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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

To what does the "solitude" of the title refer?

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Why is Jose Arcadio's death made comic (pp. 131-2)?

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What is the meaning of the plague of insomnia? What brings it on?

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What's with all the little gold fishes?

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Does time in Macondo go in a circle, or backward, or forward?

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What is intended by the return of several characters (Melquiades, Jose Arcadio Buendia, Prudencio Aguilar) from the dead?

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Is Macondo a lost paradise?

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What advantage is there to the confusing profusion of similar names (Jose, Arcadio, Remedios, et al.)?

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Is Melquiades the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude?

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