Eternal return from "summary" of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
In Macondo, time did not exist. It was as if the town was stuck in a perpetual cycle of events, where the past, present, and future coexisted. The Buendía family, with their repeated mistakes and actions, seemed to be trapped in this eternal return, doomed to relive their lives over and over again. The concept of eternal return was not just a philosophical idea for the inhabitants of Macondo, but a tangible reality. The repetition of names, characteristics, and events throughout the generations of the Buendía family emphasized this cyclical nature of life in the town. The novel portrays the struggles of the Buendía family as they try to break free from this eternal return, only to find themselves falling back into the same patterns as their ancestor...
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