Gabriel García Márquez
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| Title | : | The Autumn of the Patriarch |
| Author | : | Gabriel García Márquez |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 255 pages |
| Published | : | March 14th 2006 by Harper Perennial Modern Classics (first published 1975) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Magical Realism. Classics. Novels |
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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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| Original Title: | El otoño del patriarca |
| ISBN: | 0060882867 (ISBN13: 9780060882860) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | PEN Translation Prize for Gregory Rabassa (1977), National Book Award Finalist for Translation (1977), Mikael Agricola -palkinto (1987) |
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Ratings: 3.85 From 17362 Users | 1021 ReviewsDiscuss About Books The Autumn of the Patriarch
It took Garcia seven years to write this book. Seven years. I guess that's how long it takes to make sure fifty-page chapters are turned into one paragraph and as few sentences as possible. But the effect is to make the entire book run together and make each story within the story melt into the ones around it. The consequence is ending the reader's sense of chronology, timeline, and even details. We are only left with the horrible man - and leader - that was the patriarch. And when the storyThe Autumn of the Patriarch by one of my favorite Latin American authors, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, was a very disturbing account of a most tyrannical dictator in the Caribbean as he faces the last days of his reign. Many years ago when we were vacationing in Mexico, we met this lovely couple from Mexico City in Puerto Vallarta. It was a delightful time as we became acquainted and one of the threads that drew us together was the beautiful literature of Gabriel Garcia Marquez that resonated with
This is the most powerful GGM novel I have read. Written over 7 years from 1968 to 1975 it metaphorically condemns dictatorial powers. Rafeal Trujillo comes to mind, but there were many other (Caribbean and elsewhere) dictators of the time to inspire it and the portrait is valid today. You read how the dictator treats his double, courts the most beautiful woman in the country, destroys anyone with a hint of knowledge of his ill gotten gains, marries and how his wife and son die and what is done
A very strange book that narrates the decline of a paranoid dictatorial regime and his "Patriarch". A totally crazy and surrealist story, which, however, behind all this madness hides many things. Through this story, the author refers to all the dictatorial regimes imposed on the world and characterized by absolute paranoia and by the personality cult towards the supposed great leader, who in fact was a man of modest possibilities, not particularly smart, with a tendency to sinking into his own
Hypnotic and brilliant.This is my fourth Garcia Marquez book and this is said to be his most difficult book to read. It took him four (1968-1971) years to write this book. Four years. He wrote this as a follow up novel to his masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude that catapulted him to stardom in the world literary arena. This was his most recent novel when he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.I picked this 1001 book because there was a new member in our book club who is also a
Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside, and at dawn on Monday the city woke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead and rotting grandeur. Thus begins Gabriel Garcia Marquez's acclaimed novel The Autumn of the Patriarch, about the life and death of the dictator in an unnamed Latin American country. This first
Real Rating: 4.75* of fiveI can't full-five a book I read three decades ago in the midst of my Latin-American-delights phase. I can tell you that the translation is excellent, captures the spirit of the original Spanish if not the literal idioms. It's a brief book but not a light one, in any sense of the word. I suspect lots of readers look at its length and think, "oh goody good good, a shorty and I can say I've read a García Márquez!"And were they ever sorry. Fascism was fought back into
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