by Gabriel García Márquez · Penguin Random House · tapa blanda · ISBN 8410018021775
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«El otoño del patriarca» is the novel by Gabriel García Márquez, published by Penguin Random House in paperback, in Spanish.
The novel portrays a Caribbean dictator who remains in power for decades and addresses the solitude, intrigues, and decadence surrounding tyranny. With a style of overlapping monologues, long sentences, and scenes repeated from different perspectives, the narrative dispenses with a linear chronology and demands attentive reading.
Novel published in 1975. Gabriel García Márquez received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
For readers of Latin American literature, followers of García Márquez, and those seeking a demanding novel about power and tyranny.
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.
