Therefore, the story begins with his thrown away from presidency and begin his journey to his homeland, Venezuela.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez creates these two pieces in order to show new facets of his writings and imagination. These books bring alive the inner daemons of the author. Both books symbolize oppression, sadness, and death. In both cases there are many parallels between the two books. The author's goal in The General in His Labyrinth is recreate a sad historical event of a continent hero. On the other hand, in The Autumn of a Patriarch, he recreates a state of censure by a tyrant that many South American nations have suffered. It is clear that in the latter, he is not referring to any regime or tyrant in particular, but to the world population that are victims of ruthless regimes. In both cases the writer takes a personal and political approach to differ these writings from others. This makes the pieces unique; therefore, it forces the reader to take extreme .
Situation on their perspectives of these books. Both books have been failures commercially compare to his other books.
In The Autumn of The Patriarch, the protagonist is the dictator. The story begins with the unearthing of the dictator's dead body. The first chapter of the story evolves the dictator's first death, which reveals the secret about the dictator's double. His name is Patricio Argones, who for some time served as the second dictator in order to mislead the dictator's enemies. The second Patriarch was an identical as the first one. They had all kinds of similarities to an extent that all the women that they got pregnant had seven-month pregnancy, which made it impossible to differentiate even their sons from each other. The only difference was in the attitude of the second patriarch, who was a kinder and nicer to people than the original Patriarch. Therefore, as the second Patriarch is assassinated the original Patriarch and used this as a scam in order to recognize the traitors.
He grew up with his maternal grandparent - his grandfather was a pensioned colonel from the civil war at the beginning of the century. He went to a Jesuit college and began to read law, but his studies were soon broken off for his work as a journalist. ... El general en su laberinto. ... The Autumn of the Patriarch. ... The General in his Labyrinth (El general en su laberinto). ...
