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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. From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator of The Autumn of the Patriarch embodies the best but also the worst of human nature. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the renowned master of magical realism, vividly portrays the dying tyrant caught in the prison of his own dictatorship. Employing an innovative, dreamlike style, and overflowing with symbolic descriptions, the novel transports the reader to a world that is at once fanciful and vividly real.
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Modern Classics: The Autumn of the Patriarch, Gabriel García Márquez
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- Released
- 2006
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- Released
- 2006
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 255
- ISBN10
- 0060882867
- ISBN13
- 9780060882860
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Classics, Death, Spanish Literature, Magical Realism, Latin American Literature, Old Age, Caribbean, Totalitarian regimes, 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. From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator of The Autumn of the Patriarch embodies the best but also the worst of human nature. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the renowned master of magical realism, vividly portrays the dying tyrant caught in the prison of his own dictatorship. Employing an innovative, dreamlike style, and overflowing with symbolic descriptions, the novel transports the reader to a world that is at once fanciful and vividly real.