The General in his LabyrinthBy: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Series: Everymans Library Contemporary Classics With the style and eloquent language that earned him the Nobel prize for literature, Marquez weaves a stunning story of glory and despair. Both real history and Marquez' imagination let us enter the world of Simon Bolivar, Liberator of South America, in all his humanity good and evil. Bolivar drove the Spanish out of South America, dealt with treachery from his own compatriots.