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The autumn of the patriarch / Gabriel García Márquez

By:

García Márquez, Gabriel, (1928-2014)

Contributor(s):

Rabassa, Gregory

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : HarperPerennial , 2006, c1975Description: 255 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780060882860

Subject(s):

Dictator -- -Fiction

DDC classification:

LAS FIC GAR

Summary: From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator of The Autumn of the Patriarch embodies the best but also the worst of human nature. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 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 reader to a world that is at once fanciful and vividly real.

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Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS FIC GAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		031061

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From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator of The Autumn of the Patriarch embodies the best but also the worst of human nature. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 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 reader to a world that is at once fanciful and vividly real.

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