TRANSLATING ‘SOLITARINESS’ IN “ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE”: VOICING THE “BUENDIAS” ACROSS BORDERS

One of the most cherished figures of 20th-century Spanish literature, García Márquez was the definitive force of the age's literary landscape, voicing Latin America's years-old struggle for identity and existence during turbulent times.An epoch-making work, Márquez's Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude), gives a fictionalized account of the author's childhood memories in Colombia, woven around Macondo's complex socio-political history and realities of Latin America, including incidents of devastating banana massacre, intriguing plots of civil war, colonial encounter, and intrusion of modernity, edging the already cornered tribes, Buendías to the margins, raising concerns for the survival of the race, lost in solitude. Gregory Rabassa's English version of the narrative is a translation for transformation, envisioning Marquez's dream of bridging cultures across continents, weaving acontemporary world of peace.Exploring the depths of Buendia's identity, hidden behind the contours of Latin American civilization, this work seeks to address the divide between the tribe's struggle for existence and indigenous history, reinterpreting it in the contemporary context for a broader worldview.Efforts have been made to search our tribes, revisit our past, rooted so deeply in the soil of the Americas, illuminating new perspectives on tribal justice and welfare.Translating 'Solitariness' in "One Hundred Years of Solitude": Voicing The "Buendias"Across Borders