The novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude” was a work written by Gabriel García Márquez over eighteen months between 1965 and 1966 in Mexico City and first published in 1967 in Buenos Aires. The ingenuity to write this work was born in 1952 during the trip that Gabriel García Márquez made to his hometown, Aracataca. There is no doubt that the fictional location of Macondo, the environment in which the work takes place, reflects many customs and anecdotes experienced by Gabriel García Márquez during his childhood in the aforementioned city, thus showing a historical and social context that will be analyzed. below. The historical context of the work can be located in Colombia, in the late 19th century and mid-20th century. As the novel says, there have been liberal and conservative parties in the history of Colombia, notably recognized for the multiple civil wars they faced. It is clear that Gabriel García Márquez reflects two historical figures of Colombia: Rafael Uribe Uribe, leader of the liberal party and Rafael Núñez, Colombian president, leader of the conservative party. Many battles described in the work refer to the bloody battles of the Colombian Civil War, such as the Thousand Days War. The work also describes how countless conflicts would be led mainly by a counterpart figure of Rafael Uribe Uribe: Colonel Aureliano Buendía Regarding the social contexts, there are two pieces of information related in a similar way with the Colombian. historical context. The first information concerns the arrival of the railway in Colombia. In 1882 the Santa Marta Railway was founded, which served mainly...... middle of paper ...... "lonely years" could have been the development of the First and Second World Wars. Since Gabriel García Márquez was a European journalist, his main task could have been to report on the daily life of a bloody war like World War II. This, hypothetically speaking, could have generated characters in a new story directly or indirectly describing the development of this conflict. In conclusion, we must consider that a mentality influenced by a European region would have fertilized a new literary style, a new novelistic. plot, a new lexicon with new original expressions from Europe and very probably a different title for the work. But perhaps the most avid reader's uneasiness was that they had never experienced a literary style as unique as the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez..