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Gabriel Garcia Marquez's late masterpiece, OF LOVE AND OTHER DEMONS, is set in an 18th-century South American port city, a place rife with disease, slavery, the terror of the Spanish inquisitions, a quotidian belief in the supernatural--in short, a place where Garcia Marquez's lush magical realism works not merely as a stylistic flourish, but as the perfect means of conveying the texture of human existence. Once again, his novel's subject is an unorthodox love: this time between a 12-year old girl accused of demonic possession, and the priest assigned to exorcise her.
| Size | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 5.8 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 6.4 oz |
Industry Reviews
"...[G]rotesque, terrible, glinting and gloomy. The world is the familiar Garcia Marquez world, a mixture of phantasmagoria and a realism whose truths seem as incredible and strange as the moments of demonic magic. The tale--spare and swift in the telling--has all the ineluctable, irrational fatality of 'Chronicle of a Death Foretold' (1982), though the love story, also grim and driven, has none of the comic and inconsequential gentleness of 'Love in the Time of Cholera' (1988)."
New York Times Book Review - A. S. Byatt (05/28/1995)
"...there are many glimmering moments. Historical details are woven superbly into the text, and most of the time the author's eye is as capable and intelligent as ever. Oddly, the supernatural fancies that are his trademark often feel unnecessary here, perhaps because his imitators have already turned them into cliches. As it happens those magical strokes are not what make Marquez great, but rather his uncanny linguistic prowess, with its emphatic and revelatory wisdom."
Boston Review - Michael Greenberg
"This little novella confirms, if confirmation were needed, that Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a giant whose place alongside Thomas Mann, T. S. Eliot, Beckett, Neruda, and Steinbeck is both deserved and assured."
Literary Review - Tristan Garel-Jones (07/19/1995)
"A novel by Marquez is generally a rich confection, and this one is no exception. The 'magical' elements, whether real or not, are all there... the language is sometimes close to self parody...but it works. Like all the best historical novels, this tale (set in 18th century Central America) reflects aspects of the past which resonate in our own times."
Spectator - Tony Gould (07/22/1995)
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