![]() ![]() ![]() The writer turned his car around and rushed back home to Mexico City. Right there on the road, in a stroke of brilliant insight, the writer came up with the first sentence of a novel that would change world literature: “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.” A new book by Ransom Center guest curator and Whitman College assistant professor Álvaro Santana-Acuña– Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic (Columbia University Press, August 2020), explores how the novel achieved success and what it reveals about how a work of literature becomes a classic.ĭuring the summer of 1965, as an unknown writer was driving from Mexico City to Acapulco for a vacation with his wife and two children, a cow crossed the road in front of his car. Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez’s masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude, was published on May 30, 1967. Explore the Harry Ransom Center, search digital collections, or plan your visit. ![]()
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