[AUDIO_EN_BLANCO] The stories that are contained in the collection of the funerals of the big mother must weigh as belonging to a process of symbolic and literary formation that will only develop fully in 100 years of solitude. Particularly through the figure of Macondo. It is for this reason that all these stories are related in an intertextual way, so that characters that are secondary in some of them are central in others and narratives that have remained open in some stories are also central in others. Additionally, some themes seem to articulate several of the relationships. For example, the case of the relationship with power, the articulation of power, comes to mind. Which is central in the story that gives title to the collection the funerals of the big mom in particular. Above all, the way in which local and regional powers confront national, state powers or even symbols of power such as the papacy. And in this sense, carnival is central in this way and how power is articulated. Carnival in particular understood in its Renaissance meaning, that is, as a kind of suspended world in which values can be inverted and in which power formulas can be inverted. The big breast is that other who confronts, for example, the papacy and who can invert the western and cultural values implicit in the idea of the papacy. In the funerals of the big breast, the funerals end up being what they traditionally are, that is, they end up being a celebration of life. Almost in the most third sense of the term, what we have in these funerals is a carnival, that is to say a space not only for the suspension of traditional values but also a space in which an almost exaggerated celebratory party of life and its pleasures. In this description of the carnivals we have things such as, for example, sales of masato, bun, black pudding, pork rinds, empanadas, sausages, caribañolas, yuca bread, almojadas, buñuelos, arepuelas, puff pastry, longanizas, tripe, cocadas guarapo, among all kinds of trifles, trinkets, trinkets and gizmos, and cockfighting and lottery games. There is an almost baroque need to repeat, to reiterate almost to the point of exaggeration the most basic pleasures of life, food, drink, sex, play, and so on.