ABSTRACT

Language serves as a means of realism and construction of identity in the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and one of the finest examples of how language carries a sort of tradition is the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. This chapter discusses several aspects of language portrayed in the novel like: language as a constructor of plot, language as a carrier of sort of tradition, the phenomenon of language and reality working together. It explains how language is a source of a problematic communication and confusion, the relationship between language and memory, and how language holds the power to bewitch. Jonathan Ryan talks about ideas relating to the nature of language, literacy and communication as presented in novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, and expounds on how these ideas contribute to the novel’s more central theme of personal isolation. Although, Magic Realism is the main central theme of the novel that has been the central interest of the researchers.