Cien años de soledad de Gabriel García Márquez. Resumen por capítulos

Brief Summary

This video provides a detailed summary of Gabriel García Márquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude," chapter by chapter. It covers the Buendía family's history, their struggles, loves, and the cyclical nature of their fate in the isolated town of Macondo. The summary includes key events, character developments, and the ultimate demise of the family and the town.

  • The story begins with José Arcadio Buendía's fascination with inventions and his quest to connect Macondo to the world.
  • Incest, war, and plagues haunt the family, leading to a series of tragic events.
  • The arrival of the banana company brings both prosperity and violence to Macondo.
  • The final generation faces the consequences of their ancestors' actions, fulfilling a prophecy of destruction.

Introducción

Javier introduces "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez, encouraging viewers to subscribe, like, and share the video.

Chapter 1

Colonel Aureliano Buendía recalls his childhood when his father, José Arcadio Buendía, introduced him to ice. The chapter describes Melquíades, a gypsy, who brings inventions like magnets, telescopes, and alchemical equipment to Macondo. José Arcadio becomes obsessed with these inventions, neglecting his family and community. He attempts to find a route to the capital but fails, leading him to spend more time with his children, telling them stories. The arrival of travelers with a block of ice interrupts one of these stories, marking a significant moment of discovery for the town.

Chapter 2

Before Macondo, José Arcadio and Úrsula, who are cousins, fear having children with birth defects due to their close relation. Úrsula wears chastity pants to avoid pregnancy. After José Arcadio kills Prudencio Aguilar in a duel, whose ghost haunts them, they leave their town with other young families and found Macondo. They have three children: José Arcadio, Aureliano, and Amaranta. Later, travelers bring a circus and a flying carpet to Macondo. Pilar Ternera becomes pregnant by José Arcadio, who then leaves with the travelers. Úrsula searches for him and discovers a route to the capital, making Macondo a growing commercial center.

Chapter 3

Pilar gives birth to Arcadio. Macondo becomes a commercial center due to Ursula's efforts. José Arcadio invests in the town's future by synchronizing clocks. Aureliano spends time in his father's alchemical laboratory. Rebeca arrives, bringing insomnia to Macondo. The family contracts the plague, and Ursula tries to cure it with herbal sleeping pills, causing hallucinations. Melquíades returns and introduces José Arcadio to the daguerreotype. Ursula expands her business and builds an expansion to the house. A magistrate orders all houses to be painted blue, leading to a confrontation with José Arcadio. Aureliano falls in love with Remedios, the magistrate's daughter.

Chapter 4

Úrsula celebrates the new house expansion with a dance and buys a player piano. Pietro Crespi, an Italian expert, teaches them how to use it. José Arcadio disassembles the piano, causing it to sound out of tune. Pietro returns to repair it, and Rebeca falls in love with him. Aureliano writes poetry for Remedios. He gets drunk and confesses his feelings to Pilar. José Arcadio consents to Aureliano marrying Remedios if Rebeca can marry Pietro. Amaranta opposes the weddings. José Arcadio asks the magistrate for permission for Aureliano to marry Remedios. Melquíades' health deteriorates and he dies. Pietro visits Rebeca, bringing mechanical toys. Rebeca asks Pilar about her future, learning she won't be happy until her parents are buried. José Arcadio finds and buries Rebeca's father's bones. The ghost of Prudencio returns. José Arcadio is tied to a tree due to his madness.

Chapter 5

Aureliano and Remedios marry. Rebeca is upset because her wedding to Pietro is postponed. Amaranta is accused of writing a false letter to delay Rebeca's wedding and tries to poison her. Father Nicanor Reina arrives to officiate the wedding and build a church. Remedios dies of blood poisoning while pregnant. Amaranta feels guilty. José Arcadio returns, physically changed from his time as a sailor. He wins money by raffling himself off. Pietro courts Amaranta. Apolinar Moscote is worried about the liberals wanting war. Aureliano becomes a liberal and visits a quack doctor. War comes to Macondo, and Don Apolinar Moscote has Dr. Alirio Noguera executed. Aureliano organizes his friends, takes the army garrison, and becomes Colonel Aureliano, leaving Macondo to join the revolutionary general Victorio Medina.

Chapter 6

The chapter provides an overview of Colonel Aureliano Buendía's life after leaving Macondo. Arcadio rules Macondo as a tyrant, imposing compulsory military service and punishing people. Úrsula whips Arcadio and becomes the new ruler, reversing his rules. Pietro falls in love with Amaranta, but she rejects him, leading to his suicide. Arcadio seeks Pilar for sex, but she rejects him and sends Santa Sofia de La Piedad in her place. They have a daughter. Young José Arcadio steals land and taxes others. Úrsula discovers Arcadio's embezzlement. Colonel Gregorio Stevenson arrives with a message from Colonel Aureliano Buendía. Arcadio surrenders to save lives and property. The army arrives, annihilates the soldiers, and executes Arcadio.

Chapter 7

Colonel Aureliano is captured and taken to Macondo to be executed. He gives Ursula his poetry about Remedios and is left in jail with a revolver. The military delays the execution. A sex worker tries to avoid taking the military as clients. An order arrives to shoot the Colonel. Rebeca wakes up early, expecting to see the Colonel. The firing squad picks him up, but José Arcadio leaves his house with a shotgun, causing the firing squad to leave. The Colonel is freed and joins a new war. He returns to Macondo and finds Arcadio's children with Santa Sofia de La Piedad. Pilar warns him to be careful. Colonel Gerineldo Márquez decides to marry Amaranta, who refuses. José Arcadio and Rebeca move into a large house. José Arcadio dies in his bedroom, and Rebeca claims she saw nothing. The blood follows a path to Ursula's kitchen. Rebeca retires to her house. José Arcadio receives visits from the ghost of Prudencio Aguilar. When he dies, yellow flowers fall from the sky.

Chapter 8

The war between conservatives and liberals ends. Colonel Buendía sends a message to Márquez to prepare to leave. A new school is built in Macondo, attended by Aureliano II, José Arcadio II, and Remedios la Bella. Aureliano José and Amaranta have a physical relationship but never consummate it. When she rejects him, he leaves for war but deserts to return to Macondo and marry her. Aureliano José enters her room and tries to force her, but she rejects him. Women bring Colonel Aureliano Buendía's children to be baptized in Macondo. Ursula writes down their names. Aureliano Jose is shot to death. Colonel Aureliano Buendía returns to Macondo, captures him, and puts the Conservative government on trial. Ursula attempts to save Mayor General Moncada but fails. Moncada is executed.

Chapter 9

Colonel Gerineldo Marquez pursues Amaranta, who continually rejects him. Colonel Aureliano Buendía loses control and is no longer involved in political decision-making. He demands a 10-foot distance from everyone. He calls an assembly of liberal rebel commanders. Upon his return to Macondo, Buendía's son continues. When a liberal group travels to see him, he ignores them for weeks. He gives in to demands that echo his conservative establishment. Colonel Gerineldo Marquez disagrees, and Buendía sends him to prison. Instead of executing his friend, Buendía asks him to help him end the war. The week before the armistice, Colonel Aureliano Buendía destroys his possessions and burns his poetry. He asks his doctor where his heart is, and his doctor draws a circle on his chest with mud. On the day of the armistice, the colonel signs the documents and shoots himself in the chest, but survives. He writes letters to the president about pensions for veterans and is confined to his room in Úrsula's house.

Chapter 10

Aureliano II and José Arcadio II are often mistaken for each other. Aureliano II visits the ghost of Melquíades, while José Arcadio II wants to witness an execution. Petra Cotes arrives in Macondo and has sex with both brothers, all three contracting a sexually transmitted infection. Aureliano II keeps Petra as his mistress, believing she brings fortune to his fields and animals. José Arcadio II wants to set up a line of boats to Macondo but only brings back a bag of logs with French ladies. They organize a carnival, and Remedios the Beautiful is named queen. Aureliano Segund walks through the streets dressed as a tiger. Fernanda del Carpio is brought to Macondo and shares the title of carnival queen with Remedios. During the carnival, shouts in favor of the liberal party incite shooting. Aureliano segund marries Fernanda. Ursula scolds Aureliano segund for not being responsible with his money, so he papers his entire house with pesos. Colonel Aureliano Buendía retires to his workshop and makes small goldfish for sale.

Chapter 11

Aureliano Segund returns from his honeymoon but continues seeing Petra. Fernanda leaves town after seeing a picture of Petra wearing her dress. He convinces her to return and share Aureliano with Petra. Fernanda does not get along with the family, closes the Buen Día house, and implements formal dinners. Fernanda and Aureliano Segundo have a son, José Arcadio, and a daughter, Renata Remedios. The president celebrates a jubilee for Colonel Aureliano Buen Día, who rejects it. His 17 children arrive in Macondo for the celebrations. Aureliano Seg organizes a party and tries to get her to stay in Macondo and work for him. Amaranta convinces them to go to church for Ash Wednesday. Aureliano triste decides to stay in Macondo and visits Rebeca's old house. Aureliano Centeno decides to stay in Macondo as well. Aureliano triste decides that Macondo needs rail access and leaves to start the railway. Aureliano Centeno stays on and works in an ice factory. Aureliano triste arrives with the first train from Macondo.

Chapter 12

Aureliano triste brings light and a telephone to Macondo. Light bulbs allow night lighting, and the city builds its first movie theater. Mr. Herbert arrives in town by train and eats several bunches of bananas. He leaves Macondo and brings back Mr. Jack Brown. They plan to plant bananas, bringing more sex workers to the city. The beautiful remedy sews a sack dress. A strange man looks at her while she bathes, she falls through the ceiling and dies on the bathroom floor. One day while she is folding sheets in the garden, she floats up into the sky and is never seen again. The banana company brings dictatorial foreigners and murderers who take over as police officers. These police officers kill a grandfather and a grandson. Colonel Aureliano Buendía promises that his sons will kill them in Vengeance. The assassins pursue all 17 children, except for Aureliano Amador, who flees to the mountains. Colonel Aureliano Buendía tries to convince Ursula to tell him where the gold coins are buried.

Chapter 13

Úrsula gradually loses her sight and turns to other senses. She memorizes other people's routines and raises the boy José Arcadio. She realizes that Colonel Aureliano Buendía is capable of love, and Rebeca is the only truly brave member of the family. Ursula sends young José Arcadio to the seminary. Meme: Renata Remedios learns to play the harpsichord at a boarding school. Amaranta works on her own shroud. Aureliano Segundo spends much more time at Petra's house, where he organizes parties and sacrifices animals. He holds eating contests. Meme returns home. Aureliano Segundo and Fernanda pretend they don't live separate lives. Meme is prone to excesses and invites over 70 classmates and teachers to his vacation home. José Arcadio II becomes close to Colonel Aureliano Buendía. The colonel repeatedly models small goldfish out of the same materials. He watches a circus pass by and then dies standing up in the courtyard.

Chapter 14

Meme finishes his studies and gives harpsichord concerts. Fernanda allows him more freedom to spend time away from home with his friends. Aureliano segund pampers meme and buys her whatever she wants. At a dance, she befriends the Americans affiliated with the banana company and starts going to all their parties. Aureliano segi buys her a six volume English encyclopedia. Death visits amaranta and tells her that the day she finishes weaving her own shroud she will die. She dies during one of meme's harpsichord concerts. Meme begins an affair with Mauricio Babilonia, a mechanic from the banana company. They meet at the movies and at Pilar's house, where they have sex. Pilar gives meme recipes for contraceptives that don't work.

Chapter 15

Fernanda discovers that her daughter is meeting Mauricio for sex and tries to confine herself to her room. Meme starts meeting Mauricio in the bathroom of the house. Fernanda asks the mayor of Macondo to place a guard in the backyard. The guard shoots Mauricio, paralyzing him for life. Fernanda takes meme to the town where he grew up. He finally disappears in what Mauricio tells meme who is dead without saying. Fernanda delivers meme to the same convent boarding school where he received his own education. Fernanda writes to José Arcadio meme's brother and tells him that he died of black vomit. Meme gives birth to a son, Aureliano. Fernando refuses to let Aureliano leave the house and keeps him hidden. Civil unrest and protests reach Macondo in the form of demonstrations against the rail company. The leaders of the movement including José Arcadio segund are imprisoned. Workers try to trap Mr. Brown from the banana company into signing a list of their demands. The factory workers organize a major strike and military regiments arrive in Macondo. Soldiers begin work, which was stopped by the strikers, but the workers sabotaged the strike and many of the foreign workers from the banana company left. The authorities summon the workers to the center of Macondo to be approached by a provincial leader who wants to mediate the conflict. José Arcadio Segund waits in the town square of Macondo. Management realizes that machine guns and artillery are being installed in the town. The workers wait for hours until an army lieutenant reads aloud the military decree authorizing the army to shoot to kill. A captain tells the crowd that they must leave the square in 5 minutes. After 5 minutes, the army opens fire and massacres them all. José Arcadio Segund tries to escape with a child, but they are caught and killed. José Arcadio Segund wakes up on the ground from a freight train heading for the coast surrounded by the corpses of the workers. He jumps off the train and walks back to macondo. When he returns there is no evidence of the massacre. Aureliano segund reads a statement stating that the workers abandoned the station and returned to their homes and reduced their demands to two to which the rail company agreed. A torrential downpour breaks out in macondo and the rail company announces a festival once the rain stops. The military continues to search for strikers in macondo and people disappear at night. Official sources deny any violence. Jose arcadio segund is the only survivor of the massacre. The military arrives at the buendía house looking for him but does not recognize him and he escapes certain death. Jose arcadio II remains locked in the room for more than 6 months reading the writings of melquíades.

Chapter 16

The rains continue in Macondo for almost 5 years. Aurelian II spends time at fernanda's house and takes care of the children amaranta Ursula and little Aureliano, son of Meme, who makes up stories. Fernanda struggles with uterine pain and consults doctors by mail who seem potentially fraudulent. Aureliano Segund visits Petra's house to see how the animals are doing and discovers that almost all of them are dead. When he returns to the house. Good morning, Fernanda tells him that they are almost out of food and has an outburst of grievances that lasts all day. He asks her to stop, but she doesn't. She destroys domestic beings. She leaves the house and returns with some poor quality food. The children play with the old woman Ursula as if she were a large human doll. They dress her up and paint her face. Aureliano Segund hires an excavation team to try to finally find the gold buried in the yard. It digs under the house and breaks the foundations. When it stops raining, Macondo is half abandoned and rotting.

Chapter 17

José Arcadio II is the only one who remembers the banana massacre and is rotting in Melquiades' workshop. Petra and Aureliano Segund continue with their raffle business, which they call raffles. Divine Providence acquires more animals to raffle off. They give most of their money to Fernanda and they themselves remain in poverty. However, they rediscover the passion they feel for each other and fall madly in love once again. Fernanda enrolls Amaranta Ursula in school but keeps the youngest Aureliano hidden. Ursula dies and few people attend the funeral because it is so hot even the birds die. The old priest blames the plague of dead birds on a creature which he calls the anti-semitic term wandering Jew. The creature is part human with wings that were apparently cut off. The people of Macondo kill it. Rebeca dies in bed. Fernanda discovers she has a uterine prolapse and José Arcadio mails her pessaries which are intravaginal medical devices designed to help support her uterus and relieve her suffering this is sent to her from Rome. Aureliano when he finds them believes they are for witchcraft and tries unsuccessfully to solve Fernanda's medical problem by burying a chicken alive. José Arcadio II befriends Little Aureliano and teaches him to read and write as well as telling them about the banana company massacre. Aureliano Segund has difficulty breathing and hints that he is going to die. He gathers all the money he can from the raffles and sends Amaranta Ursula to Brussels to continue her education. They die at the same time Aureliano II and Jose Arcadio II. Aureliano's friends Iundi placed a wreath on his coffin that says enough cows that life is short.

Chapter 18

After Aureliano Segi's death Petra sends Fernanda a basket of food every week until Fernanda also passes away. Young Aureliano spends a lot of time at Melquiades's old workshop where Santa Sofia de Piedad brings him food and clothing. The ghost of Melquiades visits him and tells him to visit a specific bookstore in town to buy books that will help him decipher Melquiades' writings. Santa Sofia de Piedad tries to run the house alone but is a frustrated old woman packs her clothes and tells Aureliano that he will spend the rest of his life at a cousin's house. Fernanda has no idea how to do housework so Aureliano does what he can. Aureliano tries to work up the courage to ask Fernanda for permission to go to the bookstore she refuses and starts carrying the house keys with him at all times. One day Aureliano sees that she hasn't eaten the food he left for her. From the day before he finds her dead in bed wearing the queen outfit she wore on her first visit to Macondo. After Fernanda's death Aureliano works up the courage to finally visit the bookstore. Jose Arcadio arrives home from his religious studies four months later and returns permanently he calls Aureliano a bastard and ignores him. Jose Arcadio sells what's left of the house and invites the children over to play and have fun. The children tease Aureliano but they find the three sacks of gold hidden under where Ursula's bed used to be. With the money Jose Arcadio buys fancy food and alcohol he also throws all night nudist parties with the teenagers of the city after which he feels guilty and whips himself. Aureliano Amador the last of the sons of Colonel Aureliano Buendía knocks on the door and tries to enter. Two police officers who are chasing him murder him in the street. The teenagers who accompanied José Arcadio return to the house they drown him in the bathroom and steal the sacks of gold. Young Aureliano does not realize that anything has happened until he finds the body.

Chapter 19

Amaranta Ursula returns to the Buendía home with her Belgian husband Gastón whom she leads with a silk rope. She thoroughly cleans the house and companions canaries in an attempt to repopulate the birds of Macondo. Gastón collects insects eggs and butterflies as of natural history. He rides his bicycle around the city and spends time with Aureliano. Gastón tries to create an airmail service to Macondo but the plane he orders never arrives. Aureliano explores Macondo and lives by selling antiques from the house he ends up having sex with Amaranta Ursula who is his aunt and visits most nights. A sex worker called necromancers starts arguing about cockroaches with other entities at the bookstore and begins regularly visiting a brothel in the red light district of Macondo. Gastón believes that their stay in Macondo is temporary and suggests a quick trip to Belgium to understand the airmail business. Amaranta Ursula refuses to leave Macondo even though it means the end of the marriage. Aureliano goes with his bookstore friends to a zoo brothel where the elderly owner Pilar believes she is Colonel Aureliano Buendía she is Aureliano's great-great-grandmother. He cries to her for her obsession with his aunt Amaranta Ursula and she tells him that Amaranta is waiting for him. Aureliano arrives at her house and begins to rape Amaranta Ursula while her husband is in the next room. This situation is presented as almost consensual during the course of the encounter and the two maintain an ongoing sexual relationship which is the central theme of the next chapter.

Chapter 20

Pilar dies and is buried under the floor of her brothel. The bookstore closes and its owner returns to Catalonia sends Aureliano and his friends letters and photographs of his travels. Aureliano's friends leave Macondo. The old banana company has become a field of grass and the Catholic Church is in ruins. The sexual relationship of Aureliano and Amaranta Ursula continues and her husband returns to Brussels for good. Aureliano and Amaranta Ursula have passionate sex all day long. Amaranta becomes pregnant. They both live in only a few rooms of the house and let the rest deteriorate. Amaranta Ursula gives birth with the assistance of the brothel owner. The infant has a pig's tail, fulfilling the great fear of the now deceased Ursula and Ursula, as it symbolizes incest. After birth, Amaranta Ursula dies from loss of blood. In her grief, Aureliano takes the child with him while he goes out on the town. He screams drunk in the town square where a black mantle finds him unconscious and cleans him up. When Aureliano wakes up, he cannot find his little son. He finally finds the baby's corpse in the courtyard of the house. Good day, devoured by ants. Upon seeing the body, he realizes that Melquíades' writings predicted everything related to the events within the family. Good morning Aureliano decodes the scrolls when it starts to get very windy the wind intensifies while Lee tears down doors and tears out the foundations of the house he realizes that Melquiades predicted that the city of mirrors or mirages would be erased by the wind and banished from the memory of men just as the fierce wind does precisely that.

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0:00 Hello everyone, I'm Javier and no introductions are necessary. This is 100 Years of Solitude by the Colombian Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez. Don't forget to subscribe, like, and share the video. Let's [Music] begin chapter one. As Colonel Aureliano Buendía faces the firing squad, he thinks about the day his father, José Arcadio Buendía, took him to discover ice. The narrative of the firing squad serves as the framework for a chapter that deals largely with the Colonel's father. A man named Melquíades, who becomes his closest friend,

0:45 periodically arrives with a group of gypsies to the rural town of Macondo where the Colonel grew up, bringing wonders from the outside world. The gypsies bring new scientific discoveries to the town: magnets, a telescope, an astrolabe, a compass, an alchemical laboratory, and dentures. Over time, José Arcadio Buendía becomes more and more in love with the inventions brought by the gypsies. He spends his wife's meager inheritance on each new invention, although he was one of the founders of the village. He developed it into an orderly and idyllic city once he receives each new item he stops worrying about community projects and even his own children his wife Ursula Iguaran feels frustrated because he is disconnected and does not attend to any

1:32 household chores so she destroys his astrolabe Jose Arcadio Buendia becomes convinced that he needs to connect his rural and isolated town to the rest of the world so that they can access new inventions easily he sets out on a path through a tropical rainforest and discovers a Spanish galleon a type of sailboat this convinces him that it would be almost impossible to find the route that leads to the capital because Macondo must be a peninsula he undoes his missteps with the help of his children and this leads him to spend more time with them he tells them fantastic stories about the world while the colonel is about to be executed by a firing squad he remembers that one day while his father was telling him one of those fantastic stories the arrival of the travelers to the town

2:18 interrupted him mid-sentence this group larger and more active than the previous ones told him that Melquiades Jose Arcadio had died and paid them so that he and his two sons, one of whom is the colonel, could touch a large block of ice that the men carry in a chest. It describes ice as the great invention of our time. Chapter two. This chapter begins before chapter one. Before Jose Arcadio and Ursula are living in the town of Macondo, Ursula and Guaran become upset by her husband's eccentric ideas. She curses her ancestors who migrated to her hometown because that is where she met her husband. She and Jose Arcadio Buendia are cousins. In the early years of their marriage, they

3:05 fear birth defects because of their close genetic relationship. A family member from a previous generation was born with a pig's tail due to incest. Ursula's mother increases her fear of birth defects and makes Ursula wear chastity pants so that she and her husband cannot have sex. One day, when Jose Arcadio is having sex, his opponent, Prudencio Aguilar, mocks him for not having sex with his wife despite a year of marriage. José Arcadio kills him by stabbing him in the throat and when he gets home he refuses to let Úrsula wear her chastity pants The ghost of the man she killed haunts her house as she tries to stuff a handful of grass into

3:51 her throat while looking sad along with some other young families José Arcadio and Úrsula decide to leave town then on a long journey They settle on the banks of a river they find Macondo and have three children José Arcadio Aureliano and Amaranta shortly after the birth of Amaranta the third daughter of Úrsula and José Arcadio The travelers return to town this time with circus tents and a flying carpet on which they offer rides Pilar Ternera daughter of one of the founding families who maintains a sexual and romantic relationship with the young José Arcadio the son of José Arcadio and Úrsula tells him that she is pregnant gets angry and tries to have sex with one of the travelers in one of the circus tents

4:39 two days later she leaves with the travelers when they leave town her mother distressed Ursula her father chases him He searches for his wife without success, cares for the newborn Amaranta and returns to his library. 50 months later Ursulo returns with news of a nearby town previously unknown and of a route to the capital, having discovered the route that her husband could not find. Chapter Three Pilar gives birth to a son Arcadio. The people Ursula brings to Macondo, along with her news from the neighboring town and the route to the capital, make Macondo a growing commercial center. Jose Arcadio invests again in the future of his town. He synchronizes wooden bird clocks throughout town so

5:24 that they ring simultaneously. Aureliano, the second son, spends a lot of time in his father's alchemical laboratory. His father worries about him and tries to spark his interest in women. Aureliano predicts that someone is coming and they do. Rebeca is 11 years old and carries her parents' bones in a bag along with a letter of introduction from relatives whose names neither Jose Arcadio nor Ursula recognize. Rebeca eats mud and lime. After a few weeks she integrates into the family and becomes Rebeca. Good morning. Rebeca brings the ha of insomnia amac condo at first José Arcadio laughs at the idea but after several weeks he also has trouble sleeping the whole family contracts the plague Ursula tries to cure him with an

6:12 herbal sleeping pill which only causes hallucinations despite the insomnia the family members continue with their business of making candy animals this spreads the plague to the rest of the town the town quarantines itself to protect against the memory loss that accompanies the plague they stick written labels on everyday items Melquíades returns to the town he died but decided to return to the world of the living he introduces José Arcadio to the daguerreotype an early form of photography and he immerses himself in the process convinced he can use it to prove the existence of god Ursula expands her business to making breads and desserts she realizes that the family has grown substantially

6:58 so she builds an expansion to the house while they are building they arrive a magistrate sent by the government orders all the houses to be painted blue although Ursula wants to paint hers white José Arcadio Buen One day he confronts the magistrate and threatens him. The magistrate leaves but appears a week later with his family. José Arcadio decides to allow the magistrate to stay for his family and Aureliano falls in love with one of the magistrate's daughters. Remedios. Chapter cu. Ursula de ar the new house expanded with a dance buys a player piano for the occasion. The company sends an Italian expert Pietro crespi to teach them how to place the rolls of paper inside to play melodies.

7:43 José Arcadio takes apart the player piano to see how it works and does not put it back together properly, so the night of the party the music sounds out of tune and arrhythmic. Pietro returns to Macondo to repair the player piano and Rebeca falls in love with him. Her infatuation is so intense that she begins to eat handfuls of dirt again. She looks out the window every day hoping that the postman will bring her a letter from him. Aureliano continues to be in love with Remedios, although she is still a child, he writes a lot of poetry about her. One night she gets very drunk with friends, faints and wakes up. In Pilar's bed he tells her everything about his feelings for Remedios and she comforts him he tells his parents that he plans to marry her

8:30 José Arcadio consents as long as Rebeca can marry Pietro Amaranta also competes for Pietro's affections to the point that she declares that she plans to prevent any wedding even if she has to die to do so José Arcadio goes to the Moscot the magistrate's family to ask permission for Aureliano to marry Remedios they consent even though she has not yet started menstruating Aureliano visits him every afternoon for lessons Melquíades' physical and mental state deteriorates before he dies he tells his family to burn mercury in his room for three days he drowns in the river and when he dies for the second time others boil the mercury next to his body however he does not revive

9:15 when they burn the mercury so the Buendías bury him his death is the first in Macondo and his ghost haunts the Buendía house Pietro visits Rebeca at the Buendía house and every time brings a mechanical toy Rebeca is nervous because of Amaranta's threats so she asks Pilar to read her future in the letters she reveals that Rebeca will not be happy as long as her parents remain unburied José Arcadio finds the bones of Rebeca's father and buries them next to Melquíades The ghost of Prudencio returns José Arcadio convinces himself that every day is Monday And he repeats himself over and over again and in his anguish he destroys his laboratory and his workshop Aureliano asks his neighbors for help and they tie him to a

10:02 tree Chapter Five Aureliano and Remedios get married as soon as she starts menstruating Rebeca is not happy because she assumed that her wedding to Pietro would be the same day but it was postponed when he received a letter informing her that his mother was about to die he immediately traveled to the capital to see her but she was in good health Amaranta is accused of having written the letter which she denies after her plan to prevent Rebeca's wedding to Pietro fails by ruining her wedding dress he decides to poison her by putting laudanum A solution of opium and alcohol in his coffee Father Nicanor Reina arrives in Macondo to officiate the wedding and stays to run the town he decides to build

10:48 a church and goes door to door collecting for it he preaches every Sunday in the town square after mass he drinks hot chocolate and levitates one week before Rebeca's rescheduled wedding date Remedios dies of blood poisoning while pregnant with twins Amaranta feels guilty about the death because she was praying for anything to stop Rebeca's wedding which is further delayed when Ursula orders a period of mourning the family is in an extended period of mourning Jose Arcadio returns he has changed greatly both physically and mentally from his time as a sailor who supposedly made 65 voyages around the world he is

11:34 immensely muscular he is tattooed all over and crude in both words and deeds he wins money by raffling her off so the two were raised as brothers Jose Arcadio suggests Amaranta as a companion Pietro begins to court her for marriage and brings Don rare and expensive gifts Apolinar Moscote the magistrate is worried that the liberals want war he explains politics to Aureliano and has the soldiers

12:21 confiscate the votes once they are cast Moscote eliminates all but 10 of the liberal votes and replaces them with conservative votes Aureliano tells his friends that he is a liberal and they suggest he visit a quack doctor who is a failed pro-liberal agitator the war comes to Macondo although it has been raging in the rest of the country for three months Don Apolinar Moscote drags Dr. Alirio Noguera a quack who came to town with the plan unearthed by Aureliano to kill the Moscote as part of his effort to eliminate the conservatives and has him executed in the town square by an army platoon The captain leads a brutal regime in town The priest is

13:07 beaten and four men execute a woman who was bitten by a rabid dog Aureliano decides to end the violence organizes his friends He takes the army garrison by surprise and kills the captain and the soldiers The town names Arcadio the new town leader Aureliano decides to become Colonel Aureliano and leaves the town with his friends to join forces with the revolutionary general Victorio Medina Chapter Six This chapter begins with an overview of the major events in the life of Colonel Aureliano Buendia after his departure from Macondo Arcadio rules Macondo as a tyrant imposing compulsory military service kidnapping the priest and shooting an

13:54 anti-authoritarian musician he punishes the people by putting them in the stocks when he finds out that Don Apolinar Moscote said something rude about him Arcadio has his daughters whipped and ties Moscote to the firing squad Ursula is enraged by Arcadio's behavior and whips him she becomes the new ruler of the town and reverses many of Arcadio's rules she goes to bathe her husband Jose Arcadio who is still tied to the tree and tells her the family news Pietro falls in love with Amaranta and eventually goes through with their wedding however once the date is set She rejects him the rejection torments him and he commits suicide a month later Ursula buries him next to Melquiades

14:39 Arcadio looks for Pilar who he doesn't know is his biological mother to have sex she rejects him horrified but when he insists he tells him to leave the door open that night he paid a virgin named Santa Sofia de La Piedad to go to Arcadio in his place they begin to meet in secret and have a daughter together young Jose Arcadio steals land from the peasants around him and taxes others Arcadio 's son visits him to tell him that there have been complaints and offers to set up a registry office so they can both collect fees from the people Ursula discovers that Arcadio has been embezzling the registry and yells at him Colonel Gregorio Stevenson arrives in

15:24 town with a message from Colonel Aureliano Good day for Arcadio surrenders to the town to save lives and property Arcadio does not believe him he imprisons him and decides to defend the town instead of surrendering the army arrives and annihilates all the soldiers and executes Arcadio seventh chapter when they capture to Colonel Aureliano good day and they take him to Macondo to be executed Ursula is making sweets in the kitchen he gives her all his poetry about his dead wife remedies and tells him to burn it she promises to do it and they leave him in jail with a revolver the military are afraid to execute the Colonel fearing the reaction of the people of Macondo so they repeatedly delay a sex worker

16:11 tries to avoid taking the military as clients and tells one of them that the one serving the sentence will die later finally an official order arrives to shoot the Colonel so the officers form a firing squad on the day of the execution Rebe wakes up before dawn and expects to see the Colonel the firing squad picks him up and places him against the wall just before firing Jose Arcadio leaves his house with a shotgun the firing squad can't resist and leaves the city along with the Colonel who is no longer a prisoner to free an imprisoned Revolutionary general who is on their side generating a new war when they arrive it 's too late the general has already been

16:56 shot they continue traveling to collect more recruits their adventures create a mythology around the Colonel finally the colonel returns to his home in Macondo where he finds Arcadio's children with Santa Sofia de La Piedad the twins Jose Arcadio II and Aureliano Segundo and a daughter Remedios the beautiful Pilar is his fortune that warns him to be careful with his mouth drink poisoned coffee but his companion lives Colonel Gerineldo Márquez decides to marry Amar he asks her and she refuses but he says that eventually he will convince her Jose Arcadio and Rebeca move into a large house in the town square one afternoon Jose Arcadio dies in his bedroom Rebeca claims that she did not see or

17:44 hear anything the blood on his body follows a path through the streets of Macondo to Ursula's kitchen when she follows him to the Fountain she finds Jose Arcadio dead and smelling of gunpowder although he has no wounds on his body or weapon his body still smells of gunpowder even after he is dead Rebeca retires to her house and rarely goes out rest of his life near death José Arcadio receives daily social visits from the ghost of Prudencio Aguilar when he dies small yellow flowers fall from the sky like rain chapter eight the war between conservatives and liberals comes to an end although colonel Buen día wishes to continue fighting he sends a message to Márquez to choose five men and prepare to leave the two

18:31 lead guerrilla revolts at sporadic intervals a new school is built in Macondo which Aureliano II attend José Arcadio II and Remedios la Bella the son of Pilar and Aureliano Aureliano José and his aunt Amaranta maintain a physical relationship intermittently during his adolescence sleeping naked in the same bed but never consummating the relationship due to her concerns about incest and fear of having a child with a pig's tail when she rejects him he goes to sleep in the military barracks in the city later he leaves for war with the federal troops but deserts to return to Macondo and marry her Aureliano José enters her room and tries to force her to have

19:18 sexual activity but she He rejects him and locks him out of his room permanently. Women begin bringing Colonel Aureliano Buendia's children one by one to be baptized in Macondo. He has 17 children named Aureliano and the surname of their respective mothers. Ursula writes down their names and other identifying information in a ledger so that the colonel can look them up when he returns if he wishes. Aureliano Jose goes to the theater and is shot to death when he refuses to comply with the soldiers' search of the public. The captain who shoots him is killed and over 400 men approach to shoot his body. Colonel Aureliano Buendia returns to Macondo. He captures him and puts the

20:03 Conservative government on trial. Ursula attempts to save Mayor General Moncada, a personal friend of the family. She fails although the colonel agrees to send his possessions to his widow and Moncada is executed. Chapter Nine: Colonel Gerineldo Marquez pursues Amaranta. He visits her constantly for several years even though she continually rejects him. Colonel Aureliano Buendia seems to lose control of himself. the sequence of events that occur in the war and he is no longer involved in political decision making the war seems to bore him he decides that no one can come within 10 feet of him so his aides draw chalk circles marking that

20:49 distance wherever he goes he calls an assembly of the liberal rebel commanders an upstart indigenous general threatens his power upon his return to macondo buen día's son continues when a liberal group travels to see him to discuss the stalemate in the war he ignores them for weeks when he finally sees them he gives in to demands that echo his conservative establishment colonel gerineldo marquez disagrees and buen día sends him to prison where he plans to execute him but at the dawn of marquez's execution buen día changes his mind Instead of executing his friend Buendía, he asks him to help him end that shitty war once and for all. The

21:35 week before the armistice, Colonel Aureliano Buendía destroys all his possessions and erases his presence from his family home. He buries his weapons and burns all his poetry. He asks his doctor where his heart is and his doctor draws a circle on his chest with mud. On the day of the armistice, the colonel signs all the documents and retreats to a tent where he shoots himself in the chest. However, his doctor lied to him about the location of his heart so the bullet passes through cleanly and he lives. He writes scattered letters to the president of the country about pensions for veterans and is confined to his room in Úrsula's house. Chapter 10: Since they were children,

22:21 others have mistaken the brothers Aureliano I and José Arcadio I for the same person. However, as children, Aureliano Segundo spends a lot of time visiting the ghost of Melquíades in his old workshop, while José Arcadio II wants to witness an execution. He professes to be a conservative and becomes Devoted to both Catholicism and cockfighting, Petra Cotes arrives in Macondo and organizes raffles. She also thinks that the brothers are the same person and has sex with both of them. All three end up with a sexually transmitted infection. When they recover, only Aureliano II keeps her as his mistress. He is convinced that Petra has a fortunate effect

23:07 on his fields and also on his farm animals. Thanks to her presence, the animals give birth to twins and triplets. When Petra raffles rabbits, they procreate so quickly that they no longer fit in the barn. José Arcadio II wants to set up a line of boats to Macondo. He works on the course of the river until it is navigable, but only brings back a bag of logs with French ladies as passengers. They organize a carnival and the Beautiful Remedios is named queen. Aureliano Segund walks through the streets dressed as a tiger and roars. During the carnival, a golden litter with a beautiful woman named Fernanda del Carpio is taken from the Pantano to Macondo.

23:52 Aureliano Segund seats her next to Remedios the Beautiful to share. Go. title of carnival queen during the carnival celebrations someone enters the crowd in favor of the liberal party and Colonel Aureliano Buendia these shouts incite shooting and many people die the author of the shooting is not entirely clear but there are many who suspect that it is the people who accompanied Fernanda to the town returns to his hometown but six months later Aureliano segund marries her Ursula scolds Aureliano segund for not being responsible with his extra money so he papers his entire house with a peso Ursula prays for the poverty instead one of the workers who removes the money from her walls breaks

24:39 a statue of Saint Joseph which turns out to be full of gold coins Colonel Aureliano Buendia retires to his workshop and spends most of his time making small goldfish for sale spends his old age peacefully chapter 11 Aureliano seg returns from his honeymoon but can't resist returning to Petra takes a picture of her as queen wearing Fernanda's dress which offends her so much who packs her bags and leaves the town he convinces her to return and manages to briefly resist Petra who is not worried because knowing the power she has over him and keeps a pair of his boots as a souvenir Fernanda finally agrees to share with Aureliano after

25:25 he convinces her of Pet's effect on the fertility of animals as long as he does not die in Petra's bed Fernanda does not get along with the family she closes the Buen Día house which was previously open during the day she reduces the family's interactions with the town and implements formal dinners Fernanda and Aureliano Segundo have a son the fourth José Arcadio in the family and a daughter Renata Remedios the president celebrates a jubilee for Colonel Aureliano Buen Día who Buen Día rejects his 17 children arrive in Macondo for the celebrations Aureliano Seg organizes a massive party and tries to get her to stay in Macondo and work for him after the party but before

26:12 the 17 children leave Amaranta convinces them to go to church for Ash Wednesday Las Cruces that the priest He puts them on his forehead and they end up being permanent. Although the rest of the people who went to church can remove theirs. Aureliano triste, one of the 17, decides to stay in Macondo and visits Rebeca's old house in the main square to see if she will rent it to him. She points a gun at him when he tells this to the family. Good day, they lament Rebeca's old age. When the rest of the children return, they clean and repair the exterior of Rebeca's house. Aureliano Centeno decides to stay in Macondo as well. Although he is very clumsy and prone to breaking things, Aureliano triste now

26:58 decides that Macondo needs rail access. He leaves to start the railway. Aureliano Centeno stays on and works in an ice factory. 8 months later, Aureliano triste arrives with the first train from Macondo. Chapter 12 with the train. Aureliano triste brings light and a telephone to Macondo. Light bulbs allow night lighting for the first time in Macondo and the city builds its first movie theater. A stranger, Mr. Herbert, arrives in town by train. He is a hot air balloon salesman. that they are not having success in their sales Aureliano segi takes him to the Buendía house Mr. Herbert Eats only several bunches of bananas He leaves Macondo and brings back Mr.

27:44 Jack Brown As with many other white foreigners who divert the river and bring more sex workers to the city they plan to plant bananas the influx of new people from Aureliano segund who has fun with them and invites them into the house at all hours the beautiful remedy sews a sack dress and shows it off exclusively her beauty torments men although she is unaware of the effect it has on them a strange man looks at her while she bathes she falls through the ceiling and dies on the bathroom floor the townspeople begin to gossip that her smell causes death one day while she is folding sheets in the garden she floats up into the sky and is never seen again she

28:30 arrives at the banana company and brings dictatorial foreigners in addition to the murderers who take over as police officers these police officers kill a grandfather and a grandson who are buying a soda and the colonel Aureliano Buendía promises that his sons will kill them in Vengeance, however, the assassins pursue all 17 children, except for Aureliano Amador, who flees to the mountains. Colonel Aureliano Buendía tries to convince Ursula to tell him where in the courtyard all the gold coins are buried so they can start another war. He asks Colonel Gerineldo Márquez to accompany him, but Márquez refuses. Chapter 13 Ursula gradually loses her sight and turns to other senses. She

29:17 memorizes other people's routines and raises the boy José Arcadio. As she grows older, she realizes that Colonel Aureliano Buendía, who is one of her sons, is capable of love, and Rebeca is the only truly brave member of the family. Ursula packs up the things of young José Arcadio and the family. She sends him to the seminary. Meme: Renata Remedios learns to play the harpsichord at a boarding school. Amaranta works on her own shroud. Aureliano Segundo spends much more time at Petra's house, where he organizes parties and sacrifices animals. and holds eating contests during one of these contests he eats so much that he thinks he's going to die and asks to be taken back to Fernanda's house to fulfill his promise to die there in place of his concubine

30:05 instead he recovers and spends more time with his family when meme returns home Aureliano Segundo and Fernanda pretend they don't live separate lives like their father meme is prone to excesses and invites over 70 classmates and teachers to his vacation home the students eat and clean their chamber pots in turns José Arcadio II becomes close to Colonel Aureliano Buendía and spends a lot of time chatting with him in the latter's workshop the colonel repeatedly models small goldfish out of the same materials melting down the finished pieces to start over each time he watches a circus pass by and then goes to urinate in the courtyard where he dies standing up chapter four meme finishes his

30:53 studies and gives harpsichord concerts around town satisfied his mother Fernanda allows him more freedom to spend time away from home with his friends meme is aware of more of what goes on in the home than any of the adults know Aureliano segund pampers meme and buys her whatever she wants including the latest cosmetics and toiletries at a dance she befriends the Americans affiliated with the banana company and starts going to all their parties Aureliano segi buys her a six volume English encyclopedia death visits amaranta and tells her that the day she finishes weaving her own shroud she will die the day she completes it she tells everyone she will die that very day neighbors come from the

31:40 city to give her messages for their deceased loved ones and a carpenter comes to her to make her coffin Ursula begs him to reconcile with Fernanda but amaranta refuses she dies during one of meme's harpsichord concerts meme begins an affair with Mauricio Babilonia a mechanic from the banana company whose appearance is always preceded by the presence of yellow butterflies they meet at the movies and at Pilar's house where they have sex Pilar gives meme recipes for contraceptives that don't work when Fernanda discovers that her daughter is meeting Mauricio for sex she tries to confine herself to her room however meme starts meeting Mauricio in the bathroom of the house Fernanda asks the mayor of Macondo to

32:28 place a guard in the backyard under the pretext of stolen chickens The guard shoots Mauricio paralyzing him for life Fernanda takes meme to the town where he grew up on the trip the yellow butterflies follow meme for a while he finally disappears in what Mauricio tells meme who is dead without saying Aureliano segundi Fernanda delivers meme to the same convent boarding school where he received his own education Fernanda writes to José Arcadio meme's brother and tells him that he died of black vomit meme Good morning she gives birth to a son the nuns call him Aureliano meme no longer speaks Fernando refuses to let Aureliano leave the house and keeps him hidden a

33:14 year later civil unrest and protests reach Macondo in the form of demonstrations against the rail company the leaders of the movement including José Arcadio segund are imprisoned Workers try to trap Mr. Brown from the banana company into signing a list of their demands, but the banana company pretends that he is not affiliated with them. The factory workers organize a major strike and military regiments arrive in Macondo. Soldiers begin work, which was stopped by the strikers, but the workers sabotaged the strike and many of the foreign workers from the banana company left. The authorities summon the workers to the center of Macondo to be approached by a provincial leader who wants to mediate the

34:00 conflict. José Arcadio Segund waits in the town square of Macondo. Management realizes that machine guns and artillery are being installed in the town. The workers wait for hours until an army lieutenant reads aloud the military decree authorizing the army to shoot to kill. A captain tells the crowd that they must leave the square in 5 minutes. After 5 minutes, the army opens fire and massacres them all. José Arcadio Segund tries to escape with a child, but they are caught and killed. José Arcadio Segund wakes up on the ground. from a freight train heading for the coast surrounded by the corpses of the workers he jumps off the train and walks

34:46 back to macondo when he returns there is no evidence of the massacre Aureliano segund reads a statement stating that the workers abandoned the station and returned to their homes and reduced their demands to two to which the rail company agreed a torrential downpour breaks out in macondo and the rail company announces a festival once the rain stops the military continues to search for strikers in macondo and people disappear at night official sources deny any violence jose arcadio segund is the only survivor of the massacre the military arrives at the buendía house looking for him but does not recognize him and he escapes certain death jose arcadio II remains locked in the

35:33 room for more than 6 months reading the writings of melquíades chapter 16 the rains continue in macondo for almost 5 years aurelian II spends time at fernanda's house and takes care of the children amaranta Ursula and little Aureliano, son of Meme, who makes up stories. Fernanda struggles with uterine pain and consults doctors by mail who seem potentially fraudulent. Aureliano Segund visits Petra's house to see how the animals are doing and discovers that almost all of them are dead. When he returns to the house. Good morning, Fernanda tells him that they are almost out of food and has an outburst of grievances that lasts all day. He asks her to stop, but she doesn't. She

36:19 destroys domestic beings. She leaves the house and returns with some poor quality food. The children play with the old woman Ursula as if she were a large human doll. They dress her up and paint her face. Aureliano Segund hires an excavation team to try to finally find the gold buried in the yard. It digs under the house and breaks the foundations. When it stops raining, Macondo is half abandoned and rotting in Melquiades' workshop. Petra and Aureliano Segund continue with their raffle business, which they call raffles. Divine

37:05 Providence acquires more animals to raffle off they give most of their money to Fernanda and they themselves remain in poverty however they rediscover the passion they feel for each other and fall madly in love once again F Fernanda enrolls Amaranta Ursula in school but keeps the youngest Aureliano hidden Ursula dies and few people attend the funeral because it is so hot even the birds die the old priest blames the plague of dead birds on a creature which he calls the anti-semitic term wandering Jew the creature is part human with wings that were apparently cut off the people of Macondo kill it Rebeca dies in bed Fernanda

37:51 discovers she has a uterine prolapse and José Arcadio mails her pessaries which are intravaginal medical devices designed to help support her uterus and relieve her suffering this is sent to her from Rome Aureliano when he finds them believes they are for witchcraft and tries unsuccessfully to solve Fernanda's medical problem by burying a chicken alive José Arcadio II befriends Little Aureliano and teaches him to read and write as well as telling them about the banana company massacre Aureliano Segund has difficulty breathing and hints that he is going to die He gathers all the money he can from the raffles and sends Amaranta Ursula to Brussels to continue her

38:37 education They die at the same time Aureliano II and Jose Arcadio II Aureliano's friends Iundi placed a wreath on his coffin that says enough cows that life is short Chapter 18 After Aureliano Segi's death Petra sends Fernanda a basket of food every week until Fernanda also passes away Young Aureliano spends a lot of time at Melquiades's old workshop where Santa Sofia de Piedad brings him food and clothing The ghost of Melquiades visits him and tells him to visit a specific bookstore in town to buy books that will help him decipher Melquiades' writings Santa Sofia de Piedad tries to run the

39:22 house alone but is a frustrated old woman packs her clothes and tells Aureliano that he will spend the rest of his life at a cousin's house Fernanda has no idea how to do housework so Aureliano does what he can Aureliano tries to work up the courage to ask Fernanda for permission to go to the bookstore she refuses and starts carrying the house keys with him at all times One day Aureliano sees that she hasn't eaten the food he left for her From the day before he finds her dead in bed wearing the queen outfit she wore on her first visit to Macondo after Fernanda's death Aureliano works up the courage to finally visit the bookstore Jose Arcadio arrives home from

40:08 his religious studies four months later and returns permanently he calls Aureliano a bastard and ignores him Jose Arcadio sells what's left of the house and invites the children over to play and have fun the children tease Aureliano but they find the three sacks of gold hidden under where Ursula's bed used to be with the money Jose Arcadio buys fancy food and alcohol he also throws all night nudist parties with the teenagers of the city after which he feels guilty and whips himself Aureliano Amador the last of the sons of Colonel Aureliano Buendía knocks on the door and tries to enter Two police officers who are chasing him murder him in the street The

40:54 teenagers who accompanied José Arcadio return to the house they drown him in the bathroom and steal the sacks of gold Young Aureliano does not realize that anything has happened until he finds the body chapter 19 Amaranta Ursula returns to the Buendía home with her Belgian husband Gastón whom she leads with a silk rope she thoroughly cleans the house and companions canaries in an attempt to repopulate the birds of Macondo Gastón collects insects eggs and butterflies as of natural history he rides his bicycle around the city and spends time with Aureliano Gastón tries to create an airmail service to Macondo but the plane he orders never arrives Aureliano explores Macondo and lives by

41:41 selling antiques from the house he ends up having sex with Amaranta Ursula who is his aunt and visits most nights a sex worker called necromancers starts arguing about cockroaches with other entities at the bookstore and begins regularly visiting a brothel in the red light district of Macondo Gastón believes that their stay in Macondo is temporary and suggests a quick trip to Belgium to understand the airmail business Amaranta Ursula refuses to leave Macondo even though it means the end of the marriage Aureliano goes with his bookstore friends to a zoo brothel where the elderly owner Pilar believes she is Colonel Aureliano Buendía she is Aureliano's great-great-grandmother

42:27 he cries to her for her obsession with his aunt Amaranta Ursula and she tells him that Amaranta is waiting for him Aureliano arrives at her house and begins to rape Amaranta Ursula while her husband is in the next room this situation is presented as almost consensual during the course of the encounter and the two maintain an ongoing sexual relationship which is the central theme of the next chapter chapter 20 Pilar dies and is buried under the floor of her brothel the bookstore closes and its owner returns to Catalonia sends Aureliano and his friends letters and photographs of his travels Aureliano's friends leave Macondo the old banana company has become a field of grass and the

43:12 Catholic Church is in ruins the sexual relationship of Aureliano and Amaranta Ursula continues and her husband returns to Brussels for good. Aureliano and Amaranta Ursula have passionate sex all day long. Amaranta becomes pregnant. They both live in only a few rooms of the house and let the rest deteriorate. Amaranta Ursula gives birth with the assistance of the brothel owner. The infant has a pig's tail, fulfilling the great fear of the now deceased Ursula and Ursula, as it symbolizes incest. After birth, Amaranta Ursula dies from loss of blood. In her grief, Aureliano takes the child with him while he goes out on the town. He screams drunk in

43:58 the town square where a black mantle finds him unconscious and cleans him up. When Aureliano wakes up, he cannot find his little son. He finally finds the baby's corpse in the courtyard of the house. Good day, devoured by ants. Upon seeing the body, he realizes that Melquíades' writings predicted everything related to the events within the family. Good morning Aureliano decodes the scrolls when it starts to get very windy the wind intensifies while Lee tears down doors and tears out the foundations of the house he realizes that Melquiades predicted that the city of mirrors or mirages would be erased by the wind and banished from the memory of men just as the fierce wind does precisely that

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