Elizabeth Otero Íñigo
Los últimos meses de vida del general Simón Bolívar encierran el desafío de recorrer un viaje singular. La defensa del legado histórico que teme abandonar a su propia suerte (el ideal bolivariano) converge con su autodefensa y compite con una progresiva urgencia: atender a su entorno más próximo, a su tuberculosis y a sus hombres. El simbolismo grotesco de García Márquez logra abrir un sinfín de vasos conductores entre ambas dimensiones, pública y privada. Esos conductos reflejan un espacio tiempo laberíntico y salvador, construido con la riqueza de una simbología fértil: la de la duda y la paradoja.
General Simón Bolívar is confronted with the challenge of unraveling a labyrinth in the course of a singular journey, the last of his life. The defense of the historical legacy he fears abandoning to its own fate (the Bolivarian ideal and so himself) competes with a growing urgency: to attend to his tuberculosis and to his people. García Márquez's grotesque symbolism manages to open communicating vessels between both dimensions, public and private. These conduits reflect a labyrinthine and salvific space-time, constructed with the richness of a fertile symbolism: that of doubt and paradox.