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Gabriėlʹ Garsia Markes - velichaĭshiĭ pisatelʹ KhKh veka, laureat Nobelevskoĭ premii, avtor vsemirno izvestnykh romanov 'Sto let odinochestva', 'Li͡ubovʹ vo vremi͡a chumy' i 'Osenʹ patriarkha'.'Mne vsegda khotelosʹ napisatʹ knigu ob absoli͡utnoĭ vlasti', - tak avtor opredelil glavnui͡u temu svoego proizvedenii͡a. Diktator nenazvannoĭ latinoamerikanskoĭ strany nakhoditsi͡a u vlasti stolʹko vremeni, chto uzhe ne pomnit, kak k neĭ prishel. On - uzhe i chelovek, i ozhivshiĭ mif, i kuklovod, i marionetka v rukakh Roka. On sovershenno odinok v svoem ogromnom dvort͡se, gde realʹnoe i nerealʹnoe sosedstvui͡ut samym prichudlivym obrazom.On khochet i boitsi͡a smerti. No… estʹ li smertʹ dli͡a voploshchenii͡a legendy? Vozmozhno, schastliv vlastitelʹ stanet lishʹ kogda umret i poĭmet, chto dli͡a nego 'besschetnoe vremi͡a vechnosti nakonet͡s zakonchilosʹ'?

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,' – this 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 her. 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 unreal coexist in the most bizarre way.He wants and fears death. But... is there death for the embodiment of the legend? Perhaps the ruler will be happy only when he dies and realizes that for him 'the countless time of eternity is finally over'?