G. G. MÁRQUEZ. The novel ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE

I came to the conclusion that this novel is an allegory of humanity's present and future state. At any rate, it clearly is not about the past. It is a huge parable of the fundamental features of the political era, the cultural and spiritual stage that came after the Middle Ages and is called the modern age. The tragedy of humankind cut off from religion and morals. A message about humanity, fallen under the rule of Satan and the Dajjal, collapsing into the abyss. An expression of the calamity of unbelief, of the meaninglessness of a life without faith. An exposure of the fact that bare emotions and reason never lead to the light. The images Márquez paints seem immoral, but his aim is not to instill immorality, but rather to pull people out of it. They are the outlines of the uncertainty and indecision in human feeling and thought. He is a skilled artist of literature. He is a master of words. He speaks in the language of symbols. That is his secret too. The archetype of the work is the Bible and medieval Christian doctrine. Márquez is truly a great writer; I know very little about his biography and, for some reason, I am not very interested in it either; I have no doubt that the text he wrote gives the most important and accurate information about him; the main thing, the aim, is not what Márquez says, but understanding his Thought and Word. What did he want to say? What did he point to? After all, what made Márquez Márquez is his thought and his words. Deprive him of these two, and he too is just one of millions of ordinary people. To understand him, a Muslim reader must possess certain kinds of knowledge. If he wishes, let him read it. If it is hard for him, let him not read it. I am sure that a Muslim too will find in the novel conclusions that support his faith. Only, knowledge is needed so as not to get lost once inside the work.