Borges 'One Hundred Years Of Solitude-The Last Three Pages'

In context of the ending of the novel Kennedy states that reading is inescapable. As though it can be resisted, it cannot be rebelled against. The reader and the last survivor of Buendia clan finish reading the text and the manuscript at the same time. The ending of the book, also marks the end of Buendia family and Macondo. The well known existential philosopher, Albert Camus states that if resistance mute perhaps continues thereupon the unitary regime will collapse in its own contradictions. However, Marquez portrays realistically that it is the rebels who collapse in their contradictions, while keeping silent apropos the fate of the repressive regime.

Another aspect of rebellion is that of a failure in the form of Colonel Buendia. As when the resistance stops, the banana plaque arrives which leads to massacre. And thereafter he laments his decision of abandoning the revolution. Hence, his resistance comes through making and unmaking of the gold fishes. Suzanne Jill

He further quotes from Borges` essay “On the Cult of Books”, that “according to Mallarme`, the world exists to culminate in a book; according to Bloy, we are versicles or words…of a magic book…it is the only thing in the world or rather it is the world” (487). Thereby, the book Aureliano reads is emblematical of the same life in which he lives and the fate of being subjected to solitude acts as an accepted reality for the creatures lost in the world of mirages. While Wendy B. Faris notes that the opening reference to Ice and the final talking mirror of the parchments point towards permanent frozen future of Macondo and its inhabitants. This is where all actions are possible though inevitably they move towards