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The autumn of the patriarch

by Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa

This experimental novel depicts the agonising decline and death of a Latin American dictator. Written in six continuous narrative blocks without paragraph breaks or dialogue, the work explores the corrupting nature of absolute power.

Accession 10264 ISBN 0330255606 Publisher Pan
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In the presidential palace of an anonymous Latin American country lies the rotting corpse of a dictator - the Patriarch... Now, as the vultures and worms feast on his remains, the process of demythologising begins, the memories of those who loved him and those who hated him combining in a rich and complex patchwork of narrative to provide a memorable portrait of a memorably evil tyrant. -- Cover.

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Gabriel García Márquez, Gregory Rabassa
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