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O General no Seu Labirinto
by Gabriel García Márquez
In this book, Gabriel Garcia Marquez gives us his vision of an emblematic figure of modern South American history: Simon Bolivar, "El Libertador." Herald and hero of independence, a vigorous defender of Latin American unity, Simon Bolivar is a legend whose Nobel Prize in literature proposes, somewhat irreverently, to tell the story of the last days the tone of "grandeur and decadence."
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Under the pen of Garcia Marquez, Bolivar becomes a somewhat pathetic and endearing older man. This reading is also an awareness of our relationship to history and "great men," all of whom have known something without knowing who they were. Beyond the historical narrative, this reflects the author subtly invites us and is central to appreciating the novel.
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Under the pen of Garcia Marquez, Bolivar becomes a somewhat pathetic and endearing older man. This reading is also an awareness of our relationship to history and "great men," all of whom have known something without knowing who they were. Beyond the historical narrative, this reflects the author subtly invites us and is central to appreciating the novel.