Includes essays that explore the nuances of the author's fictive world. This study guide features an introductory essay by scholar Harold Bloom, notes on the contributors, and reference features such as a chronology, bibliography, and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bags of bones : a source for Cien años de soledad / David T. Haberly -- "The only mystery" in One hundred years of solitude / Keith Harrison -- Cien años de soledad : the novel as myth and archive / Roberto González Echevarría -- Women and society in One hundred years of solitude / John J. Deveny, Jr. and Juan Manuel Marcos -- "Searching for the route of inventions" : retracing the Renaissance discovery narrative in Gabriel García Márquez / Elizabeth A. Spiller -- Gabriel García Márquez's dialectic of solitude / Paul M. Hedeen -- Solitude as an effect of language in García Márquez's Cien años de soledad / Jonathan Baldo -- Metafiction as a rhetorical device in Hegel's History of absolute spirit and Gabriel García Márquez's One hundred years of solitude / Iddo Landau -- Fables of the plague years : Postcolonialism, Postmodernism, and Magic Realism in Cien años de soledad / Dean J. Irvine -- Latin American women in literature and reality : García Márquez's One hundred years of solitude / Irvin D. S. Winsboro -- Bloomsbury in Aracataca : the ghost of Virginia Woolf / Alexander Coleman -- The haunted voice : echoes of William Faulkner in García Márquez, Fuentes, and Vargas Llosa / Mary E. Davis.