Memoria de mis putas tristes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Memoria de mis putas tristes
Book Review: Increible, fantastica, especial
Summary: 5 Stars
Fui a una venta de libros en Arlington a comprar el Diccionario de Dudas de la Lengua Espanola y mientras uno de los vendedores lo buscaba, me puse a recorrer los pasillos, viendo los libros en los estantes, y cual fue mi sorpresa al encontrar esta novela, que de inmediato compre y empece a leer.
Es una historia triste, divertida, llena de colorido de la vida de los hombres en America Latina, escrita con ese estilo tan especial que solo lo tiene Garcia Marquez. Por supuesto la lei en unas horas, la goce muchisimo, la volvi a leer una semana despues y la goce mucho mas.
Yo tengo todas las novelas de Garcia Marquez, me encanta su estilo, sus tramas, sus personajes.
Book Review: Un libro lleno de poesia y realidad
Summary: 5 Stars
Muy buen libro que te lleva de una manera suave y poetica en la vida de este viejo que busca una aventura y conoce el amor a su manera, muy facil de digerir inclusive para quienes como yo que estamos empezando en la lecturaBook Review: La "memoria" a los noventa...
Summary: 4 Stars
El nonagenario escritor de una columna en el diario local, El Diario de la Paz, que por cierto y por el entorno dibujado es la zona de Barranquilla en Colombia, en donde joven el autor hizo sus primeros escarceos en el periodismo, de nombre Mustio Collado, como le llamaban sus alumnos, más bien que asi le pusieron de apodo, además crítico musical y maestro de gramática, sintiéndose ya cerca de su vejez física, y que cada día se aproximaba mas a la muerte, renace en juventud, a los deseos de demostrarse a si mismo, que todavía estaba allí, que todavía podía. Para conseguir lo que el llama " una noche de amor loco, con una joven adolescente virgen" , contacta a una antigua amiga suya, madrota profesional que regenteaba putas en los congales de moda de su época, Rosa Cabarcas, para que le consiga entre sus muchachas, la que el deseaba...
Novela llena de frases y reflexiones interesantes y brillantes algunas de ellas, como aquella que dice:
" Al fin y al cabo, el problema a tu edad es servir o no servir, pero ya me dijiste que lo tienes resuelto. Le salí al paso: El sexo es el consuelo que uno tiene cuando no le alcanza el amor."
Hay otra frase, cerca del final de la obra, que también me llama la atención, cuando Rosa Cabarcas a, cuenta de la duda que le embargaba al Sr. Collado, respecto de los sentimientos de quien el, llamaba Delgadina, aquella muchachita ya hecha mujer, respecto del trato que se le iba a ofrecer,a pregunta de Collado:
"-¿Crees que ella estará de acuerdo?
Y ella responde:
"-Ay mi sabio triste, está bien que estés viejo, pero no pendejo -dijo Rosa Cabarcas muerta de risa-."
Buena frase, en verdad...no?..en fin, excelente y divertida novela, de la que si se animan a leerla, coincidirán conmigo.
Book Review: Delicate
Summary: 5 Stars
The book starts with an inflammatory proposition - a nonagenarian wants, as a birthday gift to himself, a virgin. Then we see Gabo's genius - how many authors could pull out a story out of this premise and write a beautiful and delicate story of love? Would you normally even buy a book with such a premise? I did not see this as an attempt to call the public's attention only. This premise is so dangerous and complicated, I believe that Gabo's pushes his limits as a storyteller and the result is successful and unforgettable. I intend to reread this book as the anxiety about knowing the end made me speed up, and then I want to savor the book word by word.
The protagonist writes love letters in his weekly column in the local newspaper. One of them, printed in his own writing, is so remarkable that people copy the page and give them out and there is a boom of romanticism in the town. At the age of 90, a teenager recognizes him as "the guy who writes love letters".
Some people thought that Mark Twain's books were racist because they contained the n-word. It is just as narrow-minded and misguided to get incensed by the idea of a 90yo and a 14yo together. This is the story of a man who feels ready to die of love; it is the story of the tragedy of poverty; it is about how people can live double lives and do not be happy for that. Their relationship should not offend anyone, it is indeed a much safer read then the imflammatory proposition makes it out to be.
Book Review: Ninety years of solitude
Summary: 5 Stars
It was worth waiting for. After a decade of reclusion, Gabriel García Márquez is back with a new novel. Actually, "Memories of my Melancholy Whores" is so short that it is a novella. The size recalls back to his early works, like "Leaf storm", but we can notice a writer who is more mature, more confident.
His prose, as usual, is singular. Nobody is able to play with words, their construction and meaning, like Gabo. His short narrative is fast and touching. The nameless narrator has just turned 90, and he has never found love. As he remembers he never spent a night with a woman he loved -- all of them were paid. And this time won't be different. He calls his friend and whorehouse owner to say he wants to spend a night with a virgin.
After a short search everything is arranged. But that is the very moment when the narrator will find his long lost humanity. Years of meeting strange woman, writing chronicles for a newspaper and the absence of friends and family has turned him into a de-humanized being. Now at 90 it is high time to find the lost time.
But it is not easy to enter back in the world of humans, as García Márquez exploits in his "Memories of my melancholy Whores". However much this novella may echo Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita", it is Charles Perrault's "Sleeping Beauty" that is the recurrent image in the book. When people are adduced to the land of dreams, little they know what happens in the outside world.
"Memories of my melancholy whores" doesn't have so many characters as most of García Márquez's works, like "A Hundred Years of Solitude", and therefore easier to follow and read. And although it may not as genial as his masterpiece, it is still great prose, with well-developed characters and situations. As most of his books, this one seems to take place in a land of dreams, which makes it more special since one of the main characters spends most of time sleeping. But, it is one who is awaken that seems to dream most of the time.