Autumn of the Patriarch

Name: Autumn of the Patriarch
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Poetic meditation on power and decline through an aging dictator's perspective over decades

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a Colombian author and Nobel laureate widely considered the father of magical realism. One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera blend everyday Colombian life with impossible events in a way that has influenced fantasy and science fiction enormously. His concept of solitude and repetition across generations informs much epic fantasy.

More by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One Hundred Years of SolitudeMultigenerational magical realism saga about cyclical time and fate in an isolated Colombian village
Love in the Time of CholeraRomance between elderly lovers separated by circumstance finally consummated across the decades
The Autumn of the PatriarchPoetic exploration of an aged dictator's decline and the mythic history of his regime
Chronicle of a Death ForetoldNovella narrating the circumstances and aftermath of a prophesied murder in a Colombian town
No One Writes to the ColonelPoignant story of an aging widowed veteran navigating poverty and American political indifference
The General in His LabyrinthBiographical fiction following liberator Simón Bolívar's final journey of disillusionment and loss