The autumn of the patriarch.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Colombian novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 and one of the great masters of universal literature. Gabriel García Márquez was the fundamental figure of the so-called Boom of Spanish-American literature.

The autumn of the patriarch.

During the weekend the buzzards went down the balconies of the presidential house, shattered the wire mesh of the windows and peeled the stagnant time inside, and at dawn on Monday the city woke up from its lethargy of centuries with a warm and tender breeze of the great dead and rotting greatness. Only then did we dare to enter without ramming the eaten walls of fortified stone, as the most determined ones wanted, or unhinged with oxen the main entrance, as others proposed, because it was enough for someone to push them to give the gates in their hinges armored vehicles that in the heroic times of the house had resisted the Lombards of William Dampier.