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Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.49,0:00:11.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One day in 1965, while driving to Acapulco\Nfor a vacation with his family,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.89,0:00:17.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colombian journalist Gabriel García \NMárquez abruptly turned his car around,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.41,0:00:21.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,asked his wife to take care of the\Nfamily’s finances for the coming months,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.64,0:00:24.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and returned home.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.47,0:00:28.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The beginning of a new book \Nhad suddenly come to him:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.69,0:00:31.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Many years later, \Nas he faced the firing squad,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.79,0:00:36.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember \Nthat distant afternoon
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.12,0:00:40.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when his father took him to discover ice.”
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.18,0:00:42.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over the next eighteen months,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.01,0:00:46.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those words would blossom \Ninto One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.31,0:00:49.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A novel that would go on \Nto bring Latin American literature
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.54,0:00:52.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the forefront \Nof the global imagination,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.01,0:00:57.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,earning García Márquez \Nthe 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.21,0:01:00.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What makes One Hundred Years of Solitude \Nso remarkable?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.86,0:01:03.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The novel chronicles the fortunes\Nand misfortunes
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.83,0:01:07.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Buendía family \Nover seven generations.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.58,0:01:10.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With its lush, detailed sentences,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.46,0:01:14.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,large cast of characters,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.11,0:01:17.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and tangled narrative,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.10,0:01:21.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One Hundred Years of Solitude \Nis not an easy book to read.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.50,0:01:23.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it’s a deeply rewarding one,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.73,0:01:27.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with an epic assortment \Nof intense romances,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.61,0:01:29.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,civil war,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.07,0:01:30.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,political intrigue,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.87,0:01:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,globe-trotting adventurers,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.00,0:01:37.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and more characters \Nnamed Aureliano than you’d think possible.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.68,0:01:39.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet this is no mere historical drama.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.99,0:01:43.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One Hundred Years of Solitude \Nis one of the most famous examples
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.40,0:01:49.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a literary genre \Nknown as magical realism.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.09,0:01:51.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here, supernatural events or abilities
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.52,0:01:55.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are described in a realistic \Nand matter-of-fact tone,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.08,0:01:57.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while the real events of human life \Nand history
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.66,0:02:01.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reveal themselves \Nto be full of fantastical absurdity.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.81,0:02:05.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Surreal phenomena within the\Nfictional village of Macondo
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.63,0:02:11.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,intertwine seamlessly with events taking\Nplace in the real country of Colombia.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.29,0:02:14.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The settlement begins \Nin a mythical state of isolation,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.53,0:02:17.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but is gradually exposed \Nto the outside world,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.64,0:02:20.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,facing multiple calamities along the way.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.38,0:02:23.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As years pass, \Ncharacters grow old and die,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.62,0:02:25.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only to return as ghosts,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.76,0:02:29.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or to be seemingly reincarnated \Nin the next generation.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.72,0:02:32.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the American fruit company \Ncomes to town,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.32,0:02:36.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so does a romantic mechanic who is\Nalways followed by yellow butterflies.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.93,0:02:39.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A young woman up and floats away.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.14,0:02:43.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Although the novel moves forward \Nthrough subsequent generations,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.21,0:02:46.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,time moves in an almost cyclical manner.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.41,0:02:50.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many characters have similar names \Nand features to their forebears,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.18,0:02:52.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whose mistakes they often repeat.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.88,0:02:56.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Strange prophecies \Nand visits from mysterious gypsies
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.09,0:03:01.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,give way to the skirmishes \Nand firing squads of repeated civil wars.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.13,0:03:04.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An American fruit company opens \Na plantation near the village
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.65,0:03:07.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ends up massacring thousands \Nof striking workers,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.87,0:03:12.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mirroring the real-life \N‘Banana Massacre’ of 1928.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.73,0:03:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Combined with the novel’s magical realism,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.00,0:03:19.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this produces a sense \Nof history as a downward spiral
Dialogue: 0,0:03:19.06,0:03:21.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the characters seem powerless to escape.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.49,0:03:25.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Beneath the magic is a story \Nabout the pattern of Colombian
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.02,0:03:28.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Latin American history \Nfrom colonial times onward.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.81,0:03:32.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a history that \Nthe author experienced firsthand.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.71,0:03:37.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gabriel García Márquez grew up\Nin a Colombia torn apart by civil conflict
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.70,0:03:40.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between its Conservative \Nand Liberal political parties.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.90,0:03:43.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He also lived in an autocratic Mexico
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.38,0:03:47.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and covered the 1958 Venezuelan \Ncoup d’état as a journalist.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.99,0:03:52.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But perhaps his biggest influences \Nwere his maternal grandparents.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.36,0:03:57.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nicolás Ricardo Márquez was a\Ndecorated veteran of the Thousand Days War
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.13,0:04:01.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whose accounts of the rebellion against\NColombia's conservative government
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.06,0:04:04.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,led Gabriel García Márquez \Nto a socialist outlook.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.88,0:04:09.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Meanwhile, Doña Tranquilina Iguarán Cotes’\Nomnipresent superstition
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.73,0:04:13.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,became the foundation \Nof One Hundred Years of Solitude’s style.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.74,0:04:17.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their small house in Aracataca \Nwhere the author spent his childhood
Dialogue: 0,0:04:17.14,0:04:20.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,formed the main inspiration for Macondo.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.58,0:04:22.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With One Hundred Years of Solitude,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.47,0:04:25.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gabriel García Márquez \Nfound a unique way
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.06,0:04:28.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to capture the unique history \Nof Latin America.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.14,0:04:33.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was able to depict the strange reality \Nof living in a post-colonial society,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.14,0:04:36.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,forced to relive \Nthe tragedies of the past.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.74,0:04:40.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In spite of all this fatalism,\Nthe novel still holds hope.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.22,0:04:41.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At his Nobel Lecture,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:41.82,0:04:45.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,García Marquez reflected \Non Latin America’s long history
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.39,0:04:48.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of civil strife and rampant iniquity.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.55,0:04:53.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yet he ended the speech by affirming the\Npossibility of building a better world,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.45,0:04:58.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to quote, “where no one will be able\Nto decide for others how they die,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.09,0:04:59.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where love will prove true
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.92,0:05:01.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and happiness be possible,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.77,0:05:05.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and where the races condemned \Nto one hundred years of solitude
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.20,0:05:09.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,will have, at last and forever,\Na second chance on earth."