The Autumn of the Patriarch  (English, Paperback, Garcia Marquez Gabriel)

According to the author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch is a “poem on the solitude of power”. The book is about the life of an eternal dictator. It is divided into six sections and discusses the limitless power of the Caribbean tormenter. The story is ultimately about the disaster that strikes when boundless power is given to a single man.

Summary of the Book

The story is written in long paragraphs that contain extended sentences. It is about a dictator, a ruthless and cruel man, who lives a life of loneliness, but is consumed by his power with complete disregard for the damage that it has caused. The protagonist holds a God-like status in the book that is similar to the kind of respect that the dictators the real world has seen. The respect and regard that he gets from his people will leave us in awe. In this book, Gabriel Garcia Marquez has successfully managed to base his fictional characters on some real-life autocrats.

About Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. He is known in his native as Gabo, and is said to be amongst the most significant authors of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in the year 1982. After having studied in the University of Bogota, he worked with the Columbian newspaper El Espectador.