Also, it’s never a bad idea to read from a popular author with extremely good ratings and a long literary trajectory. I decided to read this book because Garcia Marquez has always had a worldwide influence and his novels never get old they are always relevant and entertaining to read. I found it incredible how Garcia Marquez added to the novel by being present in the story for the discovery of the girl’s grave with extremely long hair, as he said in the foreword. I have read two other books by this author and I have always admired his ability to create and describe the environment of each novel- in this case, cruel and violent. This book is a little different from his other novels. The characters, as always, are described very well and something that I can see from the novel is that the author doesn’t label them as good or bad the reader is the one that draws their conclusions. Although at first it seems like an average plot, he surprises the reader with his handling of moral conflicts, like adultery and domestic violence, and transforms it into themes of romance. You need to know that this is a love story – that’s the main thing in the novel. I also have to recognize how the author inserts the reader into a completely fantastic world which was created by his dreams and imagination. I have to admit that while reading the novel, the feeling of anguish over the events in it was quite prevalent. As he passes more time with her, Delaura starts to feel something happening to him: love,“the most terrible demon of all.” Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent where she will be exorcised by Father Cayetano Delaura.
It tells the story of Sierva Maria, the child of a decaying noble family, that, on her twelfth birthday, is bitten by a rabid dog. “Of Love and Other Demons” (1994) is set in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, at the end of the colonial era.
Winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature, Garcia Marquez is best known for his long novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” but also for the great magic that he transmits in his shorter novels. I feared not being able to understand his use of literary figures, but after reading “Of Love and Other Demons”, this feeling disappeared and I realized that the author’s style makes reading easier, in one way or another. Whenever I heard of the name Gabriel Garcia Marquez, I always imagined an old man who wrote novels with unreal plots, different literary figures, and exceedingly descriptive paragraphs. SeptemThe cover of Garcia Marquez’s “Of Love and Other Demons” in Spanish
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