At a crucial point in this work the 46-year old title figure takes in a stray, mangy dog and decides to name it for himself. In flashbacks we learn about his wife, who died after 8 months of marriage, as well as 35 other serious affairs including the
At a crucial point in this work the 46-year old title figure takes in a stray, mangy dog and decides to name it for himself. In flashbacks we learn about his wife, who died after 8 months of marriage, as well as 35 other serious affairs including the cigar-smoking Amazonian Manuela Sanchez. The hero is thwarted again and again by Francisco de Paula Santander and much of the novel's action is relayed to the valet Jose Palacios. Dramatizing the fevered last days during the hero's journey from Bogota to the sea, where he wants to sail for Europe, FTP, identify this work by Gabriel Garcia Marquez that dramatizes the physical and psychological decomposition of Simon Bolivar.
At a crucial point in this work the 46-year old title figure takes in a stray, mangy dog and decides to name it for himself.