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.
An edition of Otoño Del Patriarca
(1973)
The autumn of the patriarch
by Gabriel García Márquez and Gregory Rabassa
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Gabriel García Márquez ha declarado una y otra vez que El otoño del patriarca es la novela en la que más trabajo y esfuerzo invirtió. En efecto, García Márquez ha construido una maquinaria narrativa perfecta que desgrana una historia universal -la agonía y muerte de un dictador- en forma cíclica, experimental y real al mismo tiempo, en seis bloques narrativos sin diálogos, sin puntos y aparte, repitiendo una anécdota siempre igual y siempre distinta, acumulando hechos y descripciones deslumbrantes.
Novela escrita en Barcelona entre 1968 y 1975, El otoño del patriarca deja asomar en su trasfondo el acontecimiento más importante de la historia española de aquellos años -la muerte del general Franco- aunque su contexto y estilo sean, como simpre en este escritor, el de la asombrosa realidad latinoamericana que García Márquez ha elevado una vez más a la dignidad de mito.
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Fiction, Latin American fiction, Fiction in Spanish, Dictators in fiction, Translations into English, Spanish fiction, Corruption, Dictators, Spanish language books, Translations into Croatian, Colombian fiction, Novela, Novela colombiana, Dictadores, Patriarcado, Patriarchy, Ficción, Translation into English, Translations from Spanish, English fiction, Loneliness, English texts, Fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, general, Roman, Français (langue), Lectures et morceaux choisis, Littérature hispano-américaine, World literature, Fiction subjects, Romance literature, Social conditionsShowing 10 featured editions. View all 78 editions?
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Translation of : El otoño del patriarca.
Portions of this work originally appeared in the New Yorker.
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