Summary
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: On Love and Other Demons
A little girl dies. Hair is still growing. Two hundred years later, a copper mane more than twenty meters long unravels from under the ruined church and tells the story of passions in tropical regions where paper pigeons fly with love messages. In the novel On Love and Other Demons, the Colombian Nobel laureate García Márquez once again masterfully reaches for poetic images that, however, speak of the everyday life of people who are neither good nor bad in themselves, but, as always and everywhere, are above all victims of mutual misunderstanding and their own delusion. García Márquez's endemic theme of man's afterthought, of awareness that always comes too late, of the fatal fate of mental sluggishness, is treated in this novel with the magnificent art of reducing all kinds of relationships between people to small details and a few constant motifs. of this so-called fragrant prose which, in addition, can be read as a subtle irony of wisdom.
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