Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the greatest writer of the twentieth century, Nobel Prize winner, author of the world–famous novels "One Hundred Years of Solitude", "Love during the Plague" and "Autumn of the Patriarch". "I've always wanted to write a book about absolute power," is how the author defined the main theme of his work. The dictator of an unnamed Latin American country has been in power for so long that he no longer remembers how he came to it. He is already a man, a myth come to life, a puppeteer, and a puppet in the hands of Fate. He is completely alone in his huge palace, where the real and the unreal coexist in the most bizarre way. He wants and fears death. But... is there death for the embodiment of a legend?Perhaps the ruler will become happy only when he dies and realizes that for him "the endless time of eternity is finally over."