Knopf once put it, that “many a novel is dead the day it is published.” Unexpectedly, One Hundred Years of Solitude went on to sell over 45 million copies, solidified its stature as a literary classic, and garnered García Márquez fame and acclaim as one of the greatest Spanish-language writers in history.įifty years after the book’s publication, it may be tempting to believe its success was as inevitable as the fate of the Buendía family at the story’s center. They knew, as the publishing giant Alfred A. Neither the writer nor the publisher expected much of the book. In 1967, Sudamericana Press published One Hundred Years of Solitude ( Cien años de soledad), a novel written by a little known Colombian author named Gabriel García Márquez.
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