The autumn of the patriarch / Gabriel García Márquez ; translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa.

By:

García Márquez, Gabriel, 1928-

Contributor(s):

Rabassa, Gregory

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Publication details: New York : Penguin books, 1996.Edition: Penguin edDescription: 229 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:

978-0140157536

Uniform titles:

Otoño del patriarca. English

Subject(s):

Spanish fiction -- Translations into English

DDC classification:

863 M357a 1996 21

LOC classification:

PQ8180.17.A73 O813 1999

Online resources:

Publisher description

Summary: One of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant and the corruption of power. Employing an innovative, dreamlike style, the novel is overflowing with symbolic descriptions as it vividly portrays the dying tyrant caught in the prison of his own dictatorship. From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator embodies at once the best and the worst of human nature.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Premier University Central Library	863M357a 1996	1	Available		15558

One of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is a brilliant tale of a Caribbean tyrant and the corruption of power. Employing an innovative, dreamlike style, the novel is overflowing with symbolic descriptions as it vividly portrays the dying tyrant caught in the prison of his own dictatorship. From charity to deceit, benevolence to violence, fear of God to extreme cruelty, the dictator embodies at once the best and the worst of human nature.

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