Dedication and signature of the author. The autumn of the patriarch, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Barcelona, Plaza & Janés 1975, First Edition, original, Cover by Joan Minguell, rustic, 271 pages, soft cover.

The novel is considered a fable about the loneliness of power, which takes place in a fictitious country on the shores of the Caribbean Sea ruled by an old dictator who recreates the prototype of the Latin American dictatorships of the 20th century.

In El otoño del patriarca, and with a very singular style, García Márquez elaborates long paragraphs with few consecutive or separate points, in which he manages to intertwine different narrative points of view; a kind of multiple monologue in which various voices intervene without identifying themselves. This is perhaps his most thoughtful novel. It is considered a long prose poem, and the work that best represents the mythical contemporary tyrant. Its pages reverberate with the magical realism that Márquez has masterfully shaped in much of his work.