The Autumn of the Patriarch
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The Autumn of the Patriarch
| Author | Gabriel García Márquez |
|---|---|
| Published | 1975 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | García Márquez’s 1975 dictator novel, written in six long movements whose sentences run for pages and slide between narrators mid-clause, so reading it reproduces a regime with no fixed account of itself — his subject here is power and the solitude it produces. |
The Autumn of the Patriarch
Where I heard about it
- The a16z infrastructure team — on the a16z Infra Reading List, in its explicitly off-genre Fantasy section (“we are not fantasy people really”), the second of five García Márquez titles after One Hundred Years of Solitude, describing him as a giant of Latin American literature who folds impossible events into ordinary life.
About this edition
El otoño del patriarca, translated by Gregory Rabassa. García Márquez won the Nobel Prize in 1982.
Connections
- a16z Infra Reading List — the list this came from.
- Gabriel García Márquez — the author.
- One Hundred Years of Solitude — the first of his titles on the list, already carded.
- Power — the book’s actual subject.
- Literature — where this sits in the corpus.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.