The Autumn of the Patriarch

Name: The Autumn of the Patriarch
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Autor: Gabriel García Márquez

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A true poem about the loneliness of power written by one of the greatest masters of 20th-century Latin American literature.

His first novel after One Hundred Years of Solitude , The Autumn of the Patriarch , published in 1975, is an allegory of authoritarianism in Latin America. Through the delusions of a chimerical, legendary, and archaeological dictator, the author erected another of his literary cathedrals. Having held power for over a century, García Márquez's patriarch moves time forward and backward in monologues that encompass dialogues, constructed with images that evoke madness and lyricism, decentering history, geography, and language.

Thus, The Autumn of the Patriarch tells the saga of a dictator, ranging in age from 107 to 232, wandering in a universe where everything leads to the memory of accumulated time. In the presidential palace, where cows graze, the patriarch is a loner among concubines, haunted by a senile sexual appetite, listening to harps in the wind and the rising tides, turning back clocks and scheming in a setting where wandering chickens peck at furniture and corpses. Solitude precipitates terror and unleashes superstition in a vast bazaar of mythology about power on the continent.

The patriarch canonized his mother by decree, appointed his son a general on the day of his birth, sold the sea to a foreign power to pay off his foreign debt, was betrayed by his most loyal general, allowed himself to be dominated by a woman who ended up having greater power than his own, and then by a head of the repressive apparatus. Alone and powerless, he changed the plots of soap operas and read exclusive editions of the Official Gazette , written just for him.

If in Macondo's magical dream, death was greeted by showers of golden leaves, this sunset of the patriarch, García Márquez, brings the wretched nightmare of decrepitude, virulence, corruption, and perversion. The deadly ants in the final chapter of One Hundred Years of Solitude serve as an epigraph to this foretold autumn. They are masterpieces that complement each other, follow one another, constituting unsurpassed fables. The patriarch 's autumn is one of the finest moments of the master of magical realism's creative genius.

ISBN	978-850-100-973-9
Tradutor	Remy Gorga Filho
Altura	210 mm
Largura	135 mm
Profundidade	16 mm
Lançamento	01/05/1976
Páginas	272

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Sobre o autor

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014), também conhecido como Gabo, nasceu na aldeia de Aracataca nas imediações de Barranquilla, Colômbia. Começou seu trabalho de jornalista em 1949, atuando em diversas jornais e cidades, inclusive como correspondente internacional em Nova York para o jornal El Espectador. Posteriormente, sua obra jornalística foi compilada e publicada em 5 volumes. Mas foi na ficção em que alcançou reconhecimento internacional, sendo autor de alguns dos maiores romances do século XX e considerado mestre do realismo mágico latino-americano. Em 1982, recebeu o Prêmio Nobel de Literatura pelo conjunto de sua obra. Entre suas principais obras estão Cem anos de solidão, O amor nos tempos de cólera, Crônica de uma morte anunciada, Notícia de um sequestro e Memória de minhas putas tristes.