Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 4, 2005
Published:
Seattle, WA : The Seattle Times Company
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Books; J10
Notes:
In this article Michael Upchurch reviews Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores and compares it to John Cheever's Oh What a Paradise it Seems, stating that Memories of My Melancholy Whores "too, is a lyrical-raunchy portrait of an old man taking what may be his last taste of the world."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 6, 2005
Published:
Pittsburgh, PA : P.G. Publishing
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Book Review; C-4
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In this review of Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores Bob Hoover states that "the author of the masterpiece "One Hundred Years of Solitude" isn't offering us anything as entertaining or challenging this time, only a bauble, a sliver of his genius."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 20, 2004
Published:
Miami, FL : Miami Herald Publishing
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
5A
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"En cambio, en la Ciudad de Mexico, donde Random House Mandadori y [Diana] hicieron un tiraje inicial de 100,000 libros, hubo librerías que se ingeniaron formas de recibir desde hace dos días la novela donde Gabo recrea una fascinación literaria que comparte con otros grandes escritores ante un argumento tan suscinto como inquietante: la incursión que hace un anciano en la frontera entre el sueño, el eros, el amor, y la muerte, escoltado por 'el arrullo de la respiración apacible' de una virgen."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 27, 2005
Published:
Washington, DC : News World Communications
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Books; On Books; B06
Notes:
In this critique and review of the book Carol Herman states, "Readers had every reason to hope that Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez's latest novel, "Memories of My Melancholy Whores," his first work of fiction in 10 years, would be something to behold. But there is a wrinkle, and it rests in the limitations of the book's own central and disturbing act of "beholding.""
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 30, 2005
Published:
Cleveland, OH : Plain Dealer Publishing
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Books; H5
Notes:
In this review of Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Felipe Nieves discusses the novel and also critiques Edith Grossman's translation of the text from Spanish to English.
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 2005
Published:
New York, NY : Esquire Publisher
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
144(5) : 56
Notes:
This article reviews Memories of My Melancholy Whores. The author states, "No doubt the work will be clucked at severely by reviewers of a tender age and gender--although perhaps not so severely as they peck at Messers Mailer and Roth and other old cocksmen who lack the protection of Third World cachet. But any actual sin would be committed only if they failed to see that Memories is an elegant, sturdy meditation on regret, isolation, decay, and the inevitable perversity of redemption."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 12, 2005
Published:
Vancouver, Canada : CanWest Interactive
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Books; F18
Notes:
Anderson critiques Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores and states that "the novel's narrative creeks with age, and its novella-length brevity suggests that García Márquez's stamina may be fading. Yet the author still manages to grace Melancholy Whores with passages of limber loveliness. "Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love," he writes."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
December 17, 2005
Published:
Ontario, Canada : Toronto Star Newspaper
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Books; D10
Notes:
In reviewing García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Tong states, "The premise sounds creepy, but García Márquez can find a liberating sense of wonder anywhere... Memories of My Melancholy Whores isn't about sex or love, anyway -- it's about the limits and freedoms of age, the "risks of being alive," as the narrator puts it."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
May 15, 2005
Published:
Tampa, FL : The Tribune Co.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Baylife; 8
Notes:
Walker reviews Chronicle of a Death Foretold, stating that "this slim volume might be the best entry into Márquez's work. It contains many of the elements that mark so much of his fiction - love, fate, familial ties, dreams, desperation, magic - as well as some of his tightest writing."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
July 24, 2005
Published:
Tampa, FL : The Tribune Co.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Baylife; 6
Notes:
Walker lists One Hundred Years of Solitude as a book everyone should read. He states that "reading Gabriel García Márquez is akin to sitting around a campfire, listening to a master storyteller, and his prose retains its magic even in translation from the Spanish."