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General In His Labyrinth, The (original 1989; edition 1990)

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Recounts the turbulent life of the great Simon Bolivar.
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Title:General In His Labyrinth, The
Authors:Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Info:Knopf (1990), Edition: 1st American ed, Hardcover
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The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez (1989)

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Esta novela constituye un acercamiento mítico, histórico y humano a la figura de Simón Bolívar. El pulso magistral de García Márquez refiere hasta en sus detalles mínimos la inmensa aventura independentista que, impulsada por Bolívar, cambió el destino de América. Aclamado por el pueblo como Libertador, blanco de conjuras políticas y militares, héroe romántico y hasta libertino, idealista íntegro y abandonado que contempla las ruinas de su sueño de unidad de los pueblos americanos, Bolívar emprende el que será su viaje foral... Al reconstruir una época crucial de la historia de América, el genial autor colombiano consigue una novela donde la tragedia de lo real y la magia de lo maravilloso alcanzan sus cotas más altas.
  Camargos_livros | Aug 30, 2023 |
I loved 'One Hundred Years of Solitude.' I loved 'Love in the Time of Cholera.' And then I read 'The General in His Labyrinth,' about the final days in the South American revolutionary Simon Bolivar's life. It was all right. But nothing special. ( )
  soylentgreen23 | Aug 3, 2019 |
Esta novela constituye un acercamiento mítico, histórico y humano a la figura de Simón Bolívar. El pulso magistral de García Márquez refiere hasta en sus detalles mínimos la inmensa aventura independentista que, impulsada por Bolívar, cambió el destino de América. Aclamado por el pueblo como Libertador, blanco de conjuras políticas y militares, héroe romántico y hasta libertino, idealista íntegro y abandonado que contempla las ruinas de su sueño de unidad de los pueblos americanos, Bolívar emprende el que será su viaje final... Al reconstruir una época crucial de la historia de América, el genial autor colombiano consigue una novela donde la tragedia de lo real y la magia de lo maravilloso alcanzan sus cotas más altas
  Haijavivi | Jun 6, 2019 |
I still quote this one, having no other authority on Bolivar. ( )
  jonfaith | Feb 22, 2019 |
Gabo non è colpa tua, perdonami ti preeeeego!
ma io non ci posso fare niente:
quando si parla di robe storiche o politiche
il cervello mi va automaticamente in stand-by.
scusa scusa scusa!
ti voglio bene lo stesso. ( )
  cry6379 | Sep 17, 2017 |
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Had Bolivar not existed, Mr. Garcia Marquez would have had to invent him. Seldom has there been a more fitting match between author and subject. Mr. Garcia Marquez wades into his flamboyant, often improbable and ultimately tragic material with enormous gusto, heaping detail upon sensuous detail, alternating grace with horror, perfume with the stench of corruption, the elegant language of public ceremony with the vulgarity of private moments, the rationalistic clarity of Bolivar's thought with the malarial intensity of his emotions, but tracing always the main compulsion that drives his protagonist: the longing for an independent and unified South America.
 

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It seems that the devil controls the business of my life.
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