A+E Networks. In early April 1968, shock waves reverberated around the world with the news that U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
Although One Hundred Years of Solitude has come to be considered one of, if not the, most influential Latin American texts of all time, the novel and Gabriel GarcÃ­a MÃ¡rquez have both received occasional criticisms.
The Secret History of One Hundred Years of Solitude. A half-century ago, Gabriel GarcÃ­a MÃ¡rquez, after yet another visit to the pawnshop, sent his now signature novel to his publisher.