...exterminated one after the other on a single night before the oldest one had reached the age of thirtyfive. He survived fourteen attempts on his life, seventy-three...strychnine in his coffee that was enough to kill a horse. He refused the Order of Merit, which the President of the Republic awarded him. He rose to be Commander...

...exterminated one after the other on a single night before the oldest one had reached the age of thirty-five. He survived fourteen attempts on his life, seventy-three ambushes, and a firing squad." The spinster Amaranta Buendia has a clear and unperturbed premonition of her own death: She saw it...

...exterminated one after the other on a single night before the oldest one had reached the age of thirty-five. He survived fourteen attempts on his life, seventy-three...He lived through a dose of strychnine in his coffee . . .' Nothing abstract here. No 'objective' reason for wars. Everything springs from a concrete, flesh-and-blood,...