Autumn of the Patriarch
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Autumn of the Patriarch

Paperback – October 11, 1991

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Price
$6.06
Format
Paperback
Pages
288
Publisher
HarpPeren
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-0060919634
Dimensions
0.51 x 5 x 6.5 inches
Weight
4 ounces

Description

"Majestic...Superb...a stunning portrait of the archetype, the pathological fascist tyrant. Garc'a M+rquez is as exorbitant as Melville and Dostoyevsky." -- New York Times Book Review Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1927 in the town of Aracataca, Columbia.Latin America's preeminent man of letters, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. García Márquez began his writing career as a journalist and is the author of numerous other works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels The Autumn of the Patriarch and Love in the Time of Cholera , and the autobiography Living to Tell the Tale . There has been resounding acclaim for his life's work since he passed away in April 2014.

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  • "Majestic . . . Superb . . . a stunning portrait of the archetype, the pathological fascist tyrant. Garcia Marquez is as exorbitant as Melville and Dostoyevsky."--
  • New York Times Book Review

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The Mother Of The Stream of Consciousness Novel

This dictator combines within himself, the best and the worst, of the human being when invested with absolute power: from charity to corruption, benevolence to rape, fear of God to extreme cruelty. The (sparse) punctuation follows an almost strict fitting of the Poisson statistical distribution, page by page, and then amongst chapters, constituting this into both a textbook in literature and statistics.
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