Magical Realism is not really a genre per se.

It's a sort of way of life.

It's a belief that, in my humble opinion, it comes from the merging of different cultures and their beliefs and their spirituality.

From Futuro Media and PRX, it's Latino USA. I'm Maria Inojosa. Today, Argentine director,

Alex Garcia-Lopez on the TV adaptation of 100 Years of Solitude.

The novel 100 Years of Solitude, better known as 100 Years of Soledad, is regarded as one of the most important works

of the Spanish language.

The story follows first cousins, Jose Arcadio Bendiya and Ursula Igueran,

who defied their parents' wishes to marry,

and so they set off on a journey to find a new home. The cousins, along with other adventure seekers,

eventually established the utopian town of Macondo on a lush riverside. Over many generations, the Wendia family shapes the destiny of this

mystical town as they endure cycles of madness, forbidden loves, a senseless war, and a haunting curse

that dooms them to a century of solitude.

Much years after the peloton of fusilament.

The colonel Aurelian no endia.

Had

to record that

time

remota

in that

his father

he was

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