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Of Love and Other Demons

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Casi de una manera similar a “Crónica de una muerte anunciada”, cada uno de los personajes tiene su propia historia y así, nos vamos enterando de lo que le sucede al marqués de Casalduero, Ygnacio Alfaro y Dueñas, padre de Sierva María, o de lo que viven otros personajes como Bernarda Cabrera, su esposa, los avatares del sacerdote Cayetano Delaura, que muere de amor por Sierva Maria, los oscuros pasajes que leemos del obispo don Toribio Cáceres, la ponzña y perfidia de una de las villanas de la novela, me refiero a la abadesa del convento de Santa Clara, Josefa Miranda y de otros personajes secundarios como la negra Dominga de Adviento y una monja presa en el convento, Martina Laborde. I hardly remember anything about the movie (2009). I watched it more than a decade ago and rated it 4 stars on IMDB, so I guess that explains why it doesn’t ring a bell. It’s obviously pretty forgettable, and I’m not subjecting myself to watch it again. One time was enough I think! Algunos pasajes de este libro son realmente maravillosos y es en ellos en donde el realismo mágico explota con mil colores, como en este caso: A Delaura, en cambio, lo único que le llamó la atención fue el alboroto de los gallos. «No son sino seis pero cantan como ciento», dijo la abadesa. «Además, un cerdo habló y una cabra parió trillizos». Y agregó con ahínco: «Todo anda así desde que su obispo nos hizo el favor de mandarnos este regalo emponzoñado». Igual alarma le causaba el jardín florecido con tanto ímpetu que parecía contra natura. A medida que lo atravesaban le hacía notar a Delaura que había flores de tamaños y colores irreales, y algunas de olores insoportables."

The truth is I am not really sure why I have come,'said Delaura.'Unless that child has been imposed on me by the Holy pirit to test the strength of my faith.' El obispo encargó a el padre Cayetano Delaura, que se hiciera cargo de los exorcismos de la niña, pero terminó obsesionado con ella y el obispo le retiró el cargo y lo mandó a cuidar leprosos. A pesar de eso, Sierva María y Cayetano se veían todas las noches a escondidas en el convento y se enamoraron locamente envueltos en un éxtasis indescriptible.

La vida no les dio tiempo. Un 9 de noviembre estaban tocando a dúo bajo los naranjos, porque el aire era puro y el cielo alto y sin nubes, cuando un relámpago los cegó, un estampido sísmico los sacó de quicio, y doña Olalla cayó fulminada por la centella. La ciudad sobrecogida interpretó la tragedia como una deflagración de la cólera divina por una culpa inconfesable. El marqués ordenó funerales de reina, en los cuales se mostró por primera vez con los tafetanes negros y la color macilenta que había de llevar hasta siempre. Al regreso del cementerio lo sorprendió una nevada de palomitas de papel sobre los naranjos del huerto. Atrapó una al azar, la deshizo, y leyó: Ese rayo era mío.” Maybe I missed the deeper meaning of the story because I got so impatient with the long-windedness and near overwhelming number of characters thrown into the mix (which was rather difficult to keep straight). Or maybe I've just become shallow in my old age and need a little more gratuitous action in my novels to hold my attention. In any case, I found myself constantly distracted by the never-ending introduction of the newest Marquis, Bishop, Dominga or person-from-some-Holy-Office. I felt like I needed a character guidebook to accompany the reading of this novel because after a while, I couldn't remember who was who and what their relevance to the story was supposed to be. García Márquez nos cuenta una tragedia, que a su vez sirve de crítica hacia las religiones, es muy lamentable saber que hubo una época donde lo más común era asociar otro tipo de expresiones al demonio, una época donde ser diferente era autocondenarse a sí mismo. Afortunadamente ese tipo de opresión se ha ido debilitando, sin embargo, es aún más lamentable saber qué falta mucho para que desaparezca por completo, pero ya es un avance. Estoy convencido que leí este libro hace más de una década y, volviéndolo a repasar hoy, encuentro de nuevo las razones por las que lo disfruté tanto entonces, y ahora. 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. Recomendable.

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. He removed the patch and tossed it in the thrash bin.'The only thing wrong with that eye is that it sees more than it ought too,' he said. Por otro lado, tenemos al padre Cayetano, que en su momento por una desgracia de Sierva María llegan a coincidir, y en ella encuentra su punto de quiebre, y le surgen las dudas si en realidad creer o no. But finally with my second Marquez book, I think I've succeeded in my endeavors to decode his writing, to a certain extent.As always I,Father Delaura lost focus and stumbled on my way to the Bishop's room where I was invited to witness an eclipse. In the cloistered silence I found the bishop in a pensive mood holding a smoked glass in his hand for looking at the sun. I wanted to tell him I have fallen for the possessed girl I was supposed to exorcise. I wanted to shriek at him, implore him, beg at his feet to condone my misgivings on faith in spite of being an eminent priest and a renowned Father and a dutiful librarian. But I couldn't come to terms with my own imbecility and indecision. The bishop regards, rabies to be a sign of demonic possession, and convinces the family to send her to a Convent for exorcism. 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! Sierva is of noble birth, but her family is on the cusp of ruin. With a mother who wallows in obsessions of her own and a father who can barely take care of himself, the girl is subjected to all manner of voodoo-esque cures. But does she even have rabies? That is the million-dollar question left to the studious priest, Father Cayetano Delaura.

The sun has always been the sigil of a pristine presence, a God,an indomitable focus of energy. The Bishop could see the eclipse through the smoked glass and said that wherever he looked he could still the see the eclipse. His faith in God was undoubted and his arguments supporting his faith were insurmountable. He always came up with the most cleverest and undeterred of arguments favouring his position. He had faith, he had focus, he closed one of his eyes and through the smoked glass could relish the sight of the Eclipse. He requested me to look at the eclipse but with focus and using only one of eyes as the eclipse will go away in a few hours. 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. I covered my afflicted eye with a dark patch. Y fue además a partir de “Cien años de soledad” que su fama se transformó en algo eterno. Hoy en día decir García Márquez es lo mismo que nombrar a cualquier escritor laureado sea del país que sea. Se ganó su bien merecido lugar entre los mejores. The prose in which Marquez writes is admittedly gorgeous, but that wasn't enough to save this piece from the depths of the infernal flames in which I felt like I was burning during the entire read. Cayetano y Sierva María siguieron viéndose a escondidas hasta que las monjas lo descubrieron y enviaron a Cayetano a cuidar leprosos el resto de su vida. 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.

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá, and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He is the author of several novels and collections of stories, including Eyes of a Blue Dog (1947), Leaf Storm (1955), No One Writes to the Colonel (1958), In Evil Hour (1962), Big Mama's Funeral (1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Innocent Erendira and Other Stories (1972), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), Strange Pilgrims (1992), Of Love and Other Demons (1994) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2005). Many of his books are published by Penguin. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Gabriel Garcia Marquez died in 2014. Which is why I was surprised that you came,' said the physician.'I am no more than hunted prey in the game preserve of the Holy Office.' Ella le preguntó por esos días si era verdad, como decían las canciones, que el amor lo podía todo.

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