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Garca Mrquez ha declarado una y otra vez que El otoo del patriarca es la novela en la que ms trabajo y esfuerzo invirti. En efecto, Garca Mrquez construy aqu una maquinaria narrativa perfecta que desgrana una historia universal –la agona y muerte de un dictador– en forma cclica, experimental y real al mismo tiempo, repitiendo una ancdota siempre igual y siempre distinta, acumulando hechos y descripciones deslumbrantes.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

One of Gabriel Garca Mrquez’s most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant and the corruption of power.

From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator of The Autumn of the Patriarch embodies the best and the worst of human nature. Gabriel Garca Mrquez, the renowned master of magical realism, vividly portrays the dying tyrant caught in the prison of his own dictator-ship. Employing an innovative, dreamlike style, and overflowing with symbolic descriptions, the novel transports the reader to a world that is at once fanciful and real.