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"...Suddenly the reader comes into the realization that the narrator is not outside the story but within" (Williams, 1984).

"The infinite regression is as follows: the reader is reading a story in which Aureliano Babilonia is reading that he is reading the story that the reader is reading, in which Aureliano Babilonia is reading that he is reading, and so on" (Trauvitch, 2015).

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The true destiny of Aureliano Babilonia is not to be forever trapped in Melquiades's magic room (as he had been virtually enclosed from the very beginning in the Magus's parchments) but to be trapped in the pages of this other Book. His destiny is the circular immortality of all creatures of fiction (Monegal, 1973).

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"...and he began to decipher the instant that he was living, deciphering it as he lived it, prophesying himself in the act of deciphering the last page of the parchments, as if he were looking into a speaking mirror." (p.201)

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"He was so absorbed that he did not feel the second surge of wind either as its cyclonic strength tore the doors and windows off their hinges, pulled off the roof of the east wing, and uprooted the foundations." (p.200-201)

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"...The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants." (p.200)

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"... he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men..." (p.201)

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García Márquez, G. (1991). One Hundred Years of Solitude. Trans. Gregory Rabassa. New York: Avon.

Monegal, E. R. (1973). " One Hundred Years of Solitude": The Last Three Pages. Books Abroad, 47(3), 485-489.

Trauvitch, Rhona. (2015). “Mise en Abyme and Quantum Mechanics: The Reader as Observer.” Interface between Literature and Science: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Latin American Texts, edited by Victoria Carpenter, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.115-140.

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"Only then did he discover that Amaranta Úrsula was not his sister but his aunt, and that Sir Francis Drake had attacked Riohacha only so that they could seek each other through the most intricate labyrinths of blood until they would engender the mythological animal that was to bring the line to an end" (p.201)

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"After cutting the umbilical cord, the midwife began to use a cloth to take off the blue grease that covered his body as Aureliano held up a lamp. Only when they turned him on his stomach did they see that he had something more than other men, and they leaned over to examine him. It was the tail of a pig." (p.199)