The Autumn of the Patriarch
1975 novel by Gabriel García Márquez / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Autumn of the Patriarch (original Spanish title: El otoño del patriarca) is a 1975 novel by Gabriel García Márquez.
Author | Gabriel García Márquez |
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Original title | El otoño del patriarca |
Translator | Gregory Rabassa |
Country | Colombia |
Language | Spanish |
Publisher | Plaza & Janes (Spain) |
Publication date | 1975 |
Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
ISBN | 0-06-011419-3 |
OCLC | 2464022 |
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LC Class | PQ8180.17.A73 O813 1976 |
A "poem on the solitude of power" according to the author, the novel is a flowing tract on the life of an eternal dictator. The book is divided into six sections, each retelling the same story of the infinite power held by the archetypical Caribbean tyrant.
García Márquez based his fictional dictator on a variety of real-life leaders, including Gustavo Rojas Pinilla of his Colombian homeland, Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain (the novel was written in Barcelona), and Venezuela's Juan Vicente Gómez. The product is a universal story of the disastrous effects created by the concentration of power into a single man.