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Synopsis
Garcia Marquez writes a multifaceted, experimentally structured novel about a brutal but seemingly indestructible tyrant in a small Caribbean country--a study in power and its corruptions.
| Details | | Series: | Perennial Classics |
| Size | | Length: | 261 pages | | Height: | 8.3 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 8.3 oz |
Industry Reviews
"The book, as is to be expected from Garcia Marquez, is mystical, surrealistic, Rabelaisian in its excesses, its distortions and its exotic language....The narration is largely within the General's mind, but Garcia Marquez also enters other minds with brief intensity, often speaks in the collective voice of all people in the blasted nation; and so, through relentless immersion of the reader in these exquisitely detailed perspectives, he illuminates the monster internally and externally and delivers him whole....A reader grows somewhat weary at times over the excesses, the repetition and predictability of certain sections....But Garcia Marquez is as exorbitant as Melville and Dostoyevsky. He believes not only that excess is good for you, but that it is essential....How else, his novel implicitly asks, could the story of interminable dictatorship be told?"
New York Times Book Review - William Kennedy (10/31/1976)
"[M]ajestic....[S]uperb....[A] stunning portrait of the archetype, the pathological fascist tyrant."
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