The Autumn of the Patriarch (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Gabriel García Márquez
- First Published: 1975
- Type of Plot: Episodic fantasy parable
- Time of Work: The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- Setting: An unnamed Caribbean country
- Principal Characters: The Patriarch, Bendición Alvarado, Patricio Aragonés, Leticia Nazareno, Emanuel, General Rodrigo de Aguilar, Manuela Sánchez, José Ignacio Saenz de la Barra
- Genres: Long fiction, Epic, Fantasy, Parable
- Subjects: Dictators, Caribbean, Power, personal or social, Politics, Murder or homicide, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Cruelty, Latin America or Latin Americans
- Locales: Caribbean
The Novel
The Autumn of the Patriarch, published eight years after Gabriel García Márquez’s highly praised Cien años de soledad (1967; One Hundred Years of Solitude, 1970), was a novel for which both general readers and critics had waited. It was, however, a project that García Márquez had put aside earlier to write One Hundred Years of Solitude because, as he has commented, he was writing it at first without any clear idea of what he was doing. García Márquez has said that he got the idea for writing the work two or three days after the...
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