"According to many testimonies, like García Márquez's exact contemporary the Mexican Carlos Fuentes or the Colombian critic many years younger than both, Michael Palencia Roth, 'Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude)' is the one novel where Latin Americans recognize themselves instantly: their own social, cultural reality, their families, and the history of their countries. It is also the mirror in which a generation of Europeans and North Americans, by the millions, since its publication, have discovered the magical reality of an exotic continent, and a taste for its hallucinatory literature. Are they reading the same novel?"
This book makes references to Gabriel García Márquez on pages 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 62, 63, 64, 65, 69, 74, 76, 85, 238, 270-275, 279-280, 305, 308, 310, 315.
The the following novels are mentioned:
"El amor en tiempos del cólera" ("Love in the Time of Cholera) 88.
"Cien años de soledad" ("One Hundred Years of Solitude") 2, 5, 15, 59, 61, 62, 63, 74, 85, 86, 94, 239, 258-267, 291, 302, 306, 308, 310.
"Crónica de una muerta anunciada" ("Chronicle of a Death Foretold") 88, 266.
"El coronel no tiene quien le escribe" ("No One Writes to the Colonel)62.
"Los funerales de la Mamá Grande" ("Big Mama's Funeral") 74.
"La hojarasca" 265.
"La mala hora" ("In Evil Hour") 62, 74.
"El Otoño del patriarca" ("The Autumn of the Patriarch") 10, 62, 265.