Does great literature translate into great television?
Netflix hopes so, with its adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude”
IT WOULD BE hard, Gabriel García Márquez thought, to do justice to the surreal, sprawling tale on screen. By his reckoning, “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, his celebrated novel of 1967, would need a runtime of 100 hours; it would also have to be filmed in Colombia, entirely in Spanish.
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