by Gabriel García Márquez · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401301551
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«El otoño del patriarca» is the novel by Gabriel García Márquez, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (271 pages, in Spanish).
The book portrays an unnamed Caribbean dictator, a symbol of Latin America's patriarchs, and explores the solitude of absolute power. The circular narrative, in six blocks without dialogue or paragraph breaks, accumulates versions of the same story and addresses corruption, oppression, and the decline of a personal regime.
The novel was written in Barcelona between 1968 and 1975; it belongs to the Novelistas del día collection and was originally published in 1975.
For readers of Latin American fiction and magical realism, especially followers 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.
