One of the twentieth century’s most beloved and acclaimed novels, One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. It ranks as one of Wilde’s most important creations and among the classic achievements of its kind. For over a century, this mesmerizing tale of horror and suspense has enjoyed wide popularity. Combining elements of the Gothic horror novel and decadent French fiction, the book centers on a striking premise: As Dorian Gray sinks into a life of crime and gross sensuality, his body retains perfect youth and vigor while his recently painted portrait grows day by day into a hideous record of evil, which he must keep hidden from the world. In this celebrated work, his only novel, Wilde forged a devastating portrait of the effects of evil and debauchery on a young aesthete in late-19th-century England. While its magical perfections embody the ideal, its magical imperfections can embody our worst nightmares.īelow are eight works of magical realism to transport you into a world only marginally different from the one you’re in-yet magnificently difficult to imagine. By subtly blending elements of the fantastical into an otherwise realistic premise, magical realism both exaggerates our sense of human emotion and normalizes the extra-normal.
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