The Autumn of the Patriarch
Vultures get into the presidential palace and the crowd finds a body nobody can certify, since the general died once before and went on ruling afterward. Sentences run for pages and change speaker mid-clause, piling up a reign of somewhere between one and two hundred years in which he sells the sea, serves a rival to his officers at dinner and cannot read the message his mother left. His contribution to the dictator novel.
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