Abstract
his article explores the relationship of Gabriel García Márquez's novel "Cien años de soledad" to early modern material culture. In particular, it argues that we may reread central passages in the novel as a ludic reintegration of the space of the "cámara de maravillas" or "Wunderkammer": sixteenth- and seventeenth-century repositories of objects that were conceived of as marvels or wonders. While this transhistorical relationship appears at first to link García Márquez's novel to modern and contemporary reinventions of the "Wunderkammer" in Europe and North America, the present article underscores the specificity of "Cien años de soledad's" approach to the early modern culture of the marvelous in light of the novel's retracing of the affective cartographies of empire.