The Autumn of the Patriarch

GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ, Gabriel.

The Autumn of the Patriarch.

FIRST U.S. EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.

8vo. Translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. Blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt; in the publisher's pictorial dust jacket, the rear panel with a photograph of the author by Rodrigo García Barcha. Copyright page states “First U.S. Edition,” the number line ending in 5 as issued for the first printing. Designed by Sidney Feinberg. Originally published in Spain as El Otoño del Patriarca, 1975; portions first appeared in The New Yorker. Foxing to the text-block edges; a Friends of the Library price label to the rear jacket panel; light wear to the jacket extremities.

García Márquez's novel of an unnamed Caribbean dictator, so old that nobody living remembers his coming to power and nobody can say for certain whether he is alive or dead. The book unfolds in long unbroken sentences that pass between voices without warning, the narration circling the corpse discovered in the presidential palace and working backward through the regime it ended. Published nine years after One Hundred Years of Solitude; García Márquez received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.

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