El otoño del patriarca (or The Autumn of the Patriarch) is a novel written by Gabriel García Márquez. Released in 1975, it tells of the life of a Caribbean dictator.
Characters[]
- The General
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Publisher's summary[]
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, explores the loneliness of power in Autumn of the Patriarch.
'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'
As the citizens of an unnamed Caribbean nation creep through dusty corridors in search of their tyrannical leader, they cannot comprehend that the frail and withered man lying dead on the floor can be the self-styled General of the Universe. Their arrogant, manically violent leader, known for serving up traitors to dinner guests and drowning young children at sea, can surely not die the humiliating death of a mere mortal?
Tracing the demands of a man whose egocentric excesses mask the loneliness of isolation and whose lies have become so ingrained that they are indistinguishable from truth, Marquez has created a fantastical portrait of despotism that rings with an air of reality.
See also[]
| Title | Author | Release date | Significance |
|---|---|---|---|
| The General in His Labyrinth | Gabriel García Márquez | 1989 | Another dictator novel by the same author |
| The Feast of the Goat | Mario Vargas Llosa | 2000 | Another dictator novel |
| I, the Supreme | Augusto Roa Bastos | 1974 | Another dictator novel |
| Facundo | Domingo Faustino Sarmiento | 1845 | A nonfiction book with similar themes |
Sources[]
- Wikipedia
- Goodreads