In his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez skillfully employs the wide range of systematically diverse resources and stylistic nuances in Spanish to express temporal references. This paper focuses on a complex narrative technique that significantly shapes the story's form, particularly in the first part of the novel, and contributes considerably to the temporal and plot structure, and thus to the narrative idiosyncrasy of García Márquez's text: a very specific type of epic foreshadowing, which, incidentally, already appears in the famous opening sentence. I will comment on the characteristic and highly recurring linguistic devices which García Márquez uses to construct instances of foreshadowing that recur like leitmotifs in the early chapters. Among the particularly noteworthy elements are the demonstratives, especially the distance demonstrative aquel, and the verbal periphrasis haber de, which in Latin American Spanish and in Márquez's foreshadowing has no conjectural but only a temporal meaning.
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