Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
August 18, 2005
Published:
Champaign, IL : Illini Media
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Beitzel states about Love in the Time of Cholera, "Garcia manages to create a very compelling love story in which nothing happens between the protagonists for fifty years. Yet it is not a slow read, nor boring in any way."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 6, 2005
Published:
Baltimore, MD : The Baltimore Sun Company
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Ideas; 5F
Notes:
Redding states about the book that "Fans of García Márquez's previous works will find Memories unusually slim, but the brevity is deceptive - all of García Márquez's usual depth resonates here, as does his sense of storytelling. No magical realism occurs, as much as the narrator might like it to: His cat cannot guide him to the missing Delgadina, just as he cannot catch sight of her riding the bicycle he gave her to her factory job."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
December 4, 2005
Published:
Richmond, VA : Richmond Newsppers
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Books & Authors; K-3
Notes:
In this article Judi Goldenberg discuses the novellas of both Gabriel García Márquez and John Barth. She states about Memories of My Melancholy Whores that "the most memorable feature of this novella is not its occasionally seedy plot but rather its lucid, clean-flowing, unsentimental yet achingly intimate prose, drawing the reader in despite any misgivings."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 14, 2005
Published:
New York, NY : Associated Press
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
In this review Goldstein states "A work by García Márquez, who is 78, is always worth waiting for. Always. Few have written about the essence of life, love, and death nearly as well as he. (And kudos to the translator, too, Edith Grossman.) The best known of his previous works, "Love in the Time of Cholera" and "100 Years of Solitude," are grand works in any language. "Memories" is not in that class, but a smaller gem."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 27, 2005
Published:
San Antonio, TX : San Antonio Express-News
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Books; 6J
Notes:
In his review Gregg Barrios states, "Since this is the first fiction in a decade form Márquez, one can see why his publisher was eager to release it separately from new fiction Gabo (as he is known to his fans worldwide) is working in. Sorry to report this isn't one of his better works, nor is it his "Death in Venice" or his "The Old Man and the Sea.""
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
December 1, 2005
Published:
Washington, DC : National Public Radio
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
Accessed on 31 January, 2008. Alan Cheuse states, "What he [Gabriel García Márquez} gives us this time around is a memorable love story in a minor, minor key... he falls madly for the girl and finds a new life at an age, as he himself puts it, "when most mortals have already died.""
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 2, 2005
Published:
Philedelphia, PA : Knight Ridder/ Tribune News Service
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
In this review of Memories of My Melancholy Whores Carlin Romano notes many similarities between Gabriel García Márquez's life and the life of the narrator in his book. She also suggests that the reader "think of "Memories," then, as the lustrously written story of a shipwrecked sailer, as "magic prurience" protected from severe criticism by the astounding prior achievement of its sainted but unsaintly author."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 23, 2005
Published:
Chicago, IL : Chicago Tribune
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
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Notes:
"Even the language, though it cannot avoid being rich under [Gabriel García Márquez]'s fingers, is direct. Though Spanish usually becomes shorter when rendered in English, the excellent [Edith Grossman] translation and the original Spanish version of 'Memories' are of roughly the same word count. García Márquez cunningly alludes to this economy when he quotes in the text from a Mexican poem that commends to writers given to verbosity 'torcerle el cuello al cisne,' which means 'to twist the neck of the swan.'"
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 15, 2005
Published:
London, UK : Guardian Newspapers Limited
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Guardian Review Pages; 15
Notes:
Ian Watson compares García Márquez's novel Memoria de mis putas tristes with Yasunari Kawabata's House of the Sleeping Beauties, stating that it has "Exactly the same theme of old man and comatose drugged girl(s)."