THE GENERAL IN HIS LABYRINTH
First UK edition of the Nobel Prize-winning Colombian novelist's fictionalized account of Simón Bolívar's last months.
Near fine in very good plus jacket.
Price: $50.00
THE GENERAL IN HIS LABYRINTH
"I go to seek a great perhaps"
"Had Bolivar not existed," Atwood writes, "Mr. Garcia Marquez would have had to invent him." In some respects, he did: the events of Bolívar's final days are unrecorded in official histories, and the author's recreation of that time incorporates both critique and invention, resulting in what is less a traditional historical novel than what Alvarez Borland calls a historiographic metafiction. "Seldom has there been a more fitting match between author and subject. Mr. Garcia Marquez wades into his flamboyant, often improbable and ultimately tragic material with enormous gusto, heaping detail upon sensuous detail, alternating grace with horror, perfume with the stench of corruption, the elegant language of public ceremony with the vulgarity of private moments, the rationalistic clarity of Bolivar's thought with the malarial intensity of his emotions, but tracing always the main compulsion that drives his protagonist: the longing for an independent and unified South America" (Atwood). A beautiful copy of this ambitious portrait of the Liberator of South America.
Read more: Atwood, "A Slave to His Own Liberation," The New York Times; Alvarez Borland, "The Task of the Historian in El General en su Laberinto."
The Object
First printing. London: Jonathan Cape, (1991). 8'' x 5.25''. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped (13.99 net) color pictorial jacket. Light green endpapers. 286 pages. Jacket with a couple of laminate creases. Book with tiny spot of soil to top edge of text block. Else crisp and tight.
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