For an excellent study of old age, with considerable attention given to sexuality, see Simone de Beauvoir's The Coming of Age (1972).
In One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970), García Marquez's best known and highly acclaimed novel, the author employs the technique of "magical realism," which blends the real with the fantastic in a comic masterpiece that chronicles SIX generations of a family in the town of Macondo, a microcosm of Colombia.
The Autumn of the Patriarch is Garcia Marquez's 1975 novel about the evils of despotism as embodied in a solitary dictator.
One of his collections of short stones, No One Writes to the Colonel and Other.....
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