Viewed on 24 January, 2008.||"The Autumn of the Patriarch, the second of Gabriel García Márquez's three masterworks, to this day remains something of a middle child: taken for granted, overlooked, misunderstood. One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) is his best known novel, his most admired, most imitated and most honored. Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) is his most beloved, one of the great love stories of world literature. But The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975) is widely believed to be difficult, inaccessible and even unpleasant."