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.
Month by month the typescript grew, presaging the weight that the great novel and the âsolitude of fame,â as he would later put it, would inflict on him. Gabriel GarcÃ­a MÃ¡rquez began writing Cien AÃ±os de SoledadâOne Hundred Years of Solitudeâa half-century ago, finishing in late 1966.