Hey /lit/, I'm reading One Hundred Years of Solitude with

yes, if you're not trolling, Macondo is a metaphor/synedoche for Colombia

>>7817315

Is that Hayek?

>>7817341
Why would I be trolling? How would this even work as a trolling attempt?

Hmm, interesting. That reminds me of something that's been bugging me about this book for a while.

So, in its earliest days, Macondo was basically a paradise. People were equal, well-fed, and free. Nobody lacked for anything, and there were no real political divisions in the town. The only authority that existed was informal, and the townspeople were quite happy with that. They were also pleased with the person in whom authority was invested.

But that's not what Colombia was really like then, was it? Is it that Gárcia Márquez genuinely believes that life was wonderful before, or is there something I'm not seeing?

>>7817347
No, it's Gabriel Gárcia Márquez.

bumping out of interest

>>7817373
>But that's not what Colombia was really like then, was it? Is it that Gárcia Márquez genuinely believes that life was wonderful before, or is there something I'm not seeing?

Maybe is about an utopic state before the spaniards came. It mentions something about some prehistoric eggs in the first pages.

>>7818295
I read it a long time ago, but I always interpreted the beginning (foundation of Macondo, crossing the impenetrable jungle, taming nature) as the Spaniards arriving to America and founding the colony. It may be because I'm Spanish myself and I'm biased, but I can't recall any event on the book that could correspond with the massive impact that the arrival of the Spaniards would have had over Macondo if it was a native settlement.

I may be wrong tho, as I said I read it long ago.

>>7817315
>I know a tiny bit of Colombian history, mostly from Open Veins of Latin America
So you don't know shit

>>7818320

The Spaniards were fine in marquez's view I think Macondo really went to shit when the train brought the gringos and the banana plantations started.