Gabriel García Márquez

In the last decade of the nineteenth century, Rubén Darío gave literary independence to Hispano-America by inaugurating the first indigenous poetic stream, Modernism. In the mid-twentieth century, it was the Colombian Gabriel García Márquez who placed the Spanish-American narrative in the forefront of world literature with the publication of Cien años de soledad (1967). The summit of so-called magical realism, the mythical foundation of Macondo by the Buendias and the becoming of the village and the line of the founders until its extinction constitutes the nucleus of a wonderfully magical and poetic narrative, both for its overflowing fantasy and for the Subjugating style of its author, gifted as few of a prodigious "gift to tell".