The Autumn of the Patriarch
By Gabriel García Márquez & Gregory RabassaPublisher 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 dictatorship. Employing an innovative, dreamlike style, and overflowing with symbolic descriptions, the novel transports the listener to a world that is at once fanciful and real.
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Created 7 months agoAbout Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) was an author, journalist, and pioneer of the Latin American boom. Among his many books are The Autumn of the Patriarch, No One Writes to the Colonel, Love in the Time of Cholera, Living to Tell the Tale, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, and the classic One Hundred Years of Solitude. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.
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Gregory Rabassa
Gregory Rabassa (1922–2016) was an American literary translator from Spanish and Portuguese to English. His translations include works by Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar, and Jorge Franco. He taught for many years at Columbia University and Queens College.
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