Morandé and Macondo: Developmentalism, Modernity and Latinoamerican culture through one hundred year of solitude

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Abstract

This work aims to provide a reading and interpretation key to Pedro Morandé's thesis about the main problem of the modernizing paradigm within Latin American sociology, as studied in his main work "Cultura y Modernización en América Latina", through an interpretative analysis of Gabriel García Márquez's novel "Cien años de soledad" (One hundred years of solitude). The objective is to examine how Macondo of the Buendía lineage contains the historical-cultural element that, according to Morandé's thesis, needs to be revisited within the social sciences for a proper overcoming of the crisis in which the modernizing paradigm finds itself. This examination involves studying the narrative elements that represent and unveil the socio-cultural substrate present in García Márquez's novel, in order to relate them to Morandé's proposal.

Keywords:

Modernization, Culture, Macondo, Latin America, Developmentalism