Of Love and Other Demons

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Sierva Maria is the only child of Don Ygnacio de Alfaro y Duenas, the second Marquis de Casalduero and Lord of Darien. Gabriel García Márquez es uno de esos escritores bendecidos por el arte de narrar historias como los dioses. 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. He is well known for his unique literary style known as magical realism, in which he describes reality through magical events and elements.

Los personajes están muy bien construidos, creo que lo mejor es como el autor en su momento va explicando por qué actuaban como lo hacían, qué los llevó a estar donde estaban, además sin extenderse demasiado, un desarrollo perfecto. Sierva María nunca supo por qué Cayetano nunca volvió y fue exorcizada por el obispo, quien le cortó su larga cabellera y la mantuvo encerrada porque los indicios de posesión demoníaca no hicieron sino aumentar. If Garcia Marquez explored the metaphor or love as a disease in "Love in the Time of Cholera", then here he centers his story around the metaphor of love as madness and demonic possession.Written with masterly economy, brimming with colorful episodes and vividly sketched characters: a haunting, cautionary tale that ranks among the author’s best. This continued under his heir for as long as the illicit traffic in slaves and flour, directed in secret by Bernarda from the Mahates sugar plantation, had lasted.

Because by that time Marquez would have cast his magic spell on you and whisked you away to a neverland where social conventions and the established notions of morality are immaterial. Dominga de Adviento, a formidable black woman who ruled the house with an iron fist until the night before her death, was the link between these two worlds.She could dance with more grace and fire than the Africans, sing in voices different from her own in the various languages of Africa, agitate the birds and animals when she imitated their voices. 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. La niña enfermó y le daban muchas fiebres por lo que se pensó que estaba poseída por un demonio y el obispo recomendó llevarla al convento de Santa Clara para que fuera exorcizada.

Independientemente de que algunos puristas consideren que otros escritores se le anticiparon en la invención del género (el caso de Juan Rulfo es el más emblemático), es en él donde más podemos experimentar esa maravilla que nos aporta el realismo mágico. She almost never left her bedroom, and when she did she was nude or wearing a silk tunic with nothing underneath, which made her seem more naked than if she wore nothing at all.Only she could drive the slaves out with a broom when she discovered them in the vacant rooms committing calamitous acts of sodomy or fornicating with bartered women. El relato me ha parecido notable, un ejemplo impecable de la gran literatura del autor, pero entre tanto acierto de la novela hay una afirmación que no puedo dejar de comentar: “La incredulidad persiste más que la fe, porque se sustenta en los sentidos. I've wanted a hardcover copy of this book for a long time but although this has been described as a hardcover it is not, so some disappointment.

Her soul was healthy and at peace, she said, because what she did not find in one faith was there in the other.I’m positive I’ve read this book more than a decade ago and, re-skimming it today, I find again the reasons I enjoyed it so much then, and now. To overlay that with a doomed romance between a handsome priest and a prepubescent girl is heady stuff, then further layered with themes of the demonic and the insane, and yet it simply failed to enliven my senses. the religious authorities, decide that she may be mad, rabid, possessed by the demon of hydrophobia, and they embark on a series of barbarous cures. I've got nothing left to say except that you should read this book and see for yourself how beautiful and sad it is.