As we proceeded with the discussion,I tried to reason with him but he came up with an invincible ambiguity which left me more perplexed than defeated. While I've given both One Hundred Years of Solitude and Of love and other demons 4 stars, I have to admit I liked this book much more than the former. The rooms still in use were cool in any weather because of their thick masonry walls and many years of enclosure, and even more because of the December breezes that came whistling through the cracks.

He then tells the story of twelve year old Sierva Maria, the daughter of a Marquis in the mid 1700’s, at a port town along Colombia’s Caribbean. She had a slender nose, a rounded skull, slanted eyes, all her teeth, and the equivocal bearing of a Roman gladiator. The vicar and the girl will be seduced by a demon more powerful than faith and reason, which makes them maintain a love affair hidden from everyone, which culminates in a tragic outcome. they had just hung the carcass of a large, sinister dog so that everyone would know it had died of rabies. While Murakami tries to dissect the universal human condition with so much empathy, does Marquez only seek to tell licentious tales?Frightened by her strange nature, her mother had hung a cowbell around the girl's wrist so she would not lose track of her in the shadows of the house. The exorcist priest in the Convent, Caytano Delauro, falls in love with the girl, but the girl finally dies due to all the psychological and physical abuse, subjected to, in the convent, by the nuns and others, during exorcism! But, really, it wasn’t the story that this was about, it was the over the top, brilliant, invocative writing. In spite of that, Maria and Cayetano were seen every night secretly in the convent and they fell madly in love wrapped in an indescribable ecstasy.

In my state of perpetual distraction I looked at the eclipse with both my eyes without using the smoked glass and ended up nearly burning my retinas in the process. The vessel lay anchored outside the bay, for everyone feared an outbreak of some African plague, until it was verified that the cause of death was food poisoning. Del amor y otros demonios trata sobre Sierva María de Todos los Ángeles, una niña de 12 años hija del marqués de Casalduero que el día se su cumpleaños la muerde un perro que al parecer tiene rabia, además se ve envuelta en las garras del cristianismo debido a su crianza, ya que creció rodeada de esclavos y aprendió su lengua y costumbres. I was impressed by his Latin speaking skills and he showed me the forbidden book I was deprived of in my younger days-'the four volumes of Amadis of Gaul'. This book is translated by Edith Grossman, widely recognized as the preeminent Spanish to English translator of our time.

A rabid dog attacks her and several other people, all who contract rabies, some who die and others who will go mad. Los personajes secundarios son un complemento excelente, aportan lo necesario a la historia y el autor les da el protagonismo que merecen. La historia me pareció excelente, triste, ya que Sierva María fue una de esas personas que nació en una época equivocada, donde no coincidir con la religión cristiana era lo peor para una persona.

I feel like I am suspended in space while reading his novels, in some world where standards and morality and interpretation don't really matter all that much. Unsettling and indelible, Of Love and Other Demons is an evocative, majestic tale of the most universal experiences known to woman and man. He wore a Bedouin djellaba in the house, and a Toledan biretta that increased his forlorn appearance. Pero además de los elementos del realismo en cuestión hay en esta novela una historia de amor, otra de poder, una tercera de fe (por nombrar algunas) y todas ellas entrelazadas por los personajes que las viven.He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). She treated the bite herself with lemon and sulfur, and washed the bloodstain from the girl's petticoats, and no one gave a thought to anything but the festivities for her twelfth birthday. Al inicio del libro el autor nos cuenta su inspiración para escribirlo, pero no pude encontrar información si lo que nos cuenta es verídico o no, es algo muy curioso, si lo leen sabrán de qué les hablo. La vi hace más de una década y la califiqué 4 estrellas en IMDB, así que supongo que eso explica porque no conservo ningún recuerdo. Set in the 18th century, 12-year-old Sierva María is bitten by a dog and people believe her to be posessed by a demon.

You can always count on good old Gabo, the almighty father of magical realism, to tell you a profoundly bittersweet tragic story that will perpetually endure within your memory for years and years to come, if not forever. He had no room in his heart for anything but Sierva María, and even so it was not large enough to hold her. Dominga de Adviento became a Catholic without renouncing her Yoruban beliefs, and she practiced both religions at the same time, and at random. Earlier that morning, Bernarda Cabrera, the girl's mother and the untitled spouse of the Marquis de Casalduero, had taken a dramatic purge: seven grains of antimony in a glass of sugared rosewater. Don't make any assumptions about human nature because this author may well present you with thought provoking surprises that are nevertheless entirely believable.Sierva Maria, the protagonist adolescent, is raised by her father, Don Ygnacio de Alfaro y Duenas, and her Indian mother, Bernarda de Cabrera, who rejects Sierva, at an early age. Luego todo se empieza a esclarecer en el segundo capítulo y, a partir de ahí, el relato se disfruta mucho más. Un cane cenerognolo con una stella sulla fronte irruppe nei budelli del mercato la prima domenica di dicembre, travolse rivendite di fritture, scompigliò bancarelle di indios e chioschi della lotteria, e passando morse quattro persone che si trovavano sul suo percorso. Siempre podés contar con el buen Gabo, el padre todopoderoso del realismo mágico, para contarte una historia profundamente agridulce y trágica que perdurará perpetuamente en tu memoria por años y años por venir, si no es que para siempre.