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The Autumn of the Patriarch
First edition (Spanish)
AuthorGabriel García Márquez
Original titleEl otoño del patriarca
TranslatorGregory Rabassa
CountryColombia
LanguageSpanish
PublisherPlaza & Janes (Spain)
Publication date
1975
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
ISBN0-06-011419-3
OCLC2464022
Dewey Decimal
863
LC ClassPQ8180.17.A73 O813 1976

The Autumn of the Patriarch (original Spanish title: El otoño del patriarca) is a 1975 novel by Gabriel García Márquez.

A "poem on the solitude of power" according to the author, the novel is a flowing tract on the life of an eternal dictator. The book is divided into six sections, each retelling the same story of the infinite power held by the archetypical Caribbean tyrant.

García Márquez based his fictional dictator on a variety of real-life leaders, including Gustavo Rojas Pinilla of his Colombian homeland, Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain (the novel was written in Barcelona), and Venezuela's Juan Vicente Gómez. The product is a universal story of the disastrous effects created by the concentration of power into a single man.

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