内容简介
General Simon Bolivar, “the Liberator” of five South American
countries, takes a last melancholy journey down the Magdalena
River, revisiting cities along its shores, and reliving the
triumphs, passions, and betrayals of his life. Infinitely charming,
prodigiously successful in love, war and politics, he still dances
with such enthusiasm and skill that his witnesses cannot believe he
is ill. Aflame with memories of the power that he commanded and the
dream of continental unity that eluded him, he is a moving exemplar
of how much can be won—and lost—in a life.
作者简介
García Márquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1928. He
attended the University of Bogotá and went on to become a reporter
for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador. He later served
as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and
New York. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, he is
the author of several novels and collections, including No One
Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories, The Autumn of the
Patriarch, Innocent Erendira and Other Stories,
Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The General in His
Labyrinth, Strange Pilgrims, and Love and Other
Demons.