El otoño del patriarca

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El otoño del patriarca is a novel by Gabriel García Márquez that portrays the lonely, decaying rule of a Caribbean dictator through a dense, poetic stream-of-consciousness style characteristic of magical realism.

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instanceOf novel
author Gabriel García Márquez
awarded Rómulo Gallegos Prize
surface form: Rómulo Gallegos Prize shortlist
countryOfOrigin Colombia
genre dictator novel
magical realism
novel
hasInfluenceOn Latin American political fiction
later dictator novels
hasLiteraryForm prose
hasSubject absolute power
abuse of power
cult of personality
decay of authoritarian regimes
isolation of the ruler
hasTranslation The Autumn of the Patriarch
influencedBy Caribbean political history
Latin American military dictatorships
languageOfWorkOrName Spanish
literaryMovement Latin American Boom
mainCharacter unnamed Caribbean dictator
narrativePerspective shifting point of view
narrativeStyle long sentences
nonlinear narrative
stream of consciousness
notableFor dense poetic language
fusion of myth and political reality
very long paragraphs
originalLanguage Spanish
partOf Latin American dictator novel tradition
partOfAuthorOeuvre major works of Gabriel García Márquez
periodOfWork 20th century literature
placeOfPublication Buenos Aires
publicationYear 1975
publisher Editorial Sudamericana
setting Caribbean
fictional Caribbean dictatorship
theme corruption
death
decay
dictatorship
myth of the caudillo
power
solitude
time
titleInEnglish The Autumn of the Patriarch
translator Gregory Rabassa

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