The Magic Mirror Of The Lonely Maze

One Hundred Years of Solitude, taking as its subject matter the tropical town Macondo and its construction, development, culmination and disappearing in the hurricane during a historical period of over a hundred years, is a renowned work of magic realism written in Spanish by the Columbian writer Garcia Marquez, describing the legendary and hard experience of seven generations of the Buendia clan. This work, characterized by sophisticated content, numerous characters, weird plot and novel technique, "gathers unimaginable miracles and most pure real life" and stands out in the "Exploding" literature in Latin America where one after another super writers and master pieces of art appear, and has produced far reaching influence worldwide.Observing from writing methods, if realism is a mirror of the society, then magic realism under Marquez's pen is like a distortion one, which is veiled but indirectly mirrors the cruel life of the actual world through its magic reflection. And in his work One Hundred Years of Solitude, Marquez combines such images and ideas as reality and delusion, realism and exaggeration, reality and absurdity, symbolism and metaphor, seriousness and sarcasm, man and ghost in the artistic way of typical magic realism, thus reflects such social reality of Latin-America as poor and backward, ignorant and barbarous, isolated from the outside world, which will necessarily lead to be rooted out as its destiny.Like other writers agitated by "Latin American consciousness", solitude has also been the theme of Marquez's writings. Solitude is a sort of unavoidable experience in anyone's actual life, which means separation between people and isolation from the outside world. Solitude is like a great labyrinth. The cherishment and disillusionment of Buendia clan in a century in One Hundred Years of Solitude mirrors the downfall and struggle and defeat and fight of the Latin-American people in solitude, and uncovers the answer of the riddle—loss of love resulting in the tragedy of society and life. Thereby Marquez finds out that solitude is the cause of Latin-America's backwardness, and points out that love and unity is the right way to finish solitude.This paper is divided into three chapters. The first chapter introduces the real picture of Latin American society, colonized history and mixed cultural structures as the background of magic realist origin, and development of magic realism and the writing rule of "changing the reality into imagination but losing nothing of reality". It also writes how formed and manifested is the theme "solitude" in Marquez's work, and what features of solitude and essence are shown in one hundred years of solitude in the mirror of magic. The second chapter, the center of the whole paper, tries to interpret from the text analysis viewpoint the century-old labyrinth of the clan. The first section dictates the life forms in the Buendia clan, how is the clan created and existed in Macondo and its rise and fall during more than a century. This section shows these connotation in a special way, souls and forms of life and death of a variety become different carrier of solitude; The second section probes the inner cause resulting in the solitude of Buendia clan as: inertia and stagnation from weird circulation, which finally results in Macondo's backwardness and inability to advance or development; the aggression of outside civilization and economy breaks the happiness and tranquil of Macondo, leading it to short and miraculous flourish and quick fall, the following social disorder and catastrophe leaves Macondo in an inextricable solitude; the transformation of humanity, distortion of personality and loss of faith caused by religious colonization leaves Macondo in vacancy of spiritual support in the cold world and loss of self in the turbulences and bustling. Having fought to get rid of the past but been deliberately refused, Macondo walks to its necessary destiny; one after another wars have not brought rise or freedom for Macondo, neither have they changed dictatorship or monarchy, instead, they brought double fetters of war and despotism. And such turbulences brought by the wars implied the resulting solitude and isolation. The third section analyzes solitude due to performance of literature techniques. Ways of narration imply potential of solitude: cycling method in the work structure, narrative perspectives and sentence patterns shapes a sense of repetition and closeness, showing tacitly the embodiment of this century-old clan, revealing the theme of solitude of the work, and shows the great changes in Macondo and even the whole Latin-America; such rhetoric methods as symbolization, metaphor and alienation derives a sense of solitude; the amnesia suffered in Macondo reveals solitude from the existing nothingness: being without memory equals death. And the third chapter searches for the key for cracking the century-old clan's labyrinth of solitude: love and unity. The author writes that solitude is the cause of ignorance and backwardness, in the meantime, he discloses the potential power hidden in the Latin-American people, and thus enough to confront solitude and death. This consists his true intention for this writing.