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On this day in 1967, Gabriel García Márquez published "One Hundred Years of Solitude" -- one of the towering novels of the 20th century which led critics like William Kennedy to call it "the first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race." It is at once a family saga, a political allegory, a mythic history of Latin America, and a meditation on memory, loneliness, and the way entire civilizations drift into ruin while convincing th...