The Autumn of the Patriarch

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• distances · May 17, 2020 · Recommends

  Very tangentially, my favourite long sentence book is The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez. It was very hard to put down, not because it would've been especially gripping, but because I'd like to pause at end of a chapter, or at the very least at end of a sentence,…

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• spaceman_2020 · Jun 13, 2023 · Recommends

  If you like that kind of writing, you would enjoy “Autumn of the Patriarch”. Probably Marquez’s best prose work.

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• noduerme · Nov 23, 2025 · Recommends

  The lower case "I" stands out very much in reading it as a self-annihilating affectation. However, the sentences are well formed. If you really want to lose your breath, try "The Autumn of the Patriarch" by Marquez. You really won't be able to put it down.

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• simonsarris · Apr 17, 2014 · Recommends

  …sometimes intentionally, but I find it enormously satisfying to read and follow along with his brain. Like slowly drinking a maple syrup of words. One of the best examples is the first 15 or so[1] pages of Autumn of the Patriarch[2], where the narrator winds this thread of what has happened slowly, using sentences that span pages, until you realize a shift from what has happened to a sort of what is about to happen. Then a fist…

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• fiatjaf · Feb 27, 2014 · Mentions

  This reminds me of Gabriel García Marquez's novel _The Autumn of the Patriarch_, which has no paragraphs and infinitely long sentences.

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• GeoAtreides · Dec 22, 2023 · Mentions

  Other difficult books, in a somewhat increasing order of difficulty: 0) The autumn of the patriarch, by Marquez 1) Gormenghast series, by Mervyn Peake 2) The third period of Henry James (The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors, and The Golden Bowl). 3) The Death of Virgil, by Hermann Broch I do suggest…

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• convolvatron · Apr 7, 2024 · Mentions

  in Marquez's Autumn of the Patriarch,he repeatedly mentions that the sea had been sold to the Americans. and in the background, we can see how much poorer everyone there is for it. before, they had easy wealth, and now just squabbling over…

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• bhrgunatha · Feb 28, 2014 · Mentions

  That's a great analogy - hwo did you find reading that book? I love his other books, but Autumn of the Patriarch took a LOT of mental effort.

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• fiatjaf · Mar 1, 2014 · Critical

  I've only read Chronicle of a Death Foretold and Memories of My Melancholy Whores from him, I started The Autumn of the Patriarch, but I couldn't bear it and gave up the book early.

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• vo2maxer · Aug 10, 2020 · Mentions

  …we had missed, both tried and failed. In my case, I’ve read War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Brother Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Magic Mountain, Buddenbrooks, Before the Storm (Fontane), The Autumn of the Patriarch, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Vanity Fair, and Middlemarch, among others. I have failed at In Search of Lost Time (only finished first volume), The Divine Comedy, The Iliad, The Odyssey, Ulysses (Joyce),…

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