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El general en su laberinto - Gabriel García Márquez
El general en su laberinto
Format: paperback
ISBN: 9688161209
Publisher: Departamento del Distrito Federal
Pages no: 287
Edition language: Spanish
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The Lexical Funk!
The Lexical Funk! rated it
5.0 A Love Letter to Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “The General and His Labyrinth.”
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...
Moje książki
Moje książki rated it
„Gdy obsypiesz człowieka dobrodziejstwami ­– od tej chwili pierwszą jego myślą będzie już tylko: jak je zachować”. – Monteskiusz Mottem z Monteskiusza można dopisać niemal każdemu bohaterowi, nie tylko literackiemu. Ileż to razy zdarzyło nam się pomóc ko...
Julian Meynell's Books
Julian Meynell's Books rated it
4.0 Review
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...
jwilley44
jwilley44 rated it
3.0 The General in His Labyrinth
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.
Marlena23
Marlena23 rated it
3.5 Generał w labiryncie
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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