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One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude. Lecture Notes Myth, Archetype, & Literary Context. The “Total N ovel”. One Hundred Years of Solitude has been referred to again and again as the “total novel” What do you think this means? Do you agree or disagree with this claim?. Through the Lens of Myth.

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

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  1. One Hundred Years of Solitude Lecture Notes Myth, Archetype, & Literary Context

  2. The “Total Novel” • One Hundred Years of Solitude has been referred to again and again as the “total novel” • What do you think this means? • Do you agree or disagree with this claim?

  3. Through the Lens of Myth • Classical and mythical • What do myths do? What function do they serve?

  4. Evidence of Myths in the Novel • Biblical Myths • Oedipal Myth

  5. Archetypes • Characters who fulfill functions and present a pattern • In One Hundred Years: Patriarch: Jose ArcadioBuendia Matriarch: Ursula Virgin: Remedios the Beauty Witches: Petra Cotes and PilarTernera Institution: ApolinarMoscote and Father Nicanor Reyna The Scientist: Jose Buendia and Melquiades

  6. Repeated Patterns • Battles Fought by Colonel AurelianoBuendia • Language • Naming These repetitions form the structure of the book.

  7. Macondo as Myth • Why was the town founded? • Have we heard this story before?

  8. How to Read Literature… We’re going to take a few minutes to read the chapter “Now Where Have I Seen Her Before?” Then we’ll make some connections.

  9. Literary Context • Magical Realism: blurs the distinction between fantasy and reality • Examples: -Gypsies on flying carpets -Insomnia Plague -Ascension of Remedios the Beauty -Levitation of Father Nicandor -Yellow Butterflies -Raining Flowers -Blood running through the streets and uphill

  10. Nobel Acceptance Speech “Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of imaginations, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable. That is the crux of our solitude.”

  11. Intertextuality • Every text refers to and changes previous texts. • Allusion • Narrative Frame in the Bible • Oedipus: Entire tragedy told by oracle

  12. Metafiction • Takes as its subject the creation of the reading of texts • Melquiadespresents Jose Arcadio with the manuscript and the family attempts to decipher it • Insomnia Epidemic: labels • Reality is not more than “momentarily captured” and it ends when the reader finishes the book TO BE CONTINUED NEXT TIME

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