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Podcast: New Books in Latin American Studies
Episode: On Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
Description: In 1967, Colombian author Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez published his masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude. Because of that book, he won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1982. One Hundred Years of Solitude is a story about life, death, endings, and beginnings. It is a novel that invites its readers to think about their own past, and accept the complex and mysterious forces that have shaped them. It calls into question our relationship to nostalgia, and the role memory plays in shaping our futures. Héctor Hoyos is an Associate Professor of Latin American literature and culture at Stanford Univ...