Summary
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Autumn of the Patriarch
"Autumn of the Patriarch" is still famous as the author's most ambitious project. Imagining a novel about a Caribbean dictator on the trail of high modernism, looking primarily at the legacy of Joyce and Beckett, Márquez created a labyrinth of fluid prose from the seemingly atypical biography of a Latin American dictator in which violence and corruption, faith, cruelty permeate. and love are intertwined in a strange way.
A masterpiece of an unforgettable style, this fairytale story about a dying tyrant or, as the author himself once wrote, "a poem about the loneliness of the powerful", is the novel that made Gabriel García Márquez the most recognized and popular representative of magical realism.
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