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 novel, a poem about a mythical tyrant, "Autumn of the Patriarch." 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 and who he really is – a man or a myth come to life, a ruler of fate or a pathetic puppet in the hands of inexorable Fate. He is completely alone in his huge palace, where the real and the unreal coexist in the most bizarre way. He wants death and is afraid of it at the same time. And is there death for an embodied legend? Sometimes it seems to him that he will become happy only after he dies, and the endless time of eternity will finally stop.…