One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Artwork by Teresa Camellini

01 _Rupture of the Reality

"He spent six hours examining things, trying to find any difference from how they had looked the day before, hoping to discover some change in them that would reveal the passage of time. He spent the whole night with his eyes open in bed, calling Prudencio Aquilar, Melquiades, all the dead, to share his despair. [...] Then he grabbed the bar of a door and with the savage violence of his extraordinary strength he tore the alchemist's instruments into pieces until they were reduced to dust. [...] It took ten men to throw him to the ground, fourteen to immobilize him, twenty to drag him to the chestnut tree on the patio, where they left him tied up, shouting in a strange language with green foam at his mouth."

02_Rupture of the Bond

"As soon as Jose Arcadia closed the door of the room, a gunshot rang out in the house. A trickle of blood ran out into the street, continued in a straight line on uneven sidewalks, went down stairways and up parapets[...] deviated at a right angle in front of the Buendia house, passed under the closed door, crossed the visiting room along the walls so as not to stain the carpets, [...] and slipped into the barn and emerged into the kitchen where Ursula was preparing to break thirty-six eggs for the bread. "Holy Mother!" Ursula shouted."

03_Rupture of the Destiny

"Carmelita Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange blossom water and was spreading rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out. Aurelia no Jose was destined to experience with her the happiness that Amaranta had denied him, to have seven children and to die of old age in her arms, but the bullet that entered his back and tore his chest was led by a wrong interpretation of the cards."