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{{quote| ''"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."'' --The first line}}▼
| title = One Hundred Years of Solitude
| original title = Cien años de soledad
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| author = Gabriel García Márquez
| central theme = The subjetivity of reality, the repetition of history, the life on Colombia in particular and latinamerican countries in general
| elevator pitch = The rise and fall of a large Colombian clan, the Buendías, and the town they founded and live in, Macondo, over a century.
| genre = Magic realism
| publication date = 1967
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''"That's how it goes," Aureliano admitted, "but not so much."'' }}
''[[One Hundred Years of Solitude]]'' is a 1967 novel
The book follows the story of the Buendía family and the town they create, Macondo, a metaphor for Latin America as a whole, from its foundation to its end. Of course, it is told in a [[Anachronic Order|non-linear fashion]] with [[Generation Xerox|every generation having the same few names]], as well as the same basic attributes (except for a pair of twins whose names are thought to have been accidentally switched at some point, which is why it's so confusing). Alongside the story of the Buendia family, there are an abundance of vignettes recounting both the everyday and the supernatural occurrences that shape the lives of the inhabitants of Macondo. The themes range widely, incorporating legendary figures (such as the [[Wandering Jew]]), historical events ([[Pirate|Sir.Francis Drake bombing of Rioacha]], the Massacre of the Banana growers), and short stories about the love of two minor characters who never get to [[Two Lines, No Waiting|interfere with the main action]]. [[Exactly What It Says
[[Needs More Love]].
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* [[Adult Child]]: Remedios the Beauty especially, though several cast members could fall into this category.
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: {{spoiler|And in fact, almost everyone does.}}▼
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Rebeca with José Arcadio.
▲* [[Anyone Can Die]]: {{spoiler|And in fact, almost everyone does.}}
* [[Apron Matron]]: Ursula.
* [[Ascend to
** {{spoiler|It's implied that Melquíades does this at one point.}}
* [[Babies Ever After]]: {{spoiler|Subverted.}}
* [[Back From the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Melquíades. Twice.}}
* [[Badass Mustache]]: Colonel Aureliano Buendía.
* [[Banana Republic]]
* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Mauricio is the [[Jerk
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: {{spoiler|José Arcadio saves Colonel Aureliano Buendía from the firing squad.}}
* [[Bigger Is Better in Bed]]: Several people say this about José Arcadio.▼
{{quote| A gypsy woman with splendid flesh came in a short time after accompanied by a man who was not of the caravan but who was not from the village either, and they began to undress in front of the bed. Without meaning to, the woman looked at José Arcadio and examined his [[Unusual Euphemism|magnificent animal in repose]] with a kind of pathetic fervor.<br />▼
"My boy, she exclaimed, "may God preserve you just as you are." }}▼
* [[Big Eater]]: Aureliano Segundo becomes this, to incredible degrees.
** Subverted with Rebeca: The Buendías only break her habit of eating dirt and whitewash with a ''lot'' of effort, and she'll snap right back whenever overwhelmed or stressed.
* [[Big Fancy House]]: The Buendía household gets remodeled and renovated quite a few times as the family becomes more successful. {{spoiler|It doesn't last.}}
▲* [[Bigger Is Better in Bed]]: Several people say this about José Arcadio.
▲{{quote|
▲"My boy, she exclaimed, "may God preserve you just as you are." }}
* [[Big Screwed-Up Family]]
* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: José Arcadio, post-[[Walking the Earth]]. Also, Aureliano Segundo.
* [[Boom Town]]: Macondo. It goes to the [[Dying Town]] phase but never becomes quite a [[Ghost Town|ghost]] one.
*
* [[Broken Bird]]: Amaranta (starting, but not ending, with her rivalry with Rebeca over Pietro Crespi). Meme after {{spoiler|losing Mauricio Babilonia.}}
* [[Brother-Sister Incest]] and [[Parental Incest]]: Or incest in general. One of the biggest driving plot forces is to ''keep'' these from happening. {{spoiler|Rebeca and José Arcadio marry, but Rebeca is adopted and a child of distant relatives}}. {{spoiler|Incest happens anyway, in the end, between an aunt and nephew with the same blood. They actually don't know it until the very end, when she's dead and he's the last one standing.}}
** There's also Aureliano José, who lusts for years after his aunt Amaranta [[Parental Substitute|who raised him in stead of his father.]] She reciprocates a little until Ursula almost
* [[Building of Adventure]]: After the rains, when all the action is centered in or around the now-decrepit Buendía mansion.
* [[Buried Alive]]
* [[Buried Treasure]]
* [[But You Screw One Goat!]]
* [[Call Back]]: Jose Arcadio Buendía discovers a Spanish galleon during one of his expeditions. It shows up every now and then as the generations pass.
* [[Chick Magnet]]: Pietro Crespi.
* [[City of Adventure]]: Macondo, your quiet smallish town somewhere in [[Latin Land|Colombian Caribbean]]
* [[Colonel Badass]]: Colonel Aureliano Buendía, of course. Arcadio ''tries'' to be this, but it doesn't work.
* [[Control Freak]]: Fernanda, especially as Úrsula {{spoiler|loses her eyesight.}} This ends up with {{spoiler|Mauricio Babilonia getting shot and paralyzed, and Meme [[The Voiceless|going silent]] and being shunted off to a convent for the rest of her life.}}▼
* [[Conspicuous Consumption]]: After becoming successful, Aureliano Segundo parties ''hard.''
▲* [[Control Freak]]: Fernanda, especially as Úrsula {{spoiler|loses her eyesight.}} This ends up with {{spoiler|Mauricio Babilonia getting shot and paralyzed, and Meme [[The Voiceless|going silent]] and being shunted off to a convent for the rest of her life.}}
* [[Creepy Child]]: Colonel Aureliano Buendía was one. He cried in his mom's womb, was born with his eyes open, predicted things as a kid and as a youngster…
** One of the 17 Aurelianos also was like this. He creeped the shit out of Ursula and Amaranta when he came to meet them, walked around the house as if he had been born there, and asked them for a toy that he had never ever sen and somehow he knew that they had it.
* [[Dead Guy, Junior]]: Over and over and over…
* [[Death
* [[Death Is Cheap]]: Melquíades.
* [[Death of a Thousand Cuts]]: The {{spoiler|last Buendía dies of this from an army of ants.}}
* [[Death Seeker]]: Played with in the case of {{spoiler|Colonel Aureliano. He isn't actively seeking death, just waiting for the right time to die.}}
* [[Determinator]]: José Arcadio Buendía. His sheer inability to give up on one mad dream after another results in the foundation of Macondo and drives the plot for the first several chapters of the book.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Prudencio Aguilar insults José Arcadio Buendía over his lack of a sex life with Ursula. José Arcadio Buendía [[Impaled
* [[The Ditz]]: Mauricio Babilonia. Pietro Crespi, to a certain extent.
* [[Dogged Nice Guy]]: Gerineldo Márquez, to Amaranta.
* {{spoiler|[[Downer Ending]]: Amaranta Ursula succumbs to [[Death
▲* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Prudencio Aguilar insults José Arcadio Buendía over his lack of a sex life with Ursula. José Arcadio Buendía [[Impaled With Extreme Prejudice|kills him with a spear]] ten minutes later.
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|Pietro Crespi}}. Subverted with Colonel Aureliano.
* [[Easy Amnesia]]: The entire town, briefly, and more permanently Rebeca, as a symptom of a plague.
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* [[Gag Penis]]: The first José Arcadio was described as "very gifted" in his manhood, and the discovery of that resulted in him being drafted away from home by a impressed lover. Also, Aureliano {{spoiler|Babilonia}} from the penultimate generation.
* [[General Failure]]: Colonel Aureliano Buendía, although not technically a general. Starts a lot of wars, and loses all of them.
* [[Generational Saga]]▼
* [[Generation Xerox]]: The Aurelianos and José Arcadios. Lampshaded by Úrsula more than once.
** Subverted with the Segundos. They each have some traits of their predecessors, but some are switched around, maybe due to the [[Twin Switch]] they perpetuated as children.
▲* [[Generational Saga]]
* [[Generational Trauma]]: Every problem in the Buendía clan can be easily traced to founding patriarch José Arcadio Buendía's propensity to violence and inability to actually parent his children and to his wife Úrsula's incest paranoia. Is not just that the traits are repeating and reappearing like their descendant names, is that each new generation is replicating what they had learned from the previous one.
* [[Genki Girl]]: Amaranta Úrsula, and to a lesser extent, {{spoiler|her older sister}} Meme before her.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Úrsula, to a degree.
* [[Ghost Town]]: Post-deluge Macondo.
* [[The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry]]: Amaranta and Rebeca.
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Amaranta's burnt hand is treated as a "good scar" and as a metaphor for her virginity.
* [[Gratuitous Foreign Language]]
* [[Happily Adopted]]: Aureliano Babilonia ''thinks'' he's this. This is what leads him to
* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]:
* [[Hikikomori]]: Various characters shut themselves in rooms, usually the workshop or Melquiades' room. Sometimes it's only temporarily. The most "famous" are Jose Arcadio Segundo and {{spoiler|the Colonel}}
* [[Historical In-Joke]]: Colonel Aureliano Buendía's involvement in war between the Liberals and Conservatives.
** The {{spoiler|massacre of some two or three thousand people by the banana company}} [[wikipedia:Banana massacre|actually happened — the book just fictionalizes it]].
* [[Hooker
* [[I Wished You Were Dead]]: Amaranta. ''Twice''.▼
* [[Impoverished Patrician]]: Fernanda del Carpio.
* [[Incest Is Relative]]: After marrying her own cousin, Úrsula spends most of her life desperately trying to prevent this from destroying the family, but it happens anyway. Amaranta provokes this in a few of her nephews and great-nephews, but never follows through with it.
** Subverted by José Arcadio, who marries his adopted sister Rebeca shortly after meeting her for the first time.
** {{spoiler|Aureliano Babilonia}} [[Wrong Genre Savvy|thinks he's safe from this]] because he ''thinks'' he was adopted.
* [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]]: Remedios the Beauty, who loves going around naked. She even lampshades this by saying it's the best way to go around.
* [["It's Not Rape If You Enjoyed It"]]: Near the end, {{spoiler|Aureliano Babilonia is unable to cope with his attraction to Amaranta Ursula, who is his aunt and who he believes to be his sister, and rapes her while her husband is in the other room. She tries to fight him off at first, but ends up enjoying it so much that her feelings of love are transferred from her husband over to him.}}
▲* [[I Wished You Were Dead]]: Amaranta. ''Twice''.
* [[Jerk
* [[Kissing Cousins]]: José Arcadio Buendía and Úrsula. Happened also to some other members of family, with {{spoiler|pig-tailed child as final result.}}
** [[Book Ends]]: {{spoiler|A relative of José Arcadio and Úrsula had been born with a pig's tail as a result of incest, which had led Úrsula to refuse to consummate her marriage in the first place.}}
* [[Knight Templar Parent]]: Fernanda, so damn much.
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]:
** This troper was certain for the first half of the book that it was the Colonel's story, but having read the whole thing if one character can be pointed to and called the protagonist it would have to be Úrsula who is the direct or indirect cause for almost everything that happens in the course of the story and who's yearnings best encapsulate the overarching desires and drives of the Buendía clan.
*** [[Fridge Brilliance]]: of course you did. Úrsula was the leader of the clan, after she died the Buendias quickly fell into decadence and the last survivors were just ghosts of their former glory.
* [[Lolicon]]: See [[Wife Husbandry]].
* [[Loners Are Freaks]]
* [[Mad Dreamer]]: José Arcadio Buendía, who devolves into a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] in his old age.
* [[May-December Romance]]: Amaranta Ursula and her first husband, Gaston.▼
* [[Magic Realism]]: This ''is'' a Gabriel García Márquez novel, after all.
* [[Marked to Die]]:
▲* [[May-December Romance]]: Amaranta Ursula and her first husband, Gaston.
* [[Miniature Senior Citizens]]: The matriarch of the family, Úrsula Iguarán, lives until she is 120 years old… and by that time has shrunk to the size of a fetus. So much that her descendants {{spoiler|Aureliano}} and Amaranta
* [[Multigenerational Household]]
* [[Nice Hat]]: Melquíades has one with a brim "like the wings of a crow".
* [[Nouveau Riche]]: The family under the direction of Aureliano Segundo
* [[Old Maid]]: Amaranta, who after her pretendant Pietro Crespi commited suicide after being rejected first by her sister Rebeca and then by herself, never got another pretendant. She even died a virgin.
* [[Old Retainer]]: Several, but the most notable is Santa Sofía de la Piedad, who, albeit is the mother of Aureliano Segundo and José Arcadio Segundo, is treated as another servant, and she seems to like it in that way.
* [[One Steve Limit]]: Massively averted. Male names are passed down through family lines in every conceivable combination.
** Notably, during the war Colonel Aureliano Buendía sires 17 sons… who are all named Aureliano. People resort to calling them by both their names and maternal surnames, i.e: Aureliano Triste, Aureliano Amador, etc.
*** And said dad also had a child before, with Pilar Ternera. His name? Aureliano José.
** Even the female names get repeated eventually: Remedios, the first woman to marry within the family, has her namesakes in Remedios the Beauty and Meme (Full name: Renata Remedios), while the last Buendia female is Amaranta Ursula, after the family matriarch and her blood daughter.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: For most of the book, Úrsula is the most (and sometimes only) sane voice in the house. Lampshaded now and then. Her senility and death marks the beggining of the end for the family and the town.
* [[Planet of Steves]]: Let's say that the only names that doesn't repeat within the Buendía family are Rebeca and Fernanda, the two main "outsiders" to the family.
* [[Princess in Rags]]: Good ''Lord'', Fernanda. Lampshaded when she goes on a [[Character Filibuster|two-sentence rant that lasts more than two pages]] about how she was raised to be a queen, only to be treated like a servant by her in-laws, who have no respect for her or her golden chamberpot.
* [[Proper Lady]]: Little Remedios, and Santa Sofía de la Piedad later. Subverted with Úrsula, who is very devoted to her family, but also extremely stubborn and more than capable of standing up to her husband and children.
* [[Rape Is Love]]: {{spoiler|When Aureliano Babilonia rapes Amaranta Úrsula}}. This is also how Pilar Ternera lost her virginity, and which made her join the caravan that founded Macondo in the first place.
* [[Redemption in
* {{spoiler|[[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies]]}}
* [[Roma]]: Several. Melquíades eventually becomes a permanent fixture in the house after he comes [[Back From the Dead]].
* [[Scars Are Forever]]: {{spoiler|Amaranta, who burns her own hand as self-punishment for Pietro Crespi's suicide.}}
* [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]]
* [[Shout
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]] / [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Any pair of brothers named José Arcadio and Aureliano. Reversed in names (but not in spirit) with the Segundos.
*
* [[Spoiled Sweet]]: Meme by Aureliano Segundo, who lets her fish money right out of his pocket.
* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]
* [[Stigmatic Pregnancy Euphemism]]: Meme does get sent to a nunnery to hide her pregnancy. Later, her baby is sent back to her family to rise.
* [[The Stoic]]
* [[Straw Man Has a Point]]
▲* [[The Stoic]] - Colonel Aureliano Buendía becomes this some time during the war. Ursula comes to believe that he was actually like this from the very beginning.
* [[Tangled Family Tree]]
* [[Tarot Motifs]]
* [[Theme Naming]]
** Played with in the third and fourth generations of the Buendía family. While Arcadio and Aureliano José each take after their fathers (José Arcadio and Aureliano, respectively), Arcadio's sons Aureliano Segundo and José Arcadio Segundo take on the opposite personalities from what their names indicate. See [[Twin Switch]].
* [[Title Drop]]
* [[Too Good for This Sinful Earth]]:
* [[Tsundere]]: As mentioned, Meme is a Type B. Normally a rebellious and somewhat vain [[Genki Girl]], she goes all tsuntsun when Mauricio appears.▼
* [[Tragic Keepsake]]: Amaranta's black bandage.
* {{spoiler|[[Trippy Finale Syndrome]].}}
▲* [[Tsundere]]: As mentioned, Meme is a Type B. Normally a rebellious and somewhat vain [[Genki Girl]], she goes all tsuntsun when Mauricio appears.
* [[Twin Switch]]: José Arcadio Segundo and Aureliano Segundo, so much that the family traits associated with their names are swapped. {{spoiler|Lampshaded when their coffins are accidentally switched at the last minute.}}
* [[The Voiceless]]: Meme becomes this after
* [[Walking the Earth]]: José Arcadio, although he returns after going around the world sixty-five times. Melquíades and his band of [[Roma]] also do this (they've been just about everywhere, too).
* [[What Beautiful Eyes!]]: Aureliano Amador, one of the 17 Aurelianos, had deep [[Green Eyes]] contrasting with his dark skin.
** Also, Mauricio Babilonia. Fernanda was surprised when he saw him for the first and only time and looked into his deep [[Brown Eyes]]... and then she kicked him out of the Buendia house.
* [[Wife Husbandry]]: Little Remedios and Aureliano, who's old enough to be her father. Well, she ''was'' [[Wise Beyond Their Years|smarter and more mature than the average girl]], but still, he proposes marriage when she's just ''nine''…
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* [[Wise Beyond Their Years]]: As mentioned, Little Remedios matured ''very'' quickly after marrying Aureliano, becoming [[Proper Lady|a competent and cheerful homemaker]] loved by everyone. {{spoiler|Hence, why her early death hit everyone so hard.}}
* [[
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Aureliano Babilonia and Amaranta Úrsula were both raised to believe that Aureliano Babilonia was adopted, therefore thinking that {{spoiler|being each other's [[Victorious Childhood Friend
* [[You Can't Fight Fate]]: one of the main themes of the novel.
▲* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Aureliano Babilonia and Amaranta Úrsula were both raised to believe that Aureliano Babilonia was adopted, therefore thinking that {{spoiler|being each other's [[Victorious Childhood Friend|Victorious Childhood Friends]], screwing each other and having a child}} will have no harmful consequences. They're proven wrong, with tragic consequences.
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