The fall of the patriarch
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The fall of the patriarch
6.99 €
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - the greatest writer of the twentieth century, Nobel Prize winner, author of the world-famous novels "One Hundred Years of Solitude", "Love in the Time of Plague" and "Autumn of the Patriarch".
"I always wanted to write a book about absolute power," - so the author defined the main theme of his work.
The dictator of an unnamed Latin American country has been in power for so long that he no longer remembers how he came to it. He is already a man, and a revived myth, and a puppeteer, and a puppet in the hands of Rock. He is completely alone in his huge palace, where the real and the unreal neighbor in the most bizarre way.
He wants and fears death. But... is there death for the embodiment of a legend?
Perhaps the ruler will be happy only when he dies and realizes that for him "the countless hours of eternity are finally over"?
"I always wanted to write a book about absolute power," - so the author defined the main theme of his work.
The dictator of an unnamed Latin American country has been in power for so long that he no longer remembers how he came to it. He is already a man, and a revived myth, and a puppeteer, and a puppet in the hands of Rock. He is completely alone in his huge palace, where the real and the unreal neighbor in the most bizarre way.
He wants and fears death. But... is there death for the embodiment of a legend?
Perhaps the ruler will be happy only when he dies and realizes that for him "the countless hours of eternity are finally over"?
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