The General in His Labyrinth
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The General in His Labyrinth
| Author | Gabriel García Márquez |
|---|---|
| Published | 1989 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | García Márquez’s novel of Simón Bolívar’s last seven months — the journey down the Magdalena toward an exile he never reaches, with the union of Spanish America he built coming apart behind him. The least magical and most documentary of his novels: a founder’s last months, written without the consolation of the founding myth. |
The General in His Labyrinth
Where I heard about it
- a16z’s infrastructure team — on the a16z Infra Reading List, in the Fantasy section, fourth of five García Márquez works they group as “sprawling family sagas” about solitude, love, power and circular time; this one applies that reading to a real person.
About this edition
El general en su laberinto, 1989, translated by Edith Grossman in 1990.
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.
- Historical Fiction — the genre this one actually sits in.
- Power — what Bolívar is losing across the book.
- 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.