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Autumn of the Patriarch

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Gabriel García Márquez is the greatest writer of the 20th century, a Nobel Prize laureate, and the author of the world-renowned novels One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, and The Autumn of the Patriarch. "I always wanted to write a book about absolute power," is how the author defined the main theme of his novel-poem about a mythical tyrant, The Autumn of the Patriarch. The dictator of an unnamed Latin American country has been in power for so long that he no longer remembers how he came to power or who he really is—a man or a living myth, a master of destinies or a pitiful puppet in the hands of an inexorable Fate. He is utterly alone in his vast palace, where the real and the unreal coexist in the most bizarre way. He desires death and simultaneously fears it. And is there even death for a living legend? Sometimes he thinks he will only be happy after he dies, and the endless time of eternity finally comes to a standstill...
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