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Autumn of the Patriarch (Hardcover)

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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Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Borgo Pr (June 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0809591375
ISBN-13: 978-0809591374

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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�toiles sur 5 this is a book to be read with the filling not with the logic, Mars 7 2009

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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�toiles sur 5 Simply couldn't finish it..., Oct. 22 2003

Par	Juan C Villamil (Bogota, Colombia) - Voir tous mes commentaires (REAL NAME)

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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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5.0�toiles sur 5 Phenomenal, Sep 25 2003

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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�toiles sur 5 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

Publi� le F�v 19 2005 par Anna

5.0�toiles sur 5 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

Publi� le Jui 24 2004

5.0�toiles sur 5 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

Publi� le Jui 14 2004 par supermang78

5.0�toiles sur 5 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

Publi� le Janv. 5 2004 par Aeromonk