El general en su laberinto / The General in His Labyrinth (Paperback)

from santhony

I recently read the author's acclaimed work "Love in the Time of Cholera" and enjoyed it very much. It spurred me to seek out more work by Marquez, hence this and several others that I recently purchased. My second foray into Marquez was "One Hundred Years of Solitude". I was very disappointed in...

from wouterzzzzz

At times this Marquez novel is a bit slow, but in general it simply is a very good book. We follow the general on his journey, and see how he has to cope with diseases and his personal struggles. Don't expect too much excitement, but if you like good story-telling, Marquez' books are perfect.

from FPdC

The fictional reconstruction of the last voyage of Simon Bolívar, at the end of 1830, from Bogotá to the caribean coast of Colombia. The journey on the Magdalena river and the stay on the coast is described with the customary mastery of Marquéz, and the book, with its flash-backs into the general...

from nandadevi

Marquez had a long standing ambition to write a historical novel about Simon Bolivar´s last days. But when he came to it, and when he was done with it, he talked about the ´horror of this book´. Why did he choose to write the story of a man´s life at that time when his political legacy is rotting...

from DieFledermaus

Garcia Marquez's depiction of the last few months in the life of Simón Bolívar, liberator of South America, is an absorbing and interesting read. There's no magic realism in this one, but there are many ironies and absurdities, possible ghosts and portents, and occasional delusions. The overwhelm...