The Metamorphosis of Marquezian Nights in One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Metamorphosis of Marquezian Nights in One Hundred Years of Solitude

Summary/Abstract: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, one of the most important writers of the twentieth century, has focused his unusual way of exploration into the inner side of literature on simultaneous realities. As a result of this new and catchy way of writing about life and death, Marquez has become a notorious name in literature. One Hundred Years of Solitude, surely one of the most entertaining books ever written, does not surrender all its meaning in the first reading; rather, it demands a second reading which is in effect the real one. After having done this, you, as a reader, have the tremendous feeling that life has changed, that death is getting closer, that night is falling apart. This paper aims to identify the less known part of this novel. I focused on the Metamorphosis of Marquezian Nights. There are six important nights in this novel and each of them tries to emphasize those steps from life to death (the Night of Beginning-Utopia and Magic Places, the Night of Dream and Memory, the Magic Night-Remedios’ Death, the Night of Insufficient Physiologies, the Night of Splitting Up the Universal Spirit and the Night of Mirrors).

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