Téma samozvaného diktátora je typická, možno priam obsedantná téma v latinskoamerickej literatúre a objavuje sa v dielach mnohých spisovateľov. Kým niektorí autori si pri jej stvárnení volia presný dobový rámec, Márquez ju spracoval po svojom - využil paródiu a satiru, motívy a symboliku smrti barokového obdobia.
THE EXTRAORDINARY LOST NOVEL FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA AND ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDESitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happily married and has no reason to escape the world she has made with her husband and children.
One of the world's most famous novels, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, blends the natural with the supernatural in one of the most magical reading experiences on earth.