One Hundred Years of Solitude

in a few hours. The same
people who invented the story
that he had sold the war for a
room with walls made of gold
bricks defined the attempt at
suicide as an act of honor and
proclaimed him a martyr.
Then, when he rejected the
Order of Merit awarded him
by the president of the
republic, even his most bitter
enemies filed through the
room asking him to withdraw
recognition of the armistice