Solitude can exist in many ways and can be present in any form in the human being. Every person is ultimately alone deep within themselves, which is why communication and connections are essential in life. In the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez and The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe, loneliness is one of the main dilemmas that the main characters of the novels encounter. In the novels, the main characters are constantly looking for a way to overcome their loneliness in the world and in many cases try to find it through sexual relationships. Patriarch José Arcadio Buendia, in One Hundred Years of Solitude, is the founder of Macondo. Mocondo's location is significant as it is located in an isolated place which gives the feeling that the Buendia family is surrounded by solitude. It also appears that loneliness is a hereditary trait of the Buendia family that leads to a pattern of incest, started by José Arcadio Buendia and his wife, who is also his first cousin, Ursula Iguaran. Sex is probably used in the novel as a way to unite the family in some way. Sex can be used as a tool to make mutual connections and can create body language that can also be a way of communicating. We see this especially in the second generation of the family, when Colonel Aureliano Buendia has sex during the wars with seventeen different women (towards whom he shows no sign of predilection). It can also be inferred that he embarked on a journey to free himself from loneliness and was overall unsuccessful as was demonstrated when he attempted to get together with the "mulatto" teenager enslaved by his grandmother. This shows an effort on the part of one of the Buendia men to try to have a loving relationship with another character... in the middle of the paper... there was no particular need to rush to escape." (239). Realizing his situation, he becomes one with the dunes and is able to live a meaningful life with the woman he once resisted living with without any kind of sexual relationship, any of the characters in the One Hundred Years of novels solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez and The Woman in the Kobo Abe's Dunes would be explored in depth. Sex usually reveals a hidden hope or apprehension, desire and longing for something, a desire for identity and companionship, and it is something they aspire to achieve this goal, they attempt to use sex as a tool to triumph over loneliness and gain communication and connection to reach each other is why sex is essential in providing two crucial things that are needed in life to avoid loneliness.