The autumn of the patriarch
by Garcia Marquez, Gabriefrey50
Published by : Harper & Row (New York) , 1975 Physical details: 269 p. ISBN:0060114193.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Basement | Gar (Browse shelf) | Available | 45774 |
A dictator's body is discovered in his enormous, crumbling palace. Revolutionaries burst in and find his rotting corpse in an anarchic tangle of past and present- a present already lost and decayed, a past of almost unimaginable richness in which the palace was crowded with the dictator's ministers, bodyguards and servants, who kept him precariously balanced in power, and also with a tribe of women and children. The atmosphere is dream like -- even nightmarish--real, vibrant and sensually exact, and at the same time vague and almost unbelievable.