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It asks to be read more than twice, and the rewards are dazzling Observer Delights with its quirky humanity and black humour and impresses by its total originality Vogue Captures perfectly the moral squalor and political paralysis that enshrouds a society awaiting the death of a long-term dictator Guardian
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One of Gabriel García Márquez's most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant andthe 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 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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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. Read the first page
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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. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
this is a book to be read with the filling not with the logic,
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This review is from: The Autumn Of The Patriarch (Paperback)
I read this book 25 years ago when I was younger and at the beginning I was frustrated by lack of paragraphs and punctuation, but I kept reading until I gave up on my previous preconception on how a text should be structured and presented. Starting that point, the reading became a pleasure and at the end of my reading, I realized actually that I read of the best books ever created.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Simply couldn't finish it...,
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I am one of GGM's big fans. However, for some reason I found this book extemely difficult to read. Too much magical realism, if you ask me. I gave it quite a few shots and failed miserably.I recommend that before you bite into this one, you read some other books of his.
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Phenomenal,
By Christopher Braden (Herndon, VA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Autumn Of The Patriarch (Paperback)
Autumn of the Patriarch was a fantastic book, endemic of the classics, deep on many levels and actually better than One Hundred Years of Solitude. Much like Marquez's other work, he paints pictures and concepts in fragments of time, glimpses of memories and remembrances, and pieces of his characters personalities. The perspective and narration shift, sometimes intangibly and in mid-sentence. The effect is mosaic and powerful. He eloquently captures the essence of dictatorships and abuse and distortion of power from a distinctively non-Western perspective. The character in this novel is a composite of multiple Latin American dictators, written in the fantastic and surreal style that is Marquez and is similar to Rushdie.
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