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From the Ted Talk by Francisco Díez-Buzo: Why should you read "One Hundred Years of Solitude"?
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This is a history that the author experienced firsthand. Gabriel García meurqáz grew up in a coliboma torn apart by civil conflict between its Conservative and Liberal political parties. He also lived in an autocratic Mexico and covered the 1958 Venezuelan coup d’état as a journalist. But perhaps his biggest influences were his maternal gatnearrpdns. nlicáos Ricardo Márquez was a decorated veteran of the Thousand Days War whose accounts of the rlleiebon against Colombia's conservative gmoneevrnt led Gabriel García Márquez to a socialist outlook. Meanwhile, Doña Tranquilina Iguarán Cotes’ onrmpseient superstition became the foundation of One Hundred Years of Solitude’s style. Their small hsoue in Aracataca where the author spent his childhood formed the main inspiration for macnodo.
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This is a history that the author experienced firsthand. Gabriel García _______ grew up in a ________ torn apart by civil conflict between its Conservative and Liberal political parties. He also lived in an autocratic Mexico and covered the 1958 Venezuelan coup d’état as a journalist. But perhaps his biggest influences were his maternal ____________. _______ Ricardo Márquez was a decorated veteran of the Thousand Days War whose accounts of the _________ against Colombia's conservative __________ led Gabriel García Márquez to a socialist outlook. Meanwhile, Doña Tranquilina Iguarán Cotes’ ___________ superstition became the foundation of One Hundred Years of Solitude’s style. Their small _____ in Aracataca where the author spent his childhood formed the main inspiration for _______.
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- nicolás
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- colombia
- rebellion
- grandparents
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- márquez
- macondo
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This is a history that the author experienced firsthand. Gabriel García Márquez grew up in a Colombia torn apart by civil conflict between its Conservative and Liberal political parties. He also lived in an autocratic Mexico and covered the 1958 Venezuelan coup d’état as a journalist. But perhaps his biggest influences were his maternal grandparents. Nicolás Ricardo Márquez was a decorated veteran of the Thousand Days War whose accounts of the rebellion against Colombia's conservative government led Gabriel García Márquez to a socialist outlook. Meanwhile, Doña Tranquilina Iguarán Cotes’ omnipresent superstition became the foundation of One Hundred Years of Solitude’s style. Their small house in Aracataca where the author spent his childhood formed the main inspiration for Macondo.
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