The magical
realist style and thematic
substance of One Hundred Years of Solitude established it as
an important representative novel of the literary Latin American Boom of
the 1960s and 1970s, which was stylistically influenced by Modernism (European and North American) and the Cuban Vanguardia (Avant-Garde)
literary movement.
Since
it was first published in May 1967 in Buenos Aires by Editorial Sudamericana, One Hundred
Years of Solitude has been translated into 46 languages and sold more
than 50 million copies.