Gabriel García Márquez had concerns as far back as 1974 about his award-winning novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, being adapted for film.

In this LitHub article, Ariel Dorman remembers a conversation in early April 1974 when Márquez expressed his concerns that such an adaptation would “be a travesty”.

“What is most entrancing in the book cannot be translated into another medium” Dorman reports him saying.

Despite the glowing reviews of the television series, One Hundred Years of Solitude, now streaming on Netflix, Dorman maintains that there is “something essential missing”, that being the “unique outlook” conveyed by the original novel.