Dec 21, 2009

The Autumn of the Patriarch | The Autumn of the Patriarch

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Author: Gabriel García Márquez
First Published: 1975
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Parable
Time of Work: The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Setting: An unnamed Caribbean country
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

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The patriarch, also called the general, the “All Pure,” the “Magnificent,” and so on, an unnamed Latin American dictator who is somewhere between the ages of 107 and 232. At one point, he writes a note to himself reading “my name is Zacarias” (sah-kah-REE-ahs), but because this event occurs after his senility has progressed, the writing of the note, like many other events in the novel, is suspect. Superstitious, paranoid, and ruthless, illiterate but peasant-shrewd, he rules from a palace that has been converted into a marketplace. It is overrun...

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The Autumn of the Patriarch | The Autumn of the Patriarch

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