Word: aureliano
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...Buendias of One Hundred Years of Solitude were a superhuman dynasty, and they lived out their one hundred years as if they were in their natural element. Fifty years passed, but Aureliano went on making little gold fishes and planning for a "mortal con-flagration that would wipe out all vestiges of a regime of corruption." Fifty years of wind and rain passed, and Aureliano's father remained tied to the tree in the yard. "Four years, eleven months, and two days" of rain flooded the town, but his mother kept the house dry and safe...
...civility. One searches in vain for the raffish Macondo of One Hundred Years of Solitude-modeled on the banana boom town of Aracataca, where the author was born. Macondophiles will at least learn some new bits and pieces about the place. The action starts with a note from Colonel Aureliano Buendia, the great revolutionary warrior who returns in Solitude, and the recluse Rebeca also makes an ectoplasmic appearance...
...introverted, impulsive, richly eccentric. José Arcadio, the founding father, all common sense when it comes to law or town design, is lured into alchemy and other esoteric sciences; he tries to use a daguerreotype machine to find the invisible player of his pianola. One of his sons, Colonel Aureliano Buendia, becomes a revolutionary leader who organizes 32 armed uprisings against a distant and corrupt "government." He loses them all, but wins the war-only to lose the peace. Aureliano II is a roistering spendthrift who takes on all comers in eating contests. He falls only once, comatose with turkey...
...range and length, the book is satisfyingly cohesive where it might be sprawling. The key to this unity is Garcia Márquez's treatment of time. Consider the superb opening sentence: "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." Such compression of time makes the novel taut with a sense of fate. Atavistic dictates of blood must be followed. Premonitions invariably come true. A series of coded predictions, written when Macondo was still young, are deciphered only when every prediction...
...band of international "commandos" melodramatically titled "the Intercontinental Penetration Force.'' Led by a hulking (6 ft. 7 in.), bearded American ex-marine who calls himself Jerry Patrick, the force practices parachute jumping, calls itself the nucleus of armed support for a Cuban liberal named Aureliano Sánchez Arango. Most significant, the U.S. was pointedly withholding promised support of Manuel Ray, the young reform-minded Cuban exile with the strongest claim to organizable underground strength inside Cuba...