The autumn of the patriarch
By: Gabriel Garciá Márquez ; translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa.
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1976
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Translated from: spa
Translation of: El otoño del patriarca
Number of pages: 269
Work titles: Otoño del patriarca.
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.
Notes: Translation of El otoño del patriarca.

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