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One of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant and the corruption of power. Employing an innovative, dreamlike style, the novel is overflowing with symbolic descriptions as it vividly portrays the dying tyrant caught in the prison of his own dictatorship. From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator embodies at once the best and the worst of human nature.
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The Autumn of the Patriarch, Gabriel García Márquez
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- Released
- 1978
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Publisher
- Picador
- Released
- 1978
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 206
- ISBN10
- 0330255606
- ISBN13
- 9780330255608
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Classics, Death, Spanish Literature, Magical Realism, Latin American Literature, Old Age, Totalitarian regimes, Caribbean, Colombian Literature, Novel about a Dictator
- First published
- 1975
- Original title
- El otoño del patriarca
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- Description
- One of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant and the corruption of power. Employing an innovative, dreamlike style, the novel is overflowing with symbolic descriptions as it vividly portrays the dying tyrant caught in the prison of his own dictatorship. From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator embodies at once the best and the worst of human nature.