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Families in Ulysses and One Hundred Years of Solitude are often breeding grounds for distortion and curses, not of the stability and progress expected of most kin relations. Genealogies are either perverted or unsuccessful: The Buendía line, with its unrelenting spawning of repetitive names and its replicating, incestuous procreative urges…

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