Generalul în labirintul său

Simón Bolívar faces illness, exile and death in this novel. It draws on history. He heads down the Magdalena River toward Cartagena. He plans to leave from there. On the way, he recalls his life in South America. Gabriel García Márquez shows both the public and private man.

Public anger has forced Bolívar to end his rule as dictator. His hope for a united America has come to nothing. The people he freed now reject him. Yet he had hopes for their future. His thoughts turn to his past aims and grief. His wife died when he was only twenty. That loss helped shape his years in South America. He never married again. He saw love as a source of strength. As death nears, his thoughts and pain form a maze around him.

The book suits readers who like novels about history, power and loss. Márquez shows Bolívar's frailty, not just his public deeds. The author comes from Colombia. His life began in Aracataca in 1927. He is known for magical realism. He won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He said he took up writing by chance. It then became his greatest pleasure.

This edition forms part of the Rao Clasic series. Mihaela Dumitrescu translated it into Romanian from the Spanish text. Its Spanish title is El general en su laberinto.