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GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ<br />

Cien años de soledad<br />

/... Entonces empezó el viento, tibio, incipiente, lleno de voces<br />

del pasado, de murmullos de geranios antiguos, de suspiros de<br />

desengaños anteriores a las nostalgias más tenaces. No lo advirtió<br />

porque en aquel momento estaba descubriendo los primeros<br />

indicios de su ser, en un abuelo concupiscente que se dejaba<br />

arrastrar por la frivolidad a través de un páramo alucinado, en<br />

busca de una mujer hermosa a quien no haría feliz. Aureliano lo<br />

reconoció, persiguió los caminos ocultos de su descendencia, y<br />

encontró el instante de su propia concepción entre los alacranes<br />

y las mariposas amarillas de un baño crepuscular, donde un<br />

menestral saciaba su lujuria con una mujer que se le entregaba<br />

por rebeldía. Estaba tan absorto, que no sintió tampoco la segunda<br />

arremetida del viento, cuya potencia ciclónica arrancó de los<br />

quicios las puertas y las ventanas, descuajó el techo de la galería<br />

oriental y desarraigó los cimientos. Sólo entonces descubrió que<br />

Amaranta Úrsula no era su hermana, sino su tía, y que Francis<br />

Drake había asaltado a Riohacha solamente para que ellos<br />

pudieran buscarse por los laberintos más intrincados de la sangre,<br />

hasta engendrar el animal mitológico que había de poner término<br />

a la estirpe. Macondo era ya un pavoroso remolino de polvo y<br />

escombros centrifugado por la cólera del huracán bíblico, cuando<br />

Aureliano saltó once páginas para no perder el tiempo en hechos<br />

demasiado conocidos, y empezó a descifrar el instante que estaba<br />

viviendo, descifrándolo a medida que lo vivía, profetizándose a sí<br />

mismo en el acto de descifrar la última página de los pergaminos,<br />

como si se estuviera viendo en un espejo hablado.../<br />

One hundred years of solitude<br />

/... Then the wind began, warm, incipient, full of voices from the<br />

past, the murmurs of ancient geraniums, sighs of disenchantment<br />

that preceded the most tenacious nostalgia. He did not notice it<br />

because at that moment he was discovering the first indications<br />

of his own being in a lascivious grandfather who let himself be<br />

frivolously dragged along across a hallucinated plateau in search<br />

of a beautiful woman who would not make him happy. Aureliano<br />

recognized him, he pursued the hidden paths of his descent, and<br />

he found the instant of his own conception among the scorpions<br />

and the yellow butterflies in a sunset bathroom where a mechanic<br />

satisfied his lust on a woman who was giving herself out of<br />

rebellion. He was so absorbed that he did not feel the second<br />

surge of wind either as its cyclonic strength tore the doors and<br />

windows off their hinges, pulled off the roof off the east wing, and<br />

uprooted the foundations. Only then did he discover that Amaranta<br />

Úrsula was not his sister but his aunt, and that Sir Francis Drake<br />

had attacked Riohacha only so that they could seek each other<br />

through the most intricate labyrinths of blood until they would<br />

engender the mythological animal that was to bring the line to an<br />

end. Macondo was already a fearful whirlwind of dust and rubble<br />

being spun about by the wrath of the biblical hurricane when<br />

Aureliano skipped eleven pages so as not to lose time with facts he<br />

knew only too well, and he began to decipher the instant that he<br />

was living, deciphering it as he lived it, prophesying himself in the<br />

act of deciphering the last page of the parchments, as if he were<br />

looking into a speaking mirror.../

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