Left-Wing Colombian journalist Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 100 Years of Solitude was the foundation of Magic Realism. This new genre shifted the focus of literature away from the old colonial centres of London, Paris and New York. The psychedelic style was particularly apt for 1967, mixing a wealth of myth and superstition with experimental narrative quirks. In the sprawling, fantastical tale of the Buendia family, Marquez portrays in microcosm the incestuous feuds and colourful extremities of the history of his continent.