El otono del patriarca / The Autumn of the Patriarch (Spanish Edition) [Paperback]

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Author)

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ISBN-10: 9681317076 | ISBN-13: 978-9681317072 | Publication Date: June 17, 1988

This one of the most important novels written by this author which everyone must read.

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This book is a must for the ones that like Gabriel Garcia Marquez..You can read it and enjoy his unique style... -- Publisher Comments --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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The author Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Colombia. The author was the Nobel Literature Prizze in 1982 for his novel Cien anos de Soledad..he has written other novels such as "El otono del Patriarca"; "Cronica de una muerte anunciada"; "El coronel no tiene quien le escriba"; "Los Funerales de mama la grande" ; "ojos de perro azul" among other. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 297 pages
• Publisher: Editorial Diana Sa (June 17, 1988)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 9681317076
• ISBN-13: 978-9681317072
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,847,926 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars El realismo fantastico de Hispanoamerica, August 4, 1998

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This review is from: El otono del patriarca / The Autumn of the Patriarch (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

El otono del patriarca es una novela clave en dos aspectos: representa un desafio intelectual por su osada sintaxis y atrevida estructura gramatical, en el que el pasado y el presente se mezclan continuamente conforme avanza el relato, apenas separado por comas y ocasionales puntos seguidos. El segundo aspecto es la extraordinaria descripción que el autor realiza de los acontecimientos de la vida de una patria sin nombre gobernada desde los tiempos inmemoriales del vomito negro por un dictador anonimo, encarnacion de todos los generales mesianicos que ha padecido Latinoamerica, victima del culto a la personalidad.

El relato nos transporta en forma exquisita desde los albores de este imperio personal hasta la decadencia, en un ir y venir temporal, salpicado de relatos mitológicos, como el de Manuela Sanchez, una enigmatica belleza que surgio en el barrio de las peleas de perros, y quizas el unico ser de este mundo que burlo el poder omnipotente de este legendario gener! al. Una ultima sugerencia: lealo con un diccionario a mano.

8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mother Of Stream of Consciousness Latin American Novels, August 21, 1998

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This review is from: El otono del patriarca / The Autumn of the Patriarch (Spanish Edition) (Hardcover)

Garcia-Marquez 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. To some of us the most masterful novel of the Master Novelist of Meridian America.

5.0 out of 5 stars Otoño del Patriarca, September 15, 2009

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This review is from: Otono Del Partriarca, El (Spanish Edition) (Paperback)

This is a great book, much like earlier Garcia Marquez books. I advice everybody to read it.