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Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a native of Colombia, and his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude is said to represent the common history of the Latin American people, their struggles with modernization, revolution, and daily life.

Scholars have termed Marquez's unique literary style "**magical realism**," a type of writing that incorporates into a very realistic plot elements of supernatural forces. This artistic movement, which **originated in Latin America during the 20th century**, blends characteristics of realism, fantasy, and surrealism. One Hundred Years of Solitude also resembles a historical fiction novel, although the authority figures and armed conflicts in the story are all fabricated by the author.