{"product_id":"o-outono-do-patriarca","title":"The Autumn of the Patriarch","description":"\"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eA true poem about the loneliness of power written by one of the greatest masters of 20th-century Latin American literature.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eHis first novel after \u003cem\u003eOne Hundred\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eYears\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eof\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eSolitude\u003c\/em\u003e , \u003cem\u003eThe Autumn of the Patriarch\u003c\/em\u003e , 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThus, \u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eAutumn\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eof the\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003ePatriarch\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003cem\u003eOfficial Gazette\u003c\/em\u003e , written just for him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eIf 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 \u003cem\u003eOne Hundred\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eYears\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eof\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eSolitude\u003c\/em\u003e serve as an epigraph to this foretold autumn. They are masterpieces that complement each other, follow one another, constituting unsurpassed fables. \u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003epatriarch\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e's\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eautumn\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the finest moments of the master of magical realism's creative genius.\u003c\/p\u003e \"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159388766460,"sku":"9788501009739","price":69.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/ddb300d191f5b95e8183d5ab49ccaf20_4bedc9b3-00c0-4388-9aca-1d9989216319.jpg?v=1778326050","url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/products\/o-outono-do-patriarca","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}