Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
February 10, 2006
Published:
Madison, WI : The Daily Cardinal via U-Wire
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"Fortunately, García Márquez was nowhere near done with prose, returning to form with his new novel, "Memories of My Melancholy Whores." A compelling and concise piece of work, Márquez proves that even after 15 books he still has the skill and spirit to tell an unforgettable story." ""Melancholy Whores" is closer to Márquez's short stories than his novels in length -- only 115 pages -- but it is still a triumphant return to form. Márquez appears to get even better as the years go on. Hopefully, readers won't have to wait until Márquez himself turns 90 for his next book."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
January 6, 2006
Published:
Orange County, CA : OC Weekly, Inc
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Books; 26
Notes:
In the article Bonca states, "García Márquez is in his late 70's now, and his latest work, Memoirs of My Melancholy Whores, is a novella that, like the last few works by Issac Singer, feels at once modest and brazen, magisterial and bizarre, breaking no new ground but summing up a career's worth of imaginative creation in a little fable of head-shakingly absurd sweetness."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
January 7, 2006
Published:
Montreal, Canada : CanWest MediaWorks
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Weekend; Arts & Books; H7
Notes:
In reviewing Memories of My Melancholy Whores the author states, "The novel's narrative does creak 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 and pithy aphorisms."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
December 8, 2005
Published:
McLean, VA : Gannett Company
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Life 4D
Notes:
In this review Dierdre Donahue states, "Any writing from Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez is an event. The Colombian-born author wrote one of the great literary masterpieces of the past century, One Hundred Years of Solitude. Unfortunately, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, his first work of fiction in a decade, is pretty thin and a real letdown compared with his brilliant autobiography, Living to tell the Tale, published in 2003."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
May 21, 2005
Published:
London, UK : Associated Newspapers Ltd.
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Weekend; 22
Notes:
"Sue Macgregor, presenter of the Radio 4 series, A Good Read, tells York Membery about her favourite novels..." Love in The Time Of Cholera is one of them. She states that "the warm slow prose and the magic realism Márquez has made famous, matches the dreamy heat of the South American setting."
Secondary source, Reviews of Gabriel García Márquez's Books and Stories
Publication Date:
August 25, 2005
Published:
Australia : West Australian Newspapers Limited
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
Features; 16
Notes:
Review of Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. The review states that the book "transformed world literature when it was published in 1967.