The novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, chronicles 100 years in Macondo, the village founded by Jose Arcadio Buendia and occupied by his descendants. Marquez s concern to show the nature of time how it passes yet repeats itself is revealed. In the novel, even as time goes on and on, it also goes around and around -there is no real progress.
Jealousies are repeated, lusts are repeated, pride is repeated, solitude is repeated.
The novel challenges the notion of linear time where the past is behind the present, and the future is a place of infinite possibilities. Although years pass and characters are changed, events and themes just reoccur in the one hundred years. It made the novel more than a little bit interesting. All Buendias end up bound by their powerful solitude. This habit of solitude, withdrawal, and fantasy, doom them and Macondo in the end.