- Fiction, Latin American fiction, Fiction in Spanish, Dictators in fiction
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.
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Prestige, contemplative, meticulous and grave.
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- rawmeticulous
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
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About the book
- First published
- October 1, 1999
- Pages
- 271
- Publisher
- Sudamericana, Avon Books, Editorial Oveja Negra
- Editions
- 78
- Language
- Italian, per, gre, German
- ISBN
- 9780224013949
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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.”
Gabriel García Márquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, affectionately known as "Gabo" throughout Latin America, is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in his 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; they have two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo. He started as a journalist, and has written many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels,
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