Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 19, 2005
Published:
New York, NY : The New York Sun
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Front Page; 1
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In his review of Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Adam Kirsch discusses the controversy around the novel's subject matter. In his article he states that "Mr. García Márquez manages to deflect moral or even psychological judgment on the acts of his characters because the "magic" of his fiction annuls the "realism" that is supposed to go along with it."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
March 2005
Published:
Madrid, Spain : Ediciones Cultura Hispánica
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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657 : 71
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"En 'Memoria de mis putas tristes' se revela, con el ingenio de un quino barroco, el genio de la novela, su apuesta por el escándalo de vivir: entre los prostíbulos de la realidad, la fábula de la imaginación redimida."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
July-Sept 2004
Published:
Academia Nacional de la Historia (Venezuela)
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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87(347) : p. 185-192
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De-Sola writes, "En Vivir para contarla.(Bogotá: Norma, 2002. 584 p.) Gabriel García Marquez nos ofrece el primer tomo de sus memories. En este caso van desde su nacimiento hasta el momento en que, tras la publicación de su primera novela, La hojarasca, en 1955, hizo su primer viaje a Europa. Estos recuerdos importan mucho para sus lectores. Y más allá del estilo sobrio y preciso en que están redactadas ya que ellas nos permiten comprender, a partir de las mismas palabras de García Márquez, cuál fue su vida ... "
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
August 22, 2005
Published:
New York, NY : Reed Business Information
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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252(33) : 34
Notes:
The author states about Memoirs of My Melancholy Whores that "the narrator's wit and charm, however, are not enough to counterbalance the monotony of his aimlessness. Though enough grace notes are struck to produce echoes of eloquence, this flatness keeps the memories as melancholy as the women themselves."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 20, 2005
Published:
Edinburgh, Scotland : The Scotsman Publications
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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7
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After discussing the novel, Andrew Crumey concludes that "like Goethe's novella The Man Of Fifty, this book is about growing older and feeling limper. Marquez's comments on the subject, however, are disappointingly trite. "Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel". Even Peter Stringfellow has managed to say it more eloquently than that."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 29, 2005
Published:
Edinburgh, Scotland : The Scotsman Publications
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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9
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In this review of Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores Allan Massie states that "The novella is really a meditation on old age, that time of life when reality itself can appear, as the narrator remarks, "fantastic"...The old may feel as intensely as they ever did in their youth. But what they feel seems in them incredible, absurd, or disgusting to those who have not yet arrived at the summit from which the read leads precipitously downhill to the grave."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
June 1, 2005
Published:
New York, NY : Kirkus Reviews
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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73(11) : S8
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This article reviews "Memories of My Melancholy Whores." The author quotes Knopf's publicity director, Nicholas Latimer, and states, "Latimer acknowledges that he was initially 'disappointed' the book wasn't longer--but says that it doesn’t read like a short book."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
July 15, 2005
Published:
New York, NY : VNU Business Media, Inc
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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73(14) : Fiction: 754
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This review of Memories of My Melancholy Whores states that "There is no indication--unless it is the word "melancholy" in the title--that García Márquez means his tale to be the parody of macho idiocy it appears to be. His hero ends revitalized and radiantly optimistic, while readers are left wondering, "Can he be serious?" What can't be dismissed, however, is García Márquez's gift for the casually adept insight."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
April 8, 2005
Published:
London, UK : Express Newspapers
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Features; 53
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Ben Fogle lists Gabriel García Márquez's book One Hundred Years of Solitude as one of his six best books. Fogle states that the book is "a complicated tale, like a patchwork, with a zillion characters. It's set in a Colombian town, and the focal point is a Latin American family."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 30, 2005
Published:
Columbus, OH : The Columbus Dispatch
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
The Arts; Bookends; 07F
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In his review of Gabriel García Márquez's novel Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Bill Eichenberger discusses the narrator and states that "one needn't like a first-person narrator for a novel to be successful, but one must at least find that narrator interesting. The reclusive narrator of Gabriel García Márquez's first work of fiction in 10 years...is indeed interesting."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 2005
Published:
New York, NY : Harper & Brothers
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
311(1866) : 89-90
Notes:
John Leonard reviews "Memories of My Melancholy Whores" and states, "To be reductive and glib about Gabriel García Márquez's ravishing new novella, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, one could say that Death in Venice meets Lolita. Or that Ivan Ilyich hums along with J. Alfred Prufrock."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
September 4, 2005
Published:
Lancaster, PA : Lancaster Newspapers, Inc
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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5
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In this Review of Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores it is stated that the book is about "a 90-year-old man who decides to give himself a night of love."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 21, 2005
Published:
London, UK : Associated Newspapers
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
64
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In this review of Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores Eithne Farry states that the novel is "an elegiac fairytale that celebrates old age and the possibilities of rejuvenation."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
December 6, 2005
Published:
Australia : Nationwide News Pty
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
News; 6
Notes:
Glen Morrison states, "Gabriel Gracía Márquez plumbs the nature of love and sex in his first literary offering in more than ten years, Memories of My Melancholy Whores."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
December 4, 2005
Published:
Atlanta, GA : The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Arts & Books 5K
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In this review John Freeman states, "The coin of a prostitute's transaction is not love but debasement. In Gabriel García Márquez's new novella, "Memories of My Melancholy Whores," the Nobel Laureate uses this truth to skewer an aging newspaper columnist who believes, on the eve of his 90th birthday, that he has found true love in a bordello."