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(A) García Márquez’s real-life political leanings are decidedly revolutionary, even communist: he is a friendof Fidel Castro.
(B) García Márquez’s native town of Aracataca is the inspiration for much of his fiction, and readers of OneHundred Years of Solitude may recognize many parallels between the real-life history of GarcíaMárquez’s hometown and the history of the fictional town of Macondo.
(C) García Márquez’s masterpiece, however, appeals not just to Latin American experiences, but to largerquestions about human nature.
(D) Latin America once had a thriving population of native Aztecs and Incas, but, slowly, as Europeanexplorers arrived, the native population had to adjust to the technology and capitalism that the outsidersbrought with them.
(E) When One Hundred Years of Solitude was published in his native Spanish in 1967, as Cien años desoledad, García Márquez achieved true international fame; he went on to receive the Nobel Prize forLiterature in 1982.