Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
March 2005
Published:
Wellesley, MA : KLIATT
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
39(2) : 34
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In this review of García Márquez's "Living to Tell the Tale" Pucci states that "this book provides a unique opportunity to follow the development of one of the most important writers of the 20th century."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 15, 2005
Published:
New York, NY : VV Publishing Corporation
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Books; 41
Notes:
In this review Stosuy reviews Memories of My Melancholy Whores along with John Barth's Where 3 Roads Meet: Novellas, stating, "John Barth and Gabriel García Márquez's newest don't rank with their best, though the septuagenarian grandmasters probably aren't sweating it. In Where 3 Roads Meet and Memories of My Melancholy Whores, it's their self-possession that's so intriguing."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
November 22, 2005
Published:
New York, NY : The New York Times Company
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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Section E; Column 1; The Arts/Cultural Dest;
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In reviewing the book, this article by Michiko Kakutani criticizes Memoirs of My Melancholy Whores, stating that "like the entries in his 1993 collection "Strange Pilgrims," this tale demonstrates that the shorter form of the story does not lend itself to Mr. García Márquez's talents: his penchant for huge, looping, elliptical narratives that move back and forth in time is cramped in this format, as is his desire to map the panoramic vistas of an individual's entire life. The fertile inventiveness that animated his masterpiece "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is decidedly muted in these pages, and the reverence for the mundane realities of ordinary life, showcased in more recent works , seems attenuated as well. As a result, "Memories of My Melancholy Whores" feels like brittle little fable composed on automatic pilot."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
October 14, 2005
Published:
London, UK : Guardian Newspapers
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
36
Notes:
John Crace's review of Memories of My Melancholy Whores simply recounts the novel by presenting the most important quotes. It offers no critique or description.
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:
October 22, 2005
Published:
London, UK : Times Newspapers Limited
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Books; 16
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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
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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."