The Autumn of the Patriarch Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. — Back of book reviews: — ?Majestic?mystic, surrealistic ? a stunning portrait of a monstrous tyrant? ? The New York Times — ?Set in an unspecified Caribbean country, dominated by a dictator who has just died after a reign of over 200 years?the book is essentially concerned with deception and illusion... more »?like its predecessor [One Hundred Years of Solitude] it asks to be read more than twice, and the rewards are dazzling? ? Alastair Reid in the Observer
?Mesmeric, ornate, horrifying?a magnificat to harsh Latin American reality? ? Jill Neville in the Sunday Times
?Marquez has written a baroque legend?[The Autumn of the Patriarch] delights with its quirky humanity and black humour and impresses by its grandeur, by the solemn reverberations of its imagery and above all by its total originality? ? Lucy Hughes-Hallett in Vogue
?Marquez is the master weaver of the real and the conjectured. His descriptive powers astounds? ? V.S. Pritchett in the New Statesman.« less
Ellen H. (eeeee) reviewed The Autumn of the Patriarch on
I thought this novel was incredible. It amazes me how well Gabriel Garcia Marquez can convey such a strong sense of Latin American history through surreal fiction.