The general in his maze "Marquis, translation by Saleh Almani"

García Márquez has always declared that the fall of the patriarch is a generous luxury he allowed himself when he finally decided to write what he wants. With skill and competence, Márquez takes us once again to the world of Latin America with its reality and magic, that world which he elevated to the level of legend. Where we find in the person of the dictator a mixture of all Latin American tyrants, revealing to us how absolute power summarizes all that is great and miserable in man, the lowest and highest in human nature. It is a poem in the solitude of power, organized by the writer word by word over many years, where the days of the dictator's last moments flow, and the story repeats itself in a similar way each time, different each time, filled with astonishing narration and successive events that reach such a level of intensity that the reader gasps while following it.