He unveils the literary ideas and networks that made possible the book’s creation and initial success. Using new documents from the author’s archives, Álvaro Santana-Acuña shows how García Márquez wrote the novel, going beyond the many legends that surround it. How did One Hundred Years of Solitude achieve this unlikely success? And what does its trajectory tell us about how a work of art becomes a classic?Īscent to Glory is a groundbreaking study of One Hundred Years of Solitude, from the moment García Márquez first had the idea for the novel to its global consecration. Translated into dozens of languages, it continues to enter the lives of new readers around the world. Yet today it ranks among the best-selling books of all time. The little-known author, small publisher, magical style, and setting in a remote Caribbean village were hardly the usual ingredients for success in the literary marketplace. Keywords: otherness, trauma, psychopathology, identity.Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude seemed destined for obscurity upon its publication in 1967. In a second moment, a determinant aspect of the subjective experience of otherness will be focalized, that is, the traumatic impact lived by a subject when confronted with the radical otherness.
Different levels and types of disturbs inflicted to individual identities by the impacts produced by otherness will be analyzed in identities that could be considered as already constituted. As a starting point, the self experience of otherness is discussed through Vitangelo Moscarda character, in Luigi Pirandello's romance Uno, nessuno e centomilla ("One, none and one hundred thousand"). Dialogues between a modern literature character and the philosophy of Emmanuel Lévinas and also psychoanalitical theories and practice shall establish the yearned theorization. The main purpose of this paper is to contribute to a more profound theorization of the impasses suggested by the oppositions identity/otherness and sameness/difference in the psychopathological studies of traumatic experiences.
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