by Gabriel García Márquez · Plaza & Janés Editories Sa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401242298
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«El otoño del patriarca» is the novel by Gabriel García Márquez published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (296 pages, in Spanish).
The work revolves around an eternal dictator in an unnamed Caribbean country; after his death, his long power is reconstructed. Mixing reality and fantasy, it shows a mythical patriarch marked by the delusion of omnipotence, solitude, corruption and decadence, with singular language and structure.
The novel was originally published in 1975; this 1997 edition is in Spanish and its ISBN-10 is 8401242290.
For readers of Latin American literature and magical realism, and for those who want to approach the work of Gabriel García Márquez.
Gabriel José García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.
