El Otoño del Patriarca / The Autumn of the Patriarch, (Paperback)

from stillatim

I picked this up thanks to William Gass's otherwise terrible essay on magical realism; the essay reminded me that I'd never read any, unless you count very early Borges, or believe that everything ever written in Spanish is magical realism (a position Gass seems to flirt with). The reasons I have...

from ECBesa

Not my favorite novel but interesting point of view by a dictator of a country.

from dtra

As many have said, this book was hard to read, the last sentence (which I'm pretty sure is the whole last chapter) was long, but on top of that, there was the changing persona of the narrator. The story is really good, but in the end, I rated it down because of the difficulty I had in reading it,...

from EadieB

This is a very complex novel and a bit hard to understand because of it's unconventional structure. The sentences are formed with thought after thought and run-on sometimes for a page or two switching from first person to third person. It is full of symbolic description which makes the meaning ha...

from rventura

About 20 years after I purchased this book in used bookstore, i finally read it. The typeface was small, which made it even harder to read with the lack of paragraph breaks and long, long sentence crammed with Marquez's story and visions. My rabbit in college had eaten the binding and the edges o...