Function of Multi-generation in One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Namesake | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Jhumpa Lahiri
Family sagas are key ways for communities to stake a claim of their history and culture. Multi-generational stories teach us that our lives are not simply our own but are also woven into the fabric of space, time, and family. In the following two multi-generational novels, the patriarchs, and the children they all face new challenges but come to realize that these challenges have, in varied forms, echoed through the decades. Here, I’m going to compare the two celebrated multi-generational novels - One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. Since, both the novels are based on the theme of multi-generation, a comparable study can be made. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez & Jhumpa Lahiri) One Hundred Years of Solitude is considered Columbian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez's magnum opus and is recognized as one of the most significant works in the Spanish literary canon. Renowned Chilean poet and Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda called it: "...