people like Aureliano Triste, one of the seventeen offspring brought into the world by Aureliano Buendía, it opens an ice factory in the village, which handles business to his brother Aurelius, with the disconcerting idea of leaving to go after the train and bring this civilization to Macondo.
Not much time for Aureliano would just return to its homeland to train board, besides the phonograph, the telegraph and cinema (films). With places of interest now, if visitors are beginning to stay in the village personalities coming from different parts of the world, including a pair of entrepreneurs who install a banana plantation that while brings relative prosperity to the locals, just for mistreating and exploiting people, encouraging a general strike. How ever the national army appears to favor foreign contractors without hesitation killing workers and throwing their bodies into the sea.
So merciless slaughter is followed by copious rainfall regime that does not diminish in four years, eleven months and two days, according to the words of Ursula, the matriarch, the late rainy season will mark the end of its existence.
The plan is fulfilled, Ursula Macondo dies and enters a stunning abandonment.
The Buendía family are no longer dominant in the area, the number of its members is greatly reduced and no longer remind them literally in his own people.
One of the last descendant of the Babylonian Aureliano Buendia was busy deciphering scrolls hidden long ago by Melquiades that account for the history of his family, at that time, his aunt Amaranta Ursula returns from Brussels beginning a torrid affair between them which result is the birth of a child with a pig''s tail and bleed to death during childbirth Amaranta. This situation leads to Aureliano Babilonia a state of anxiety as to go door to door begging for help, but has been with the terrible reality, Macondo is now a deserted village at the end of the day he meets a drunk bartender who until falls asleep. Upon awakening seems to recover his sanity, his newborn child is alone and runs in your search, however, and unfortunately for him, the little one is being devoured by a colony of ants in the minds of Aureliano stormy designs emerge Scroll of Melquiades was his own history, prepared from a century now forgotten, which buried the life and work of a people and a family who were born to be no more ...