Most impactful thing in this entire video (not to discount the rest of the discussion, it was so good I watched it twice back to back) but having different standards of love making it so easy to be lonely. Wow.

I didn't even think about how so many of the characters made decisions leading to loneliness. Very good point. Your video reminds me of the overwhelming feeling I got about this novel: that it was portraying the changes of time on the village.

Really appreciated the notes on the translation you included. As a monolingual person, we forget how much a novel can change in translation and how we can lose nuance; thank you for restoring a little of that. 🙂 Fantastic review.

Love your channel, man. Keep it going I need to read cien años de soledad again.

Great vid. Some great points here. Great work, keep it up.

No words other than that was beautiful visually and in its analysis.

Thanks for insight and the channel recommendations 👍🏽

I just finished this book and I am awestruck, it was a rolercoaster of emotions for me, read it in portuguese-br with an impecable translation, definitely one of my all time favourite books

It's not everyday you find a guy standing up wearing a Star wars T-shirt, with his hair sweep alternating from left to right, while he narrates his critique without missing a beat; and talking about one of the greatest ever novels. And in my post-Christmas solitude I loved it.

Thanks for the thoughtful and insightful review! I was drawn to your review after hearing your thoughts on “The Brothers Karamazov”. I was interested to see how you at least talked about “Trigger Warnings”. While I found the writing in “100 Years of Solitude” engaging, and I love magical realism as a genre, the crude sexual references, bestiality, pedophilia, and incest really put me off. What I really found strange was that NONE of the commenters I found discussed that aspect of the novel and would love to hear others thoughts on the topic. The only justification I can see for these elements was to heighten the sense of the family’s isolation. What I took away from “100 Years of Solitude” is that isolation (physical, emotional, or spiritual; of the individual or of a group) leads to suffering, decline, and decay. Is this respect I was reminded of Poe’s “Fall of the House of Usher” a great deal. Thanks again for the thought provoking content!

Great video guys

Fantastic thoughts Una. The ways Love and Loss are shown in this text are too many to name, what a ride 😊

I recently re-read "Cien años de soledad" which, this time round, had an immense impact on me. The book displays a powerful and most expressive narrative right out of the gates. The Spanish is both beautiful and evocative, and words are expertly crafted. Interestingly, you're not likely to find such vibrant, imaginative and expressive use of Spanish in peninsular Spanish literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. When Macondo, the imaginary place where the action takes place, was settled, "the world was new and things were waiting to be named", the narrator said at the outset. And that is exactly the impression conveyed by the narrative, that a primaeval world is being described to the reader, to whom all seems new and magical. I did not resonate with Una's review in this video until 8'35''. I didn't think of the meaning of love nor even of the meaning of loneliness as such while reading the book. The book instead made me reflect on my life, family, genealogy and the society I live in. On top of that it's made me ponder on the different roles of males and females when building families and societies. In this novel, men seem driven by inventive, creative and somewhat reckless and destructive forces while females represent the amalgamating forces that allow families and life at large to go on. Ursula is the best example of that. Jorge Luis Borges once said genially that "Cien años de soledad" was a fairly good novel, but maybe fifty years too long". I only partially agree with this. It's true that after the first 150 pages or so the narration seems to grow somewhat tedious, where magic events and newborn Buendía offspring with recurring names become routine. But then the story regains momentum and reaches a fantastic climax by the end.

Wonderful explanation, still wondering why this video is so underrated !!

Wonderful analysis, that use of 'unwinding' resonated enormously. The graphics, mate! Too awesome!!

Wonderful video Una 😊

❤️ this. That's an interesting comparison to Canterbury Tales.

Una. WT... This is FABULOUS!! 🤯🤯🤯

I learned a lot from this! One if my favorite novels. Great job, Una!

The colonel is actually acting almost entirely out of listless pride, certainly wasn’t trying to create some perfect utopia. His choices were based in selfishness, boredom, and yes perhaps most of all coldness.

What I got from this video is the fact that 100 years of solitude basically means that the family spent 100 years without finding love! Not a single one of them found the love of their life and even tho they had happy moments, no one was ever HAPPY!

I recommend reading The Courthouse, the introduction to William Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun. Over 40 or so pages, Faulkner tells us of the foundation of the city of Jefferson. Towards the end of that intro, he speaks of things that will remain after a hundred years and of things that will not remain. There are echoes of Jefferson in the foundation of Macondo, but of course the most important part of GGM's storytelling are the stories he heard from his maternal grandparents as he grew up as a child. I read Cien años de soledad when I was 17 years old, and re-read it the following summer. I read Requiem for a Nun 30 years later.

Kindly discuss intertextuality in the novel one hundred years of solitude

I really want to read this novel after watching Encanto

hold up, col.B wife died before he had the tons of sons, right?

Amatonormativity much?