Before to publish this story Gabriel Гарсиа Маркес rewrote her dozen of one times and had will : on the capacity and force she does not have to itself equal in all латиноамериканской prose.Her with a plot canvas is unintricate outwardly - power was just replaced in a латиноамериканской country once again, next capital corruptioners once again make the state - and the hero of a long ago flying civil war, aged a colonel is in retirement, drags semibeggarly existence in a little provincial small town.But his history, history of little man alone defending the dignity, becomes history of overcoming of loneliness, tyranny and absurdity, reigning in the world.