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One Hundred Years of Solitude II: Gabriel García Márquez on Disaster and Excess


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It is perhaps because ultimately Macondo is so full of the ghosts of the motley cast of characters that have wandered through the book’s pages, that García Márquez can only put an end to it all by shouting “enough!” and bringing on a cataclysmic hurricane that tears the whole place down.


By Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia


00:00 Introduction

03:38 Ruins as Destiny
07:22 Questions
10:45 Open and Shut
18:53 Multiple and Singular
26:14 Credits


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