The sequence of One Hundred Years of Solitude is a complex one, so it begs the question to say there is no sequence. Can we work together to determin its nature and come up with a good phrase for describing it? Look for how sequences of events operate in individual chapters as well as in sets of chapters. Often the differences between two adjacent chapters can tell us a lot about the overall structure of the book and can be a good starting point to understanding what is going on.
On another front, has anyone determined how many segments there are? Anyone other than myself?
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I counted the number of "sections" in the book and I counted 20 but I am not sure this has any significance to anything just thought that it was interesting that it is a nice even number. Enjoy your reading....
----Frank
Thank you Frank. A nice even number indeed! So the novel divides into two even groups of ten. Has anyone begun to make sense of the articulations, the breaks between these segments? How, for instance, do things change from chapter to chapter?
I think that even though the book is divided into sections, the sections are not super relative to the story as a whole and that there is a set series of events that repeat numerous time (around six). However the segments do have signs of mode switching. As in the the text before the segment does not really cohere with the text after the segment break.
Forrest,
You hit the nail on the head when you say "There is a set series of events that repeat numerous times." So, what does that tell us about this book?
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