One Hundred Years of Solitude

After 57 years, a screen adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez's Latin American epic Cien Años de Soledad — One Hundred Years of Solitude — finally debuted on Netflix this week. But will the 16-part series bring a new generation to the historic magical realist novel?

Gabriel García Márquez, who died Thursday at age 87, provided one of the eerier moments of my journalism career.In 1996, a colleague and I had been…