ABSTRACT
The renowned Columbian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez has written two works in which he has embedded evidence of a history that has been practically forgotten: that of the Jews who were expelled from Spain. Garcia Marquez’s other testimony to the history of the Jews in America is much more literary, and hence more fictional. It is woven into his master novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude. The crisis of modern experience becomes explicit in the novel for the first time when Jose Arcadio Buendia has a strange experience in the course of one of his scientific experiments; an experience that will transport him to a state similar to madness. The appearance of the Wandering Jew in Macondo could have much more to do with a conception of history in crisis than with the mere literary appropriation of a myth.
