百年孤独英文读后感

　　百年孤独英文读后感

　　One Hundred Years of Solitude

　　Probably Garca Mrquez finest and most famous work. One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of a mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buenda family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, alive with unforgettable men and women, and with a truth and understanding that strike the soul. One Hundred Years of Solitude is a masterpiece of the art of fiction.

　　Plot：

　　One Hundred Years of Solitude （1967） is the story of seven generations of the Buenda Family in the town of Macondo. The founding patriarch of Macondo, Jos Arcadio Buenda, and rsula, his wife （and first cousin）， leave Riohacha, Colombia, to find a better life and a new home. One night of their emigration journey, whilst camping on a riverbank, Jos Arcadio Buenda dreams of Macondo， a city of mirrors that reflected the world in and about it. Upon awakening, he decides to found Macondo at the river side; after days of wandering the jungle, Jos Arcadio Buendas founding of Macondo is utopic.

　　Founding patriarch Jos Arcadio Buenda believes Macondo to be surrounded by water, and from that island, he invents the world according to his perceptions.Soon after its foundation, Macondo becomes a town frequented by unusual and extraordinary events that involve the generations of the Buenda family, who are unable or unwilling to escape their periodic （mostly） self-inflicted misfortunes. Ultimately, a hurricane destroys Macondo, the city of mirrors; just the cyclical turmoil inherent to Macondo. At storys end, a Buenda man deciphers an encrypted cipher that generations of Buenda family men had failed to decipher. The secret message informed the recipient of every fortune and misfortune lived by the Buenda Family generations.