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by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Author) "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..." (more)
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"The Autumn of the Patriarch mines one of the darkest veins in Latin American political history. The central character is a composite of Trujillos, Batistas and Somozas. His is a genius at the barren politics of survival, capable and guilty of the most savage brutality, a lonely monster who shuffles through his palace every night, checking the locks, looking for assassins, lighting a lantern for a quick exit." --This text refers to the Paperback edition.


-- New York Times Book Review

"Majestic...Superb...A stunning portrait of hte archetype, the pathological fascist tyrant." --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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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, Mar 7 2009
By M. Rau "pirea" (WL) - See all my reviews
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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.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Simply couldn't finish it..., Oct 22 2003
By Juan C Villamil (Bogota, Colombia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Autumn Of The Patriarch (Paperback)
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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5.0 out of 5 stars Phenomenal, Sep 25 2003
By Christopher Braden (Herndon, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars a truly powerful book
After reading only a few pages of The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, I was convinced that I would go crazy if I tried to finsh this book. Read more
Published on Feb 19 2005 by Anna

5.0 out of 5 stars Pure genius
The people who have said this book is difficult probably just weren't prepared for it. This is second only to 100 Years as Garcia's most amazing work. Read more
Published on Jun 24 2004

5.0 out of 5 stars Underrated Masterpiece
I read this book in the original Spanish and it amazes me that the same person that could write Love in the times of Cholera which deals with love, could also write a book this... Read more
Published on Jun 14 2004 by supermang78

5.0 out of 5 stars Community of Voice
How else do you narrate a dictatorship? Nice and pat and all publisher-friendly? So that 'reader response' will vote in your favor? Read more
Published on Jan 5 2004 by Aeromonk

5.0 out of 5 stars I donot intend to die again, Goddammit, let other people die
This is perhaps the most difficult book I have ever read in my life. Could be the hardest I will ever read. It is a discriptive Stream of Consciousness novel. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars A poem in prose, about a dictator and his realm of gloom
This is the tragic story of a dictator and the country he rules for 100 years. He is unwittingly installed in the seat of power by the imperialists, the fifteenth dictator in... Read more
Published on April 27 2003 by Amit Jain

4.0 out of 5 stars Works for me.
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Published on Feb 28 2003 by G. Moses

5.0 out of 5 stars Surreal, horrific indictment of dictatorship
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