El Otono Del Patriarca / The Autumn Of The Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez
A haunting, lyrical portrait of a once-omnipotent Caribbean dictator whose decades-long rule is shown as a timeless, mythic decline: through long, flowing sentences and a fragmented, circular chronology the narrative catalogs his arbitrary decrees, violent purges, grotesque excesses, and the sycophantic court that sustains him, while illness, memory lapses, and solitude erode his authority and reveal the corrosive loneliness and moral decay at the heart of absolute power.
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- Published
- 1975
- Nationality
- Colombian
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- Original Language
- Spanish
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