This is the end of week one of the One Hundred Years of Solitude Read-along, hosted by Silvia Cachia and myself. Plus, the first Jose Arcadio Buendia is among the much more entertaining personalities in the book, in my opinion. See a complete list of the characters in One Hundred Years of Solitude and in-depth analyses of José Arcadio Buendía, Colonel Aureliano Buendía, Úrsula Iguarán, and Aureliano (II). She is a nervous, rigidly formal woman who tries unsuccessfully to ignore her husband's affair with Petra Cotes. But the sexual act is always a mechanical thing, something abstract despite or because of García Márquez' sexual rhetoric (for example, "cat howls in her stomach"; "a panther-faced woman in profile"). Forever fascinated by the unknown, he is a man for whom no form of reality will ever live up … He is a natural explorer, setting off into the wilderness first to found Macondo and then to find a route between Macondo and the outside world. The patriarch of the Buendía family, José Arcadio begins as an energetic and... Úrsula Iguarán. One Hundred Years of Solitude is a 1967 novel that won Gabriel García Márquez the Nobel Prize for Literature. While my first experience was reserved, this time I … What are your impressions so far? Petra Cotes is not from Fernanda's antique lineage, nor does she have he One Hundred Years of Solitude Characters. About 100 Hundred Years of Solitude; Character List; Summary and Analysis; Section 1-4; Section 5-9; Section 10-12; Section 13-14; Section 15; Section 16-20; Character Analysis; José Arcadio Buendía; Colonel Aureliano Buendía; José Arcadio II; Melquíades, the Gypsy; Úrsula Buendía; Pilar Ternera; Gabriel García Márquez Biography; Critical Essays; The Theme of Solitude 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' follows the Buendia family through generations. She is the first and most important female character of the third generation. Aureliano Segundo marries her. All at once, the novel is: One hundred years of solitude is a fictional work of art by former Spanish journalist and writer Gabriel Garcia. The patriarch of the Buendía family, José Arcadio begins as an energetic and... Úrsula Iguarán. Character Analysis José Arcadio Buendía The Buendía males are all enterprising, passionate dreamers, but José Arcadio Buendía is at once the most notable and the most eccentric. She... Melquíades. There are multiple levels of interpretation and symbolic reading, each of which is … About One Hundred Years of Solitude You can click and drag specific character circles to move them around the graph, and hovering over a specific circle will highlighting all of the characters connected to that circle. One Hundred Years of Solitude ; Characters; Study Guide. It's become a staple of Spanish-speaking high school curricula everywhere, mostly for being awesomely deep and so goddamn hard to understand. One Hundred Years of Solitude is a beautiful, rich, layered novel. This is my second reading. Of all the characters in the novel, Úrsula Iguarán lives the longest and sees the most new generations born. Complex readings of characters in One Hundred Years of Solitude.