One Hundred Years of Solitude is the subjective “story” of the founding family of the town of Macondo. During its early years, the town is isolated from the outside world, except for a few itinerant gypsies who frequent it, selling supposedly extraordinary new technologies like ice, telescopes and "scientific advances" and planting ideas of alchemy in the head of the patriarch. of the Buendía family, José Arcadio Buendía. A rather impulsive and curious man, he is also deeply solitary, distancing himself from other men in his obsessive research into the science of alchemy, taking the last inheritance from his wife, Ursula, in order to create gold to from other more common methods. . After José Arcadio Buendía's attempts at alchemy prove unsuccessful, he redirects his aspirations toward a return to civilization. He leads the town's founding men on a quest to retrace their previous path to Macondo, but ultimately declares that the town is surrounded by water on all sides and it is impossible to regain contact with the rest of the world. These key character traits, represented by the patriarch, are inherited by several of his descendants throughout the novel, including his eldest, José Arcadio, inheriting his immeasurable physical strength and impulsiveness. As a teenager, José Arcadio is seduced by the local fortune teller, Pilar Ternera, and subsequently gets her pregnant. However, José Arcadio did not have the same core family values ​​as his father, and he even went so far as to run away with the gypsies before his son was born. After his disappearance, Ursula, devastated, went looking for her son. She never found it, but she discovered the route to civilization, birthing a new era for...... middle of paper...... prophecies signal that time is collapsing on itself, combining past, present and future into an ambiguous era in which nothing changes, but simply rotates. In a sense, this happened throughout the book: spirits from the past materialized and disappeared, Pilar Ternera could read the future as well as the past, and Buendía's actions seemingly merge the past, the present and the future in one. . The final moments of Aureliano II represent a version of what has been happening all along on a miniature scale. Time, in One Hundred Years of Solitude, is not a distinct linear movement of individual events, but rather an unlimited quantity of movements occurring simultaneously, in which no event can be considered unique because it refers to the both past tense and past tense. the future. This is already happening, at the same time, elsewhere.