Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Literary, Fiction
ISBN: 9780380696413
Publisher: Avon Books
Published: 1984-08-15T08:31:24+00:00

decision of no more, God damn it, if it had to be let it be soon, he decided, and it was like an explosive order that he had not finished putting together when two of his aides burst into his office with the terrible news that Leticia Nazareno and the child had been torn to pieces and eaten by the stray dogs at the public market, they ate them

alive general sir, but they weren't the same usual street dogs but hunting animals with frightened yellow eyes and the smooth skin of a shark that someone had set upon the blue foxes, sixty dogs all alike who nobody knew when

leaped out from among the vegetable stands and fell upon Leticia Nazareno and the child without giving us time

to shoot for fear of killing them who looked as if they were drowning along with the dogs in a hellish whirlpool, we could only see the instantaneous signs of some ephemeral hands reaching out to us while the rest of the body was disappearing into pieces, we saw fleeting and ungraspable expressions that sometimes were of terror, other

times of pity, other times of jubilation until they finally sank into the whirlpool of the scramble and all that was left floating was Leticia Nazareno's hat with felt violets facing the impassive horror of the totemic vegetable women spattered with hot blood who prayed my God, this couldn't be possible unless the general wanted it, or at least unless he didn't know about it, to the eternal dishonor of the presidential guard who without firing a shot could only rescue the bare bones scattered among the bloody vegetables, nothing else general sir, the only thing we found were these medals that belonged to the boy, the saber without its tassels, Leticia Nazareno's cordovan shoes which no one knows why appeared floating in the bay about a league away from the market, the necklace

of colored glass, the chain-mail purse which we deliver here to your own hand general sir, along with these three keys, the wedding ring of blackened gold and these fifty cents in ten-cent pieces which they put on the desk for him to count, and nothing else general sir, it was all that was left of them. It wouldn't have mattered to him if more had been left or less, if he had known then that the years he would need to erase down to the last vestige the memory of that inevitable Wednesday were not many or very difficult, he wept with rage, he woke up

shouting with rage tormented by the barking of the dogs who spent the night chained in the courtyard while he

decided what shall we do with them general sir, wondering in confusion whether killing the dogs might not be

killing Leticia Nazareno and the child who were inside them all over again, he ordered them to tear down the iron cupola of the vegetable market and build in its place a garden with magnolias and quails and a marble

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