The Autumn of the Patriarch Paperback - 2006
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Majestic . . . superb. . . . A stunning portrait of the archetype, the pathological fascist tyrant. Garcia Marquez is as exorbitant as Melville and Dostoyevsky".--New York Times Book Review.
First line
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 awoke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead and rotting grandeur.
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One of Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez'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 Garc�a M�rquez, 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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- Title The Autumn of the Patriarch
- Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Rep Tra
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial
- Date 2006-03-14
- ISBN 9780060882860 / 0060882867
- Weight 0.52 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.92 x 0.68 in (20.37 x 15.04 x 1.73 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Political corruption
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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