Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
(79.1) : 189-193
Notes:
In his review Townley states that, "His long awaited memoir, Living to Tell the Tale, the first in a planned autobiographical trilogy, is a richly imagined volume, brimming with lush description and historical immediacy. And if the author has, over the course of his seventy-five magical years, succumbed to those ineluctable lapses in memory, we're certainly none the wiser. And it wouldn't matter anyway: as García Márquez writes in the book's epigraph, "Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it."" Townley also states that, "unlike many contemporary autobiographies, this one does not indulge in postmodern fripperies. Instead, García Márquez offers a "traditional" memoir: one recounted through the first person in the past tense, in a voice both warm and conversational."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 31, 2005
Published:
New Delhi, India : Living Media India
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Books; 77
Notes:
In this review of Gabriel García Márqez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores S. Parasannarajan states that "The lovers in "Memories of My Melancholy Whores" too are placed in the Marquezian enigma: she speaks only one sentence in the book; he had reinvented her in the delirium of desire...The novel itself is like a stray sentence of burning beauty from a master."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 20, 2005
Published:
Portland, OR : The Sunday Oregonian
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Sunday Features; O20
Notes:
In her review Sarah Cypher states that "readers familiar with the eccentric ornamentation in García Márquez's other fiction will not find it here. But because the author is a master of his genre, magic and portent nevertheless glitter through the novel's plain weave, infusing images with the weight of symbols in an allegory. Which, thankfully, they are not. The novel is nimble and brief, and it uses the transformational power of love to rise above moralism."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
December 24, 2004
Published:
London, UK : Economist Newspaper Ltd
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
373(8404) : 85
Notes:
This article is a review of Gabriel García Márquez's 'Memories of My Melancholy Whores.' The article states "Absurd? Yes, and so brief that the reader feels short-changed. Even so, the book is beautifully executed, and it had a sort of moral. Great loves often force people to confront unpleasant truths about themselves, but since the great love in this case is not available for comment, the rebirth is entirely the old man's work. A re-examination is always possible, the author seems to say: all one needs is the trigger."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 22, 2005
Published:
London, UK : Times Newspapers Limited
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Books; 16
Notes:
In reviewing Gabriel García Máquez's novel Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Ruth Scurr states that the book "depicts a respected journalist, breaking the rules of a lifetime to fall madly, anarchically, transgressively in love with a 14-year-old girl on the eve of his 90th birthday."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 23, 2005
Published:
London, UK : Times Newspapers Limited
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Culture; 53
Notes:
In this review of Gabriel García Márquez's novel Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Andrew Holgate states that "those anxious about the 78-year-old Colombian Nobel Laureate's continued vigour as a fiction writer will not have their anxieties allayed by this new novel. In size, style and subject matter, this is a work suffused with a sense of exhaustion."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 9, 2005
Published:
Salon.com
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
In this article Allen Barra reviews Memories of My Melancholy Whores and also discusses the controversy around the book's plot, stating, "The relationship between the old man and the pubescent girl is giving some critics conniption fits. For instance, Adam Kirsch in the New York Sun: "That Mr. García Márquez expects the reader to salute an ancient man's victory over a child rather than see it as pathetic or monstrous, is the latest measure of his fiction's heroic contempt for reality."" He then goes on to state that "it seems a little late in the game to sic the p.c. police on the creator of Colonel Aureliano Buendia, who, in "One Hundred Years of Solitude," published in 1967, sired 17 sons by 17 different women. And why, one wonders, are so many critics upset? Because the old man pays for his time with the girl? Perhaps because they want the strange relationship to be consummated?"
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 30, 2005
Published:
Hartford, CT : The Hartford Courant
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Arts; G3
Notes:
In discussing the unusual topic of the book Leblanc states that "some readers will be distressed by the sexual mores of this story, and they may not be able to see it primarily as a tale of love and aging. Worse, they may not see that García ultimately celebrates love, which can conquer solitude, instead of sex, which cannot."