El general en su laberinto
After his internationally acclaimed and bestselling Love in the Time of Cholera, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist and author of the classic One Hundred Years of Solitude givesreat Simon Bolivar. Forced from power, the General embarks on a seven months' voyage down the Magdalena River, reflecting...
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After his internationally acclaimed and bestselling Love in the Time of Cholera, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist and author of the classic One Hundred Years of Solitude givesreat Simon Bolivar. Forced from power, the General embarks on a seven months' voyage down the Magdalena River, reflecting along the way on his life of campaigns and battles, love and loss.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9789500705516 (9500705516)
Publisher: Sudamericana
Pages no: 286
Edition language: Spanish
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Magical Realism,
Spanish Literature,
Latin American,
Latin American Literature
His feeble mind was only good for groping memories like vague shapes in the dark. His body was a withered portrait on the wall of some long forgotten castle. The writer sat down to write a simple love letter to a book he had known in his younger years. Now in the grips of his fever he remembered mor...
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This is a fictional account of the last few days of Simon Bolivar's life. It reads very much as a work by Garcia Marquez and has his typical concerns and stylistic conventions. Bolivar is seen as a metaphor for Latin American history. His life began in glory, but ended in failure and his life ref...
Written beautifully, as you would expect from Marquez, but neither the story or the characters were very engaging. This is at the bottom of my list of Marquez's books.
Generał w labiryncie to powieść przedstawiająca generała Simona Bolivara u schyłku swojego życia. Marquez zestawia ze sobą dwa obrazy tego samego człowieka - obecny: wyniszczonego, zmęczonego ciągłą walką o swoje ideały, ciężko chorego, bez realnej władzy i dawny, ukazany w licznych retrospektywnych...
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