SUMMARY: '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 the dusty corridors of the presidential
Autumn of the Patriarch
✍ Scribed by Gabriel García Márquez
- Publisher
- Avon Books
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 151 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Review
"Majestic...Superb...a stunning portrait of the archetype, the pathological fascist tyrant. Garc'a M+rquez is as exorbitant as Melville and Dostoyevsky." -- *_*New York Times Book Review_
Product Description
One of Gabriel García Márquez'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 and the worst of human nature. Gabriel García Márquez, the renowned master of magical realism, vividly portrays the dying tyrant caught in the prison of his own dictator-ship. Employing an innovative, dreamlike style, and overflowing with symbolic descriptions, the novel transports the reader to a world that is at once fanciful and real.
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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* emb
SUMMARY: '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 the dusty corridors of the presidential