Word: macondo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, fans of Macondo will recognize the magic and hyperbole. For example, as the ultimate outrage the Americans confiscate the sea in partial payment of the national debt: they survey it, roll it up and ship it home to water the Arizona desert, leaving an endless lunar plain...
With his fictional Colombian town of Macondo, Garcia Márquez created a Latin American Yoknapatawpha in which grubby fact and mythological fantasy mingled into what can loosely be called magic realism. His new novel is a more circumscribed, grimmer and more obscure work. Its setting-mainly the presidential palace of a nameless South American country-shows a little less Faulkner and a little more Kafka. The Castle, with a high temperature-humidity index, comes to mind...
...become, not surprisingly, one of the major influences on contemporary U.S. fiction. But the Latin appetite for the big bite has in recent years produced one unquestionable masterpiece: in One Hundred Years of Solitude, Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez completely and gloriously occupied his mythical territory of Macondo, a tropical Yoknapatawpha...
...revolution was the only possible apocalypse and that revolution failed. So the town moves from one false apocalypse to another, and the epic tragedy of One Hundred Years of Solitude degenerates into comedy. Instead of the promised return of the magician Melquiades, who brought the first ice to Macondo, the senile priest decries the reappearance of the Wandering Jew--a bewildered adolescent who is the first visitor in 20 years to stay overnight in Macondo's only hotel. At last the promised end becomes pure satire at the conclusion of No One Writes to the Colonel...
...revolution needs more than the death by natural causes of the "the only one" who could oppose it, because behind Big Mama and the President of the Republic stands the United States. When it comes to politics even Macondo does not exist in solitude...