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匕賰乇賶 毓丕賴乇丕鬲賷 丕賱丨夭丕賳賶
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Benim H眉z眉nl眉 Orospular谋m'谋n ba艧ki艧isi, ya艧am谋 boyunca hi莽bir kad谋nla paras谋n谋 枚demeden sevi艧memi艧 ya艧l谋 bir gazetecidir. Yaln谋zl谋臒谋n谋n 莽aresini g眉ndelik, s谋radan ili艧kilerde aram谋艧 bu 莽irkin ve 莽ekingen ihtiyar, 90. ya艧g眉n眉nde kendine hi莽 al谋艧谋lmam谋艧 bir arma臒an vermeye kalk谋艧谋r. Eskiden tan谋d谋臒谋 bir genelev patroni莽esini arar, el de臒memi艧 bir gen莽 k谋zla birlikte olmak istedi臒ini s枚yler. Patroni莽e, onun bu istedi臒ini yerine getirecek, ama ya艧l谋 adam her ziyaretinde 'uyuyan g眉zel' Delgadina'y谋 seyretmekle yetinmek zorunda kalacak, ya艧am谋n谋n g眉z眉nde kendisine b枚ylesi bir oyun oynayan yazg谋s谋na boyun e臒ecek; ne ki bu ayr谋ks谋 ili艧kiden o g眉ne de臒in hi莽 tatmad谋臒谋 bir a艧k do臒acakt谋r. Garc铆a M谩rquez, bu roman谋nda, ya艧l谋l谋臒谋n h眉zn眉n眉 ola臒and谋艧谋 bir a艧k谋n co艧kusuna d枚n眉艧t眉r眉yor. Belki de 枚l眉m眉 g眉zelle艧tirmek i莽in... Ustan谋n bu yeni roman谋 ya艧l谋l谋臒a, cinselli臒e, a艧ka ve 枚l眉me bir g眉zelleme.
Benim H眉z眉nl眉 Orospular谋m'谋n ba艧ki艧isi, ya艧am谋 boyunca hi莽bir kad谋nla paras谋n谋 枚demeden sevi艧memi艧 ya艧l谋 bir gazetecidir. Yaln谋zl谋臒谋n谋n 莽aresini g眉ndelik, s谋radan ili艧kilerde aram谋艧 bu 莽irkin ve 莽ekingen ihtiyar, 90. ya艧g眉n眉nde kendine hi莽 al谋艧谋lmam谋艧 bir arma臒an vermeye kalk谋艧谋r. Eskiden tan谋d谋臒谋 bir genelev patroni莽esini arar, el de臒memi艧 bir gen莽 k谋zla birlikte olmak istedi臒ini s枚yler. Patroni莽e, onun bu istedi臒ini yerine getirecek, ama ya艧l谋 adam her ziyaretinde 'uyuyan g眉zel' Delgadina'y谋 seyretmekle yetinmek zorunda kalacak, ya艧am谋n谋n g眉z眉nde kendisine b枚ylesi bir oyun oynayan yazg谋s谋na boyun e臒ecek; ne ki bu ayr谋ks谋 ili艧kiden o g眉ne de臒in hi莽 tatmad谋臒谋 bir a艧k do臒acakt谋r. Garc铆a M谩rquez, bu roman谋nda, ya艧l谋l谋臒谋n h眉zn眉n眉 ola臒and谋艧谋 bir a艧k谋n co艧kusuna d枚n眉艧t眉r眉yor. Belki de 枚l眉m眉 g眉zelle艧tirmek i莽in... Ustan谋n bu yeni roman谋 ya艧l谋l谋臒a, cinselli臒e, a艧ka ve 枚l眉me bir g眉zelleme.
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First published October 19, 2004
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Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez
888听books39.6k听followersGabriel Jos茅 de la Concordia Garc铆颅a M谩rquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garc铆颅a M谩rquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
He studied at the University of Bogot谩 and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style labeled as magical realism, which uses magical elements and events in order to explain real experiences. Some of his works are set in a fictional village called Macondo, and most of them express the theme of solitude.
Having previously written shorter fiction and screenplays, Garc铆a M谩rquez sequestered himself away in his Mexico City home for an extended period of time to complete his novel Cien a帽os de soledad, or One Hundred Years of Solitude, published in 1967. The author drew international acclaim for the work, which ultimately sold tens of millions of copies worldwide. Garc铆a M谩rquez is credited with helping introduce an array of readers to magical realism, a genre that combines more conventional storytelling forms with vivid, layers of fantasy.
Another one of his novels, El amor en los tiempos del c贸lera (1985), or Love in the Time of Cholera, drew a large global audience as well. The work was partially based on his parents' courtship and was adapted into a 2007 film starring Javier Bardem. Garc铆a M谩rquez wrote seven novels during his life, with additional titles that include El general en su laberinto (1989), or The General in His Labyrinth, and Del amor y otros demonios (1994), or Of Love and Other Demons.
(Arabic: 噩丕亘乇賷賷賱 噩丕乇爻賷丕 賲丕乇賰賷夭) (Hebrew: 讙讘专讬讗诇 讙讗专住讬讛 诪专拽住) (Ukrainian: 覑邪斜褉褨械谢褜 覑邪褉褋褨褟 袦邪褉泻械褋) (Belarussian: 袚邪斜褉褘械谢褜 袚邪褉褋褨褟 袦邪褉泻械褋) (Russian: 袚邪斜褉懈褝谢褜 袚邪褉褋懈褟 袦邪褉泻械褋)
He studied at the University of Bogot谩 and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a literary style labeled as magical realism, which uses magical elements and events in order to explain real experiences. Some of his works are set in a fictional village called Macondo, and most of them express the theme of solitude.
Having previously written shorter fiction and screenplays, Garc铆a M谩rquez sequestered himself away in his Mexico City home for an extended period of time to complete his novel Cien a帽os de soledad, or One Hundred Years of Solitude, published in 1967. The author drew international acclaim for the work, which ultimately sold tens of millions of copies worldwide. Garc铆a M谩rquez is credited with helping introduce an array of readers to magical realism, a genre that combines more conventional storytelling forms with vivid, layers of fantasy.
Another one of his novels, El amor en los tiempos del c贸lera (1985), or Love in the Time of Cholera, drew a large global audience as well. The work was partially based on his parents' courtship and was adapted into a 2007 film starring Javier Bardem. Garc铆a M谩rquez wrote seven novels during his life, with additional titles that include El general en su laberinto (1989), or The General in His Labyrinth, and Del amor y otros demonios (1994), or Of Love and Other Demons.
(Arabic: 噩丕亘乇賷賷賱 噩丕乇爻賷丕 賲丕乇賰賷夭) (Hebrew: 讙讘专讬讗诇 讙讗专住讬讛 诪专拽住) (Ukrainian: 覑邪斜褉褨械谢褜 覑邪褉褋褨褟 袦邪褉泻械褋) (Belarussian: 袚邪斜褉褘械谢褜 袚邪褉褋褨褟 袦邪褉泻械褋) (Russian: 袚邪斜褉懈褝谢褜 袚邪褉褋懈褟 袦邪褉泻械褋)
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June 21, 2019
To enjoy this book you have to enter the mind and world of this old, old man, living the last years of his life in poverty in the once-grand, decaying house of his youth. His career never rose above second-rate reporter, he never married and never even fell in love. His personal relationships with women were limited to the whores he paid for. A most unfulfilled life.
But then, for a present for his 90th birthday, he gives himself a 14 year-old virgin, a would-be whore. Exhausted from menial labour and drugged-up with valerian by the brothel madame, she sleeps every night they spend together, her sleeping and he sitting on a chair next to her bed. and for the first time in his life he falls in love. In love with the idea of his sleeping beauty.
This is a poetic, sensual book that many reviewers, unable to see beyond their own ideas of fitness, have condemned as tawdry, a paean to pedophilia and just plain sick. But it isn't. It's the last flowering of a rose; touched by frost it should have died but instead is more glorious, more beautiful because it is so unseasonal, a real surprise. What it says about the nature of men's love for young beauty is age-old: look good, be quiet and demure, and let him be the dominant one, is taken to an extreme here. It worked for Snow White, it worked for the Sleeping Beauty and it works for Delgadina too.
Love changes everything. Despite his 90 years, the old, old man walks with a spring in his step, his head held high and smiling to the world. He has an epiphany, 'sex is the consolation one has for not finding enough love' and writes about love in his weekly columns in the local newspaper. This brings him the fame, respect and friendship he had craved all his life. In his 91st year, at last, he has found fulfillment.
Ultimately, Gabriel Garcia Marquez says through this book: Never Give Up.
Read May 1, 2009
Update I've been reading other reviews and it seems that people think this book is about paedophilia, some Lolita book. Nothing could be further from the truth. The whores and loveless sex without dreams or commitment didn't bring the old man happiness. Now, not having sex but just sitting beside a sleeping girl and dreaming and falling in love with the dream, has brought about a sea change. Pure love and romantic daydreams have made him happy and this happiness has seeped into every aspect of his lire, until, despite his years he walks with a spring in his step and a smile on his face and this happiness makes him a hero to all who see him.
This is a brilliant book. It is the last book, the final jewel inset into the crown that is the literature of GGM. Do not hold back because of what you've heard. Do not misinterpret and see what isn't there. This book is the musings of a life without much happiness, not sex, and the girl is no more molested than was Snow White resting in her glass case with only her beauty on show.
I wrote this update purely because both on GR and in my shop people "have heard" about this book and so don't think they want to read it. December 4th, 2016
But then, for a present for his 90th birthday, he gives himself a 14 year-old virgin, a would-be whore. Exhausted from menial labour and drugged-up with valerian by the brothel madame, she sleeps every night they spend together, her sleeping and he sitting on a chair next to her bed. and for the first time in his life he falls in love. In love with the idea of his sleeping beauty.
This is a poetic, sensual book that many reviewers, unable to see beyond their own ideas of fitness, have condemned as tawdry, a paean to pedophilia and just plain sick. But it isn't. It's the last flowering of a rose; touched by frost it should have died but instead is more glorious, more beautiful because it is so unseasonal, a real surprise. What it says about the nature of men's love for young beauty is age-old: look good, be quiet and demure, and let him be the dominant one, is taken to an extreme here. It worked for Snow White, it worked for the Sleeping Beauty and it works for Delgadina too.
Love changes everything. Despite his 90 years, the old, old man walks with a spring in his step, his head held high and smiling to the world. He has an epiphany, 'sex is the consolation one has for not finding enough love' and writes about love in his weekly columns in the local newspaper. This brings him the fame, respect and friendship he had craved all his life. In his 91st year, at last, he has found fulfillment.
Ultimately, Gabriel Garcia Marquez says through this book: Never Give Up.
Read May 1, 2009
Update I've been reading other reviews and it seems that people think this book is about paedophilia, some Lolita book. Nothing could be further from the truth. The whores and loveless sex without dreams or commitment didn't bring the old man happiness. Now, not having sex but just sitting beside a sleeping girl and dreaming and falling in love with the dream, has brought about a sea change. Pure love and romantic daydreams have made him happy and this happiness has seeped into every aspect of his lire, until, despite his years he walks with a spring in his step and a smile on his face and this happiness makes him a hero to all who see him.
This is a brilliant book. It is the last book, the final jewel inset into the crown that is the literature of GGM. Do not hold back because of what you've heard. Do not misinterpret and see what isn't there. This book is the musings of a life without much happiness, not sex, and the girl is no more molested than was Snow White resting in her glass case with only her beauty on show.
I wrote this update purely because both on GR and in my shop people "have heard" about this book and so don't think they want to read it. December 4th, 2016
August 31, 2021
(B+) 77% | Good
Notes: The premise is interesting and the text is beautifully written, but the story's thin and the ending's a bit disappointing.
Notes: The premise is interesting and the text is beautifully written, but the story's thin and the ending's a bit disappointing.
September 25, 2021
Memoria de Mis Putas Tristes = Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Gabriel Garc铆颅a M谩rquez
Memories of My Melancholy Whores, is a novella by Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez. The book was originally published in Spanish in 2004, with an English translation by Edith Grossman published in October 2005.
An old journalist, who has just celebrated his 90th birthday, seeks sex with a young prostitute, who is selling her virginity to help her family. Instead of sex, he discovers love for the first time in his life.
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毓賳賵丕賳: 禺丕胤乇賴 丿賱亘乇讴丕賳 睾賲诏蹖賳 賲賳 貨 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴: 诏丕亘乇蹖賱 诏丕乇爻蹖丕 賲丕乇讴夭貨 賲鬲乇噩賲: 讴丕賵賴 賲蹖乇毓亘賾丕爻蹖貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 賳蹖賱賵賮乇貙 1386貨 丿乇 124氐貨 卮丕亘讴9644482522貨 賲賵囟賵毓 丿丕爻鬲丕賳賴丕蹖 賳賵蹖爻賳丿诏丕賳 讴賱賲亘蹖丕 - 爻丿賴 20賲
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Memories of My Melancholy Whores, is a novella by Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez. The book was originally published in Spanish in 2004, with an English translation by Edith Grossman published in October 2005.
An old journalist, who has just celebrated his 90th birthday, seeks sex with a young prostitute, who is selling her virginity to help her family. Instead of sex, he discovers love for the first time in his life.
毓賳賵丕賳賴丕蹖 趩丕倬 卮丿賴 丿乇 丕蹖乇丕賳: 芦禺丕胤乇賴 丿賱亘乇讴丕賳 睾賲诏蹖賳 賲賳禄貨 芦禺丕胤乇丕鬲 乇賵爻倬賷丕賳 爻賵丿丕夭丿賴鈥� 賲賳禄貨 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴: 诏丕亘乇蹖賱 诏丕乇爻蹖丕 賲丕乇讴夭貨 鬲丕乇禺 賳禺爻鬲蹖賳 禺賵丕賳卮 賴乇 丿賵 賳爻禺賴 蹖 亘乇诏乇丿丕賳 賮丕乇爻蹖 丿乇 乇賵夭賴丕蹖 爻丕賱 2007賲蹖賱丕丿蹖
毓賳賵丕賳: 禺丕胤乇賴 丿賱亘乇讴丕賳 睾賲诏蹖賳 賲賳 貨 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴: 诏丕亘乇蹖賱 诏丕乇爻蹖丕 賲丕乇讴夭貨 賲鬲乇噩賲: 讴丕賵賴 賲蹖乇毓亘賾丕爻蹖貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 賳蹖賱賵賮乇貙 1386貨 丿乇 124氐貨 卮丕亘讴9644482522貨 賲賵囟賵毓 丿丕爻鬲丕賳賴丕蹖 賳賵蹖爻賳丿诏丕賳 讴賱賲亘蹖丕 - 爻丿賴 20賲
毓賳賵丕賳: 禺丕胤乇丕鬲 乇賵爻倬賷丕賳 爻賵丿丕夭丿賴鈥� 賲賳 貨 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴: 诏丕亘乇蹖賱 诏丕乇爻蹖丕 賲丕乇讴夭貨 賲鬲乇噩賲: 丕賲賷乇丨爻賷賳 賮胤丕賳鬲貨 賲丨賲丿 丕賲丕賲蹖貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 丌賴賳诏 丿蹖诏乇貨 1383貨 丿乇128氐貨 卮丕亘讴 9648433127貨
乇賵夭賳丕賲賴 賳诏丕乇蹖 (丕賱亘鬲賴 讴賴 乇賵夭賳丕賲賴 賳诏丕乇貙 賵 蹖丕丿賲丕賳賴丕蹖卮貙 丕夭 丌賳 禺賵丿 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 蹖 乇賵丕賳卮丕丿 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘貙 賳蹖爻鬲貙 禺蹖丕賱 丕爻鬲 讴賴 亘賳诏丕卮鬲賴 丕賳丿貙 丕蹖卮丕賳 丿乇 爻丕賱1958賲蹖賱丕丿蹖貙 亘丕 禺丕賳賲 芦賲乇爻丿賴 亘丕乇趩丕禄 丕夭丿賵丕噩 讴乇丿賴 亘賵丿賳丿貙 賵 丿賵 賮乇夭賳丿 亘賴 賳丕賲賴丕蹖 芦乇賵丿乇蹖诏賵禄 賵 芦诏賵賳夭丕賱賵禄 丿丕乇賳丿貙 芦诏丕亘乇蹖賱 诏丕乇爻蹖丕 賲丕乇讴夭禄 乇賵夭 卮卮賲 賲丕賴 賲丕乇爻貙 爻丕賱 1927賲蹖賱丕丿蹖貙 丿乇 芦丌乇丕讴丕鬲丕讴丕蹖 讴賱賲亘蹖丕禄 亘賴 丿賳蹖丕 丌賲丿賳丿貙 賵 丿乇 乇賵夭 賴賮丿賴賲 賲丕賴 丌賵乇蹖賱 爻丕賱 2014賲蹖賱丕丿蹖 丿乇 爻賳 賴卮鬲丕丿 賵 賴賮鬲 爻丕賱诏蹖 丿乇 芦賲讴夭蹖讴賵 爻蹖鬲蹖禄 丿乇诏匕卮鬲賳丿)
乇賵夭賳丕賲賴 賳诏丕乇蹖 讴賴 賴賲賴 毓賲乇 乇丕 亘蹖 夭賳 賵 賮乇夭賳丿 賵 丿乇 鬲賳賴丕蹖蹖 亘诏匕乇丕賳丿賴貙 丿乇 賳賵丿 爻丕賱诏蹖 亘丕乇 丿蹖诏乇 毓卮賯 乇丕 鬲噩乇亘賴 賲蹖讴賳丿 賵 丿賱丿丕丿诏蹖 倬蹖乇丕賳賴 爻乇 夭賳丿诏蹖卮 乇丕 丿诏乇诏賵賳 賲蹖讴賳丿貙 鬲賱禺鬲乇蹖賳 毓匕丕亘賴丕 乇丕 鬲丕亘 賲蹖丌賵乇丿貙 鬲丕 亘賴 毓卮賯 賳丕亘 賵 倬丕讴 亘乇爻丿貨 诏夭蹖賳卮 丕夭 倬卮鬲 噩賱丿 讴鬲丕亘
鬲丕乇蹖禺 亘賴賳诏丕賲 乇爻丕賳蹖 16/07/1399賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 02/07/1400賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 丕. 卮乇亘蹖丕賳蹖
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June 5, 2007This is it everyone- The most depressing book I have read. Ever. Yes. This book. Not the ones about the holocaust, brutal wars, awful diseases... this book. About an old man who has only ever slept with whores. I don't know why it got to me like it did, but I would read a few pages and feel physically sick to my stomach. It's not the subject matter (it's interesting), it's not the writing (he's Marquez)... it's just this sense of awfulness. This awful awful life he's lead, and what he has never known. What his little, vulgar life consists of.
Maybe Marquez is just too on his game here. He's just too good at creating this sense of emptiness, and this wasteland of a life. That isn't really all /that/ tragic. It's just so unutterably sad, I can't describe it.
I don't know what to rate it. I never finished it. And I haven't been brave enough to pick it up again since.
Maybe Marquez is just too on his game here. He's just too good at creating this sense of emptiness, and this wasteland of a life. That isn't really all /that/ tragic. It's just so unutterably sad, I can't describe it.
I don't know what to rate it. I never finished it. And I haven't been brave enough to pick it up again since.
November 19, 2021
Memoria de Mis Putas Tristes = Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez
Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a novella by Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez. The book was originally published in Spanish in 2004.
An old journalist, who has just celebrated his 90th birthday, seeks sex with a young prostitute, who is selling her virginity to help her family. Instead of sex, he discovers love for the first time in his life.
毓賳賵丕賳賴丕蹖 趩丕倬 卮丿賴 丿乇 丕蹖乇丕賳: 芦禺丕胤乇賴 丿賱亘乇讴丕賳 睾賲诏蹖賳 賲賳禄貨 芦禺丕胤乇丕鬲 乇賵爻倬賷丕賳 爻賵丿丕夭丿賴鈥� 賲賳禄貨 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴: 诏丕亘乇蹖賱 诏丕乇爻蹖丕 賲丕乇讴夭貨 鬲丕乇禺 賳禺爻鬲蹖賳 禺賵丕賳卮 賴乇 丿賵 賳爻禺賴 蹖 亘乇诏乇丿丕賳 賮丕乇爻蹖 丿乇 乇賵夭賴丕蹖 爻丕賱2007賲蹖賱丕丿蹖
毓賳賵丕賳: 禺丕胤乇賴 丿賱亘乇讴丕賳 睾賲诏蹖賳 賲賳貨 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴: 诏丕亘乇蹖賱 诏丕乇爻蹖丕 賲丕乇讴夭貨 賲鬲乇噩賲: 讴丕賵賴 賲蹖乇毓亘賾丕爻蹖貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 賳蹖賱賵賮乇貙 爻丕賱1386貨 丿乇124氐貨 卮丕亘讴9644482522貨 賲賵囟賵毓: 丿丕爻鬲丕賳賴丕蹖 賳賵蹖爻賳丿诏丕賳 讴賱賲亘蹖丕 - 爻丿賴 20賲
毓賳賵丕賳: 禺丕胤乇丕鬲 乇賵爻倬賷丕賳 爻賵丿丕夭丿賴鈥� 賲賳貨 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴: 诏丕亘乇蹖賱 诏丕乇爻蹖丕 賲丕乇讴夭貨 賲鬲乇噩賲: 丕賲賷乇丨爻賷賳 賮胤丕賳鬲貨 賲丨賲丿 丕賲丕賲蹖貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 賳卮乇 丌賴賳诏 丿蹖诏乇貨 爻丕賱1383貨 丿乇128氐貨 卮丕亘讴9648433127貨
乇賵夭賳丕賲賴 賳诏丕乇蹖 (丕賱亘鬲賴 讴賴 乇賵夭賳丕賲賴 賳诏丕乇貙 賵 蹖丕丿賲丕賳賴丕蹖卮 丕夭 丌賳 禺賵丿 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 蹖 乇賵丕賳卮丕丿 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘貙 賳蹖爻鬲貙 禺蹖丕賱 丕爻鬲 讴賴 亘賳诏丕卮鬲賴 丕賳丿貙 丕蹖卮丕賳 丿乇 爻丕賱1958賲蹖賱丕丿蹖貙 亘丕 禺丕賳賲 芦賲乇爻丿賴 亘丕乇趩丕禄 丕夭丿賵丕噩 讴乇丿賴 亘賵丿賳丿貙 賵 丿賵 賮乇夭賳丿 亘賴 賳丕賲賴丕蹖 芦乇賵丿乇蹖诏賵禄 賵 芦诏賵賳夭丕賱賵禄 丿丕乇賳丿貙 芦诏丕亘乇蹖賱 诏丕乇爻蹖丕 賲丕乇讴夭禄 丿乇 乇賵夭 卮卮賲 賲丕賴 賲丕乇爻貙 爻丕賱1927賲蹖賱丕丿蹖貙 丿乇 芦丌乇丕讴丕鬲丕讴丕蹖 讴賱賲亘蹖丕禄 亘賴 丿賳蹖丕 丌賲丿賳丿貙 賵 丿乇 乇賵夭 賴賮丿賴賲 賲丕賴 丌賵乇蹖賱 爻丕賱2014賲蹖賱丕丿蹖 丿乇 爻賳 賴卮鬲丕丿 賵 賴賮鬲 爻丕賱诏蹖 丿乇 芦賲讴夭蹖讴賵 爻蹖鬲蹖禄 丿乇诏匕卮鬲賳丿) 讴賴 賴賲賴 蹖 毓賲乇 禺賵丿 乇丕貙 亘蹖 夭賳 賵 賮乇夭賳丿貙 賵 丿乇 鬲賳賴丕蹖蹖 亘诏匕乇丕賳丿賴貙 丿乇 賳賵丿 爻丕賱诏蹖 禺賵蹖卮貙 亘丕乇 丿蹖诏乇 毓卮賯 乇丕 鬲噩乇亘賴 賲蹖讴賳丿貙 賵 丿賱丿丕丿诏蹖 倬蹖乇丕賳賴 爻乇 夭賳丿诏蹖卮 乇丕 丿诏乇诏賵賳 賲蹖讴賳丿貙 鬲賱禺鬲乇蹖賳 毓匕丕亘賴丕 乇丕 鬲丕亘 賲蹖丌賵乇丿貙 鬲丕 亘賴 毓卮賯 賳丕亘 賵 倬丕讴 亘乇爻丿貨 诏夭蹖賳卮 噩賲賱丕鬲 丕夭 倬卮鬲 噩賱丿 讴鬲丕亘
鬲丕乇蹖禺 亘賴賳诏丕賲 乇爻丕賳蹖 04/10/1399賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 27/08/1400賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 丕. 卮乇亘蹖丕賳蹖
Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a novella by Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez. The book was originally published in Spanish in 2004.
An old journalist, who has just celebrated his 90th birthday, seeks sex with a young prostitute, who is selling her virginity to help her family. Instead of sex, he discovers love for the first time in his life.
毓賳賵丕賳賴丕蹖 趩丕倬 卮丿賴 丿乇 丕蹖乇丕賳: 芦禺丕胤乇賴 丿賱亘乇讴丕賳 睾賲诏蹖賳 賲賳禄貨 芦禺丕胤乇丕鬲 乇賵爻倬賷丕賳 爻賵丿丕夭丿賴鈥� 賲賳禄貨 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴: 诏丕亘乇蹖賱 诏丕乇爻蹖丕 賲丕乇讴夭貨 鬲丕乇禺 賳禺爻鬲蹖賳 禺賵丕賳卮 賴乇 丿賵 賳爻禺賴 蹖 亘乇诏乇丿丕賳 賮丕乇爻蹖 丿乇 乇賵夭賴丕蹖 爻丕賱2007賲蹖賱丕丿蹖
毓賳賵丕賳: 禺丕胤乇賴 丿賱亘乇讴丕賳 睾賲诏蹖賳 賲賳貨 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴: 诏丕亘乇蹖賱 诏丕乇爻蹖丕 賲丕乇讴夭貨 賲鬲乇噩賲: 讴丕賵賴 賲蹖乇毓亘賾丕爻蹖貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 賳蹖賱賵賮乇貙 爻丕賱1386貨 丿乇124氐貨 卮丕亘讴9644482522貨 賲賵囟賵毓: 丿丕爻鬲丕賳賴丕蹖 賳賵蹖爻賳丿诏丕賳 讴賱賲亘蹖丕 - 爻丿賴 20賲
毓賳賵丕賳: 禺丕胤乇丕鬲 乇賵爻倬賷丕賳 爻賵丿丕夭丿賴鈥� 賲賳貨 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴: 诏丕亘乇蹖賱 诏丕乇爻蹖丕 賲丕乇讴夭貨 賲鬲乇噩賲: 丕賲賷乇丨爻賷賳 賮胤丕賳鬲貨 賲丨賲丿 丕賲丕賲蹖貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 賳卮乇 丌賴賳诏 丿蹖诏乇貨 爻丕賱1383貨 丿乇128氐貨 卮丕亘讴9648433127貨
乇賵夭賳丕賲賴 賳诏丕乇蹖 (丕賱亘鬲賴 讴賴 乇賵夭賳丕賲賴 賳诏丕乇貙 賵 蹖丕丿賲丕賳賴丕蹖卮 丕夭 丌賳 禺賵丿 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 蹖 乇賵丕賳卮丕丿 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘貙 賳蹖爻鬲貙 禺蹖丕賱 丕爻鬲 讴賴 亘賳诏丕卮鬲賴 丕賳丿貙 丕蹖卮丕賳 丿乇 爻丕賱1958賲蹖賱丕丿蹖貙 亘丕 禺丕賳賲 芦賲乇爻丿賴 亘丕乇趩丕禄 丕夭丿賵丕噩 讴乇丿賴 亘賵丿賳丿貙 賵 丿賵 賮乇夭賳丿 亘賴 賳丕賲賴丕蹖 芦乇賵丿乇蹖诏賵禄 賵 芦诏賵賳夭丕賱賵禄 丿丕乇賳丿貙 芦诏丕亘乇蹖賱 诏丕乇爻蹖丕 賲丕乇讴夭禄 丿乇 乇賵夭 卮卮賲 賲丕賴 賲丕乇爻貙 爻丕賱1927賲蹖賱丕丿蹖貙 丿乇 芦丌乇丕讴丕鬲丕讴丕蹖 讴賱賲亘蹖丕禄 亘賴 丿賳蹖丕 丌賲丿賳丿貙 賵 丿乇 乇賵夭 賴賮丿賴賲 賲丕賴 丌賵乇蹖賱 爻丕賱2014賲蹖賱丕丿蹖 丿乇 爻賳 賴卮鬲丕丿 賵 賴賮鬲 爻丕賱诏蹖 丿乇 芦賲讴夭蹖讴賵 爻蹖鬲蹖禄 丿乇诏匕卮鬲賳丿) 讴賴 賴賲賴 蹖 毓賲乇 禺賵丿 乇丕貙 亘蹖 夭賳 賵 賮乇夭賳丿貙 賵 丿乇 鬲賳賴丕蹖蹖 亘诏匕乇丕賳丿賴貙 丿乇 賳賵丿 爻丕賱诏蹖 禺賵蹖卮貙 亘丕乇 丿蹖诏乇 毓卮賯 乇丕 鬲噩乇亘賴 賲蹖讴賳丿貙 賵 丿賱丿丕丿诏蹖 倬蹖乇丕賳賴 爻乇 夭賳丿诏蹖卮 乇丕 丿诏乇诏賵賳 賲蹖讴賳丿貙 鬲賱禺鬲乇蹖賳 毓匕丕亘賴丕 乇丕 鬲丕亘 賲蹖丌賵乇丿貙 鬲丕 亘賴 毓卮賯 賳丕亘 賵 倬丕讴 亘乇爻丿貨 诏夭蹖賳卮 噩賲賱丕鬲 丕夭 倬卮鬲 噩賱丿 讴鬲丕亘
鬲丕乇蹖禺 亘賴賳诏丕賲 乇爻丕賳蹖 04/10/1399賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 27/08/1400賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 丕. 卮乇亘蹖丕賳蹖
June 1, 2020
2.5/5
After getting the cringing fingernails down a chalkboard type feeling of a ninety-year-old man with a boner eradicated from my mind, I thought to myself "right, now that's out the way, this IS Garc铆a M谩rquez we are talking about here, I am in safe hands, don't worry, this will turn out to be a decent read". Or at least that's what I'd hoped.
This novella is narrated by an aging connoisseur of girls for hire. After spending a lifetime getting it on with prostitutes (514 of them to be precise, before losing count) the unnamed journalist fancies a nice young virgin for his 90th birthday. On the first of many occasions, he enters a room to discover the chosen girl of 14, naked and asleep. Over time he obsesses about her; writes columns that drive his readers into a frenzy; kisses her everywhere and reads to her as she sleeps. But never consummates the relationship sexually or sees her awake. The whole scenario of such an elderly man wanted to bed someone so young just put me off, but this wasn't the biggest of it's problems. Simply put, I found it dull and lazy. The narrator's wit and charm were not enough to counterbalance the monotony of his aimlessness, and sadly as a result, I never at any moment felt anything for anyone involved. It could have worked out better if I tried to look at things from the perspective of the protagonist, but I chose not to. I didn't want to be in his mind, his pants, or in his bed.
Frustratingly though, there were flashes of M谩rquez's brilliance, but this was reduced to the occasional passage of writing here and there, even the striking insights into the euphoria that is the flip side to the fear of death, couldn't save it from the grave. No wonder the whores were melancholic, they were probably also fed up, I don't blame them. Was expecting so much more, this felt like Gabriel's bad day at the office, but I guess we do all have them.
After getting the cringing fingernails down a chalkboard type feeling of a ninety-year-old man with a boner eradicated from my mind, I thought to myself "right, now that's out the way, this IS Garc铆a M谩rquez we are talking about here, I am in safe hands, don't worry, this will turn out to be a decent read". Or at least that's what I'd hoped.
This novella is narrated by an aging connoisseur of girls for hire. After spending a lifetime getting it on with prostitutes (514 of them to be precise, before losing count) the unnamed journalist fancies a nice young virgin for his 90th birthday. On the first of many occasions, he enters a room to discover the chosen girl of 14, naked and asleep. Over time he obsesses about her; writes columns that drive his readers into a frenzy; kisses her everywhere and reads to her as she sleeps. But never consummates the relationship sexually or sees her awake. The whole scenario of such an elderly man wanted to bed someone so young just put me off, but this wasn't the biggest of it's problems. Simply put, I found it dull and lazy. The narrator's wit and charm were not enough to counterbalance the monotony of his aimlessness, and sadly as a result, I never at any moment felt anything for anyone involved. It could have worked out better if I tried to look at things from the perspective of the protagonist, but I chose not to. I didn't want to be in his mind, his pants, or in his bed.
Frustratingly though, there were flashes of M谩rquez's brilliance, but this was reduced to the occasional passage of writing here and there, even the striking insights into the euphoria that is the flip side to the fear of death, couldn't save it from the grave. No wonder the whores were melancholic, they were probably also fed up, I don't blame them. Was expecting so much more, this felt like Gabriel's bad day at the office, but I guess we do all have them.
March 20, 2023
丿乇丕賲丕 毓亘孬賷丞 兀禺乇賶 毓賳 毓噩賵夭 亘賱睾 丕賱鬲爻毓賷賳 賵 賱賲 賷鬲夭賵噩 兀亘丿丕 賵 賱賲 賷鬲丨賲賱 兀賷 賲爻卅賵賱賷丞. 亘賱 賱賲 賷丿乇賰 兀賳 毓賱賷賴 匕賱賰 廿賱丕 賲鬲兀禺乇丕 噩丿丕.
賯賱鬲 賱賴丕: 賷亘丿賵 兀賳賳賷 亘丿兀鬲 兀卮賷禺. 鬲賳賴丿鬲 賴賷: 賳丨賳 卮禺賳丕 亘丕賱賮毓賱. 賱賰賳 丕賱兀賲乇 廿賳 丕賱賵丕丨丿 賲賳丕 賱丕 賷卮毓乇 亘丕賱卮賷禺賵禺丞 賲賳 丕賱丿丕禺賱 賵 賱賰賳 賲賳 丕賱禺丕乇噩 賰賱 丕賱毓丕賱賲 賷乇丕賴丕.賵 賱兀賳賴 兀賳賮賯 丨賷丕鬲賴 賮賷 丕賱賲賱匕丕鬲 亘丕賱胤賵賱 賵 丕賱毓乇囟 賵 賱賲 賷毓 兀賳 賵噩賵丿 卮乇賷賰丞 賱丨賷丕鬲賴 賲賳 丕賱兀賲賵乇 丕賱賲賴賲丞 廿賱丕 賮賷 丕賱賮乇丕卮 賮賯丿 賰丕賳鬲 丕賱丨賯賷賯丞 丕賱賰丕卮賮丞 兀賳 丕賱乇賵丨 賱丕 鬲氐丿兀 兀亘丿丕 賵 兀賳 丕賱噩爻丿 賷亘賱賶 賵 丕賱賯賱亘 賲丕 夭丕賱 兀禺囟乇丕 毓賱賶 毓賵丿賴
賲賳匕 匕賱賰 丕賱賵賯鬲 亘丿兀鬲 兀賯賷爻 丕賱丨賷丕丞 賱賷爻 亘丕賱爻賳賵丕鬲 賵 賱賰賳 亘丕賱毓賯賵丿. 毓賯丿 丕賱禺賲爻賷賳丕鬲 賲賳 毓賲乇賷 賰丕賳 丨丕爻賲丕 賱兀賳賳賷 丕賳鬲亘賴鬲 廿賱賶 兀賳 賰賱 丕賱賳丕爻 鬲賯乇賷亘丕 兀氐睾乇 賲賳賷 爻賳丕. 賵 丕賱爻鬲賷賳賷丕鬲 賰丕賳鬲 丕賱兀賰孬乇 鬲賵鬲乇丕 賱丕卮鬲亘丕賴賷 賮賷 兀賳賴 賱賲 賷亘賯 賱丿賷 賵賯鬲 丨鬲賶 兀禺胤卅. 賵 丕賱爻亘毓賷賳賷丕鬲 賰丕賳 賲禺賷賮丕 賱丕卮鬲亘丕賴賷 賮賷 兀賳賴 乇亘賲丕 賷賰賵賳 丕賱毓賯丿 丕賱兀禺賷乇 賲賳 毓賲乇賷. 賵 亘丕賱鬲丕賱賷 毓賳丿賲丕 丕爻鬲賷賯馗鬲 丨賷丕 賵 爻毓賷丿丕 賮賷 兀賵賱 賷賵賲 賲賳 兀毓賵丕賲賷 丕賱鬲爻毓賷賳 賮賷 爻乇賷乇 丿賱噩丕丿賷賳丕 丕禺鬲乇賯鬲賳賷 丕賱賮賰乇丞 丕賱爻毓賷丿丞 亘兀賳 丕賱丨賷丕丞 賱賷爻鬲 卮賷卅丕 賷噩乇賷 賰賳賴乇 賴賷乇丕賰賱賷鬲賵 丕賱毓賰乇 亘賱 賴賷 賮乇氐丞 賵丨賷丿丞 賱賱鬲賯賱亘 毓賱賶 丕賱賳丕乇 賵 賲賵丕氐賱丞 卮賵丕亍 丕賱賳賮爻 賲賳 丕賱噩丕賳亘 丕賱兀禺乇 禺賱丕賱 鬲爻毓賷賳 爻賳丞 兀禺乇賶.
January 28, 2008
I really didn't like this story. The writing as always was wonderful - the descriptions, the language, the character development - all excellent. The story however was extremely disturbing and sad.
Chapter 1 in particular, when the narrator describes how upon turning 90 he decided he wanted to have sex with a young virgin was appalling. Then the local madam finds a 14 year old, poor, illiterate girl for him. He goes to see her and finds her asleep because she had been so afraid she had to be sedated. Although he doesn't have sex with her because she's asleep, he describes her naked body in detail - describing her pre-pubescent breasts, etc. It was disgusting and disturbing.
This book wasn't written in a time when this was even discreetly acceptable, it was written in 2004 when it is considered by most societies, certainly Garcia-Marquez's society as taboo. He did it to shock and titillate - well all it did was disgust me. He's a brilliant writer, he doesn't need these gimmicks.
Chapter 1 in particular, when the narrator describes how upon turning 90 he decided he wanted to have sex with a young virgin was appalling. Then the local madam finds a 14 year old, poor, illiterate girl for him. He goes to see her and finds her asleep because she had been so afraid she had to be sedated. Although he doesn't have sex with her because she's asleep, he describes her naked body in detail - describing her pre-pubescent breasts, etc. It was disgusting and disturbing.
This book wasn't written in a time when this was even discreetly acceptable, it was written in 2004 when it is considered by most societies, certainly Garcia-Marquez's society as taboo. He did it to shock and titillate - well all it did was disgust me. He's a brilliant writer, he doesn't need these gimmicks.
July 13, 2023
- 賴賱 丕丨亘 噩丕亘乇賷賷賱 噩丕乇爻賷丕 賯氐丞 "丕賱噩賲賷賱丕鬲 丕賱賳丕卅賲丕鬲" 賱賴匕賴 丕賱丿乇噩丞責 賴賱 亘賯賷鬲 丕賲賳賷鬲賴 賮賷 丕賳 賷賰賵賳 賰丕鬲亘 鬲賱賰 丕賱賯氐丞 睾氐丞 賮賷 丨賱賯賴責 丕賲 丕賳賴 丕氐丕亘賴 丕賱賴賵爻 亘賴丕 賮兀爻賯胤賴丕 毓賱賶 丨賷丕鬲賴 (丕賵 丨賷丕丞 亘胤賱賴) 賵毓丕卮賴丕 賱賷丨爻 亘鬲賱賰 丕賱賱匕丞責!!.. 賱丕 丕丿乇賷..
- 丕賱賮賰乇丞 賴賷 匕丕鬲賴丕 賲賳 "丕賱噩賲賷賱丕鬲 丕賱賳丕卅賲丕鬲"貙 賱賰賳賴丕 賴賳丕 鬲胤賮賵 毓賱賶 丕賱爻胤丨貙 亘丿賵賳 丕賷 毓賲賯 丕賵 亘毓丿... 乇卮賾 毓賱賷賴丕 丕賱賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱賵丕賯毓賷丞 丕賱賵噩賵丿賷丞貙 賵夭賷賳賴丕 亘匕賰乇賷丕鬲賺 鬲賳鬲賯賱 亘賷賳 毓丕賴乇丞 賵丕禺乇賶!!
- 賴賱 毓乇賮 丕賱丨亘 毓賳丿 亘賱賵睾賴 丕賱鬲爻毓賷賳 毓丕賲丕賸責! 丕賷賲賰賳 賱賲賳 毓丕卮 亘賷賳 丕丨囟丕賳 丕賱毓丕賴乇丕鬲 丕賳 賷亘賯賶 亘賲賯丿賵乇賴 丕賳 賷丨亘! 丕賲 賴賷 丕賱卮賮賯丞 毓賱賶 丕賱匕丕鬲 賵丕賱禺賵賮 賲賳 丕賱賲賵鬲 賵丨賷丿丕賸責 丕賵 乇亘賲丕 丕賱賴賱毓 賲賳 丕賯鬲乇丕亘 丕賱賲賵鬲 丕賱爻乇賷毓 賵丕賱鬲賲鬲毓 亘丌禺乇 賱丨馗丕鬲 丕賱丨賷丕丞責! 丕賵 賴賷 丕賱毓賵丿丞 毓賱賶 亘丿亍 賵鬲丨爻爻 噩爻丿 賲乇丕賴賯丞 賯丿 亘丿兀鬲 鬲鬲賮鬲丨 丕夭賴丕乇賴丕責!!
- 賱賳乇賶 丿賵乇 丕賱賲乇兀丞 賮賷 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞: 賴賳丕賰 毓丕賴乇丞貙 賵毓丕賴乇丞 賯丿賷賲丞 賵賯賵丕丿丞 賵毓丕賴乇丞 丕禺乇賶.. 丨鬲賶 丕賱毓匕乇丕亍 賰丕賳 賷賳丕賲 亘噩丕賳亘賴丕 賮賷 亘賷鬲 丿毓丕乇丞!!... 賴匕賴 賳馗乇丞 爻賷卅丞 賱賱賳爻丕亍 賵丿賵賳賷丞 賵馗賱賲 賱丕 賷賲賰賳 丕賳 賷賯亘賱 亘賴.
- 亘丕賱賳賴丕賷丞 乇賵丕賷丞 賱丕亘兀爻 亘賴丕貙 賱賰賳賴丕 爻賷卅丞 噩丿丕賸 賱賲丕乇賰賷夭!
- 丕賱賮賰乇丞 賴賷 匕丕鬲賴丕 賲賳 "丕賱噩賲賷賱丕鬲 丕賱賳丕卅賲丕鬲"貙 賱賰賳賴丕 賴賳丕 鬲胤賮賵 毓賱賶 丕賱爻胤丨貙 亘丿賵賳 丕賷 毓賲賯 丕賵 亘毓丿... 乇卮賾 毓賱賷賴丕 丕賱賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱賵丕賯毓賷丞 丕賱賵噩賵丿賷丞貙 賵夭賷賳賴丕 亘匕賰乇賷丕鬲賺 鬲賳鬲賯賱 亘賷賳 毓丕賴乇丞 賵丕禺乇賶!!
- 賴賱 毓乇賮 丕賱丨亘 毓賳丿 亘賱賵睾賴 丕賱鬲爻毓賷賳 毓丕賲丕賸責! 丕賷賲賰賳 賱賲賳 毓丕卮 亘賷賳 丕丨囟丕賳 丕賱毓丕賴乇丕鬲 丕賳 賷亘賯賶 亘賲賯丿賵乇賴 丕賳 賷丨亘! 丕賲 賴賷 丕賱卮賮賯丞 毓賱賶 丕賱匕丕鬲 賵丕賱禺賵賮 賲賳 丕賱賲賵鬲 賵丨賷丿丕賸責 丕賵 乇亘賲丕 丕賱賴賱毓 賲賳 丕賯鬲乇丕亘 丕賱賲賵鬲 丕賱爻乇賷毓 賵丕賱鬲賲鬲毓 亘丌禺乇 賱丨馗丕鬲 丕賱丨賷丕丞責! 丕賵 賴賷 丕賱毓賵丿丞 毓賱賶 亘丿亍 賵鬲丨爻爻 噩爻丿 賲乇丕賴賯丞 賯丿 亘丿兀鬲 鬲鬲賮鬲丨 丕夭賴丕乇賴丕責!!
- 賱賳乇賶 丿賵乇 丕賱賲乇兀丞 賮賷 賴匕賴 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞: 賴賳丕賰 毓丕賴乇丞貙 賵毓丕賴乇丞 賯丿賷賲丞 賵賯賵丕丿丞 賵毓丕賴乇丞 丕禺乇賶.. 丨鬲賶 丕賱毓匕乇丕亍 賰丕賳 賷賳丕賲 亘噩丕賳亘賴丕 賮賷 亘賷鬲 丿毓丕乇丞!!... 賴匕賴 賳馗乇丞 爻賷卅丞 賱賱賳爻丕亍 賵丿賵賳賷丞 賵馗賱賲 賱丕 賷賲賰賳 丕賳 賷賯亘賱 亘賴.
- 亘丕賱賳賴丕賷丞 乇賵丕賷丞 賱丕亘兀爻 亘賴丕貙 賱賰賳賴丕 爻賷卅丞 噩丿丕賸 賱賲丕乇賰賷夭!
March 7, 2020
On a certain level, I truly enjoyed "Memories of My Melancholy Whores". I am always ready to be swept up in the simple whimsy of G.G.M's language, and the sweeping romance and dramatic emotion of his work always appeals to me. But on another very real level I found this book disturbing and sexist.
The book's theme is strikingly reminiscent of "Talk to Her", a recent Almodovar film. Both deal with men who build flowery romantic/erotic relationships in their minds with a completely passive sleeping woman. In the film, the man in question is a nurse in a hospital caring for an accomplished ballerina who is in a coma. In "Melancholy Whores", the "lover" is a man who has just turned ninety and falls in love with a 14 year old prostitute who he visits every night while she sleeps deeply (possibly drugged).
If you choose to put aside the creepy elements and focus on the romantic sentiment and poetic pedestal that Delgadina (the name the old man invents for his nameless "whore") is placed atop, the book is a very beautiful reflection on the need for love and the degradations of aging. If you can't put is aside, this is a story of a strange pedophilic attachment that certainly should not be romanticized.
Both the Almodovar film and this book romanticize and rhapsodize about the perfectly passive woman-- a woman as little more than an object-- and construct fantasy relationships with someone who never speaks, or even opens her eyes. I once saw an issue of Hustler that had this photo of "The Ideal Woman". She had Jack Daniels coming out of one nipple, and milk out of the other. Guacamole issued from her nether regions and stuffed in her mouth was a tampon. The caption explained that since this woman menstruated from her mouth she was completely silent for about a week every month. This is, of course, disgustingly crude, but take away the frills of magical realism and I feel like "Memories of My Melancholy Whores" is not that different.
There are definite high points. The protagonist's reflections on aging were sharp and funny. The epic nature of the love described in the text whips you away on a Sleeping Beauty/ fairy-tale romance that evokes true punch-in-the-stomach emotion.
But in the end, this "princess" is a pre-pubescent prostitute who slaves away sewing on buttons all day to take care of her family and spends her nights fondled and admired by an aged delusional "beast", who will never take her away from reality in princely fashion. In the end, for me anyway, the ick factor breaks the spell.
The book's theme is strikingly reminiscent of "Talk to Her", a recent Almodovar film. Both deal with men who build flowery romantic/erotic relationships in their minds with a completely passive sleeping woman. In the film, the man in question is a nurse in a hospital caring for an accomplished ballerina who is in a coma. In "Melancholy Whores", the "lover" is a man who has just turned ninety and falls in love with a 14 year old prostitute who he visits every night while she sleeps deeply (possibly drugged).
If you choose to put aside the creepy elements and focus on the romantic sentiment and poetic pedestal that Delgadina (the name the old man invents for his nameless "whore") is placed atop, the book is a very beautiful reflection on the need for love and the degradations of aging. If you can't put is aside, this is a story of a strange pedophilic attachment that certainly should not be romanticized.
Both the Almodovar film and this book romanticize and rhapsodize about the perfectly passive woman-- a woman as little more than an object-- and construct fantasy relationships with someone who never speaks, or even opens her eyes. I once saw an issue of Hustler that had this photo of "The Ideal Woman". She had Jack Daniels coming out of one nipple, and milk out of the other. Guacamole issued from her nether regions and stuffed in her mouth was a tampon. The caption explained that since this woman menstruated from her mouth she was completely silent for about a week every month. This is, of course, disgustingly crude, but take away the frills of magical realism and I feel like "Memories of My Melancholy Whores" is not that different.
There are definite high points. The protagonist's reflections on aging were sharp and funny. The epic nature of the love described in the text whips you away on a Sleeping Beauty/ fairy-tale romance that evokes true punch-in-the-stomach emotion.
But in the end, this "princess" is a pre-pubescent prostitute who slaves away sewing on buttons all day to take care of her family and spends her nights fondled and admired by an aged delusional "beast", who will never take her away from reality in princely fashion. In the end, for me anyway, the ick factor breaks the spell.
May 23, 2024
芦No ano dos meus noventa anos quis oferecer a mim mesmo uma noite de amor louco com uma adolescente virgem.禄, assim come莽a este livro.
Ao encontrar essa adolescente virgem, uma bela adormecida, - o escritor ( 茅 essa a sua profiss茫o) descobre aos 90 anos o que 茅 dormir com uma mulher sem a necessidade de sexo.
Um homem que come莽ou por apresentar-se como algu茅m que nunca foi para a cama com nenhuma mulher sem lhe pagar e que convencia as poucas que n茫o eram da profiss茫o pela raz茫o ou pela for莽a a que recebessem o dinheiro nem que fosse para o deitar ao lixo.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez conta com m茅rito, brilho e humor, bem 脿 maneira dos escritores sul-americanos, esta hist贸ria de amor muito bem enquadrada na vida social e pol铆tica da Col么mbia dos anos vinte do s茅culo passado, numa 茅poca que os homens iniciavam a sua vida sexual com prostitutas.
Em minha opini茫o, uma homenagem a essas mulheres.
Ao encontrar essa adolescente virgem, uma bela adormecida, - o escritor ( 茅 essa a sua profiss茫o) descobre aos 90 anos o que 茅 dormir com uma mulher sem a necessidade de sexo.
Um homem que come莽ou por apresentar-se como algu茅m que nunca foi para a cama com nenhuma mulher sem lhe pagar e que convencia as poucas que n茫o eram da profiss茫o pela raz茫o ou pela for莽a a que recebessem o dinheiro nem que fosse para o deitar ao lixo.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez conta com m茅rito, brilho e humor, bem 脿 maneira dos escritores sul-americanos, esta hist贸ria de amor muito bem enquadrada na vida social e pol铆tica da Col么mbia dos anos vinte do s茅culo passado, numa 茅poca que os homens iniciavam a sua vida sexual com prostitutas.
Em minha opini茫o, uma homenagem a essas mulheres.
May 25, 2015
A Latin-American "Lolita" Lite or: Don't Let The Title Scare You (This Isn't A Dirty Old Man Book)
It鈥檚 been years since I've read anything by Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez, and so this little book, while not as grand, sweeping or substantial as the works that earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, came as a lovely, gentle surprise.
Reading it felt like catching up with a grizzled old friend who can tell a mean story. Garc铆a M谩rquez鈥檚 seductive writing has a perfumed air of nostalgia and romance about it. Once sniffed, it's impossible to tear yourself away.
Take the book鈥檚 remarkable opening line:
鈥淭he year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.鈥�
The unnamed narrator isn鈥檛 as lecherous as he sounds. He鈥檚 鈥渦gly, shy, and anachronistic,鈥� a journalist who used to rewrite wire copy and now supplements his income by teaching Spanish lessons and penning a newspaper column. He never married (although he was once engaged), and doesn鈥檛 have any children. And, until now, he鈥檚 never been in love.
Yes, this is a story about a man who鈥檚 gone nearly a century without finding love. And now, old, wrinkled, his joints (and other things) creaky, he falls. With passion. And frustration. And jealousy. But absolutely no regrets.
The object of his love isn鈥檛 all that important in the book. She鈥檚 kept intentionally vague, often seen sleeping (she works at a factory sewing on buttons), her tired back usually turned to the narrator. We're not even told her real name, although the narrator calls her 鈥淒elgadina,鈥� after the lyrics of a favourite song.
The fact is, the burst of energy the man gets from his (rather chaste) relationship with Delgadina suddenly gives his life meaning and purpose. His columns, many of them now about love, become famous in town; radio hosts read them to thousands of listeners. He gets the nickname 鈥渢he maestro of love.鈥� People recognize him on the streets.
Garc铆a M谩rquez's powers of description are as strong as ever. The pacing is impeccable. Several characters 鈥� from the brothel madame, Rosa Cabarcas, to the narrator's hard-working, tireless maid 鈥� snap to life in a few sharp sentences and lines of dialogue. As a 90th birthday present, the old man is given an old cat, who pads his way through a few scenes without becoming too obvious a symbol. In one heartbreaking episode the narrator hooks up with an old sexual partner and instead of getting physical, they talk honestly about their lives and their age, which feels even more intimate than sex.
There's not one wasted word. Garc铆a M谩rquez has distilled his art to its very essence. One caveat: If you're too young, you may not get as much out of this. You need to have chalked up some regrets. It's one of those "the unexamined life is not worth living" books.
Prepare to think about your own history of love. To be nostalgic for a time and place you never even knew. To laugh and weep over the surprises, joys and melancholic moments of a long, fully inhabited life.
It鈥檚 been years since I've read anything by Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez, and so this little book, while not as grand, sweeping or substantial as the works that earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, came as a lovely, gentle surprise.
Reading it felt like catching up with a grizzled old friend who can tell a mean story. Garc铆a M谩rquez鈥檚 seductive writing has a perfumed air of nostalgia and romance about it. Once sniffed, it's impossible to tear yourself away.
Take the book鈥檚 remarkable opening line:
鈥淭he year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.鈥�
The unnamed narrator isn鈥檛 as lecherous as he sounds. He鈥檚 鈥渦gly, shy, and anachronistic,鈥� a journalist who used to rewrite wire copy and now supplements his income by teaching Spanish lessons and penning a newspaper column. He never married (although he was once engaged), and doesn鈥檛 have any children. And, until now, he鈥檚 never been in love.
Yes, this is a story about a man who鈥檚 gone nearly a century without finding love. And now, old, wrinkled, his joints (and other things) creaky, he falls. With passion. And frustration. And jealousy. But absolutely no regrets.
The object of his love isn鈥檛 all that important in the book. She鈥檚 kept intentionally vague, often seen sleeping (she works at a factory sewing on buttons), her tired back usually turned to the narrator. We're not even told her real name, although the narrator calls her 鈥淒elgadina,鈥� after the lyrics of a favourite song.
The fact is, the burst of energy the man gets from his (rather chaste) relationship with Delgadina suddenly gives his life meaning and purpose. His columns, many of them now about love, become famous in town; radio hosts read them to thousands of listeners. He gets the nickname 鈥渢he maestro of love.鈥� People recognize him on the streets.
Garc铆a M谩rquez's powers of description are as strong as ever. The pacing is impeccable. Several characters 鈥� from the brothel madame, Rosa Cabarcas, to the narrator's hard-working, tireless maid 鈥� snap to life in a few sharp sentences and lines of dialogue. As a 90th birthday present, the old man is given an old cat, who pads his way through a few scenes without becoming too obvious a symbol. In one heartbreaking episode the narrator hooks up with an old sexual partner and instead of getting physical, they talk honestly about their lives and their age, which feels even more intimate than sex.
There's not one wasted word. Garc铆a M谩rquez has distilled his art to its very essence. One caveat: If you're too young, you may not get as much out of this. You need to have chalked up some regrets. It's one of those "the unexamined life is not worth living" books.
Prepare to think about your own history of love. To be nostalgic for a time and place you never even knew. To laugh and weep over the surprises, joys and melancholic moments of a long, fully inhabited life.
March 9, 2015
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亘賴 賴賲賴 孬丕亘鬲 賲蹖 讴乇丿賲
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丕賱亘鬲賴 讴賲蹖 賲鬲賮丕賵鬲鬲乇
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丕賲乇賵夭 讴賴 賳诏丕賴蹖 亘賴 讴鬲丕亘 丕賳丿丕禺鬲賲
賯亘賱 丕夭 卮乇賵毓 丕蹖賳 乇丕 賳賵卮鬲賴
夭賳 賲賴賲丕賳禺丕賳賴 丿丕乇 亘賴 丕诏賵趩蹖 倬蹖乇 賴卮丿丕乇 丿丕丿: 賴蹖趩 讴丕乇 夭卮鬲蹖 賳亘丕蹖丿 亘讴賳蹖.賲亘丕丿丕 丕賳诏卮鬲 鬲賵蹖 丿賴賳 夭賳 禺賵丕亘蹖丿賴 蹖丕 蹖讴 讴丕乇 丿蹖诏賴 丕蹖 卮亘蹖賴 亘讴賳蹖
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倬爻 賲丕乇讴夭 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕 亘禺丕胤乇 毓卮賯卮 亘賴 讴鬲丕亘 禺丕賳賴 夭蹖亘丕乇賵蹖丕賳 禺賮鬲賴 賳賵卮鬲賴
丕賵 诏賵卮蹖 乇丕 亘乇 賲蹖丿丕乇丿 賵 夭賳诏 賲蹖 夭賳丿. 夭賳 倬卮鬲 鬲賱賮賳貙 倬蹖乇賲乇丿 乇丕 亘蹖丕丿 賲蹖 丌賵乇丿 賵 倬蹖乇賲乇丿 丌賳趩賴 乇丕 賲蹖禺賵丕爻鬲賴貙 亘賴 丕賵 賲蹖诏賵蹖丿
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亘賴 賴賲賴 孬丕亘鬲 賲蹖 讴乇丿賲
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倬蹖乇賲乇丿蹖 丿乇 亘乇丕亘乇 丿禺鬲乇丕賳 噩賵丕賳
丕賱亘鬲賴 讴賲蹖 賲鬲賮丕賵鬲鬲乇
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丕賲乇賵夭 讴賴 賳诏丕賴蹖 亘賴 讴鬲丕亘 丕賳丿丕禺鬲賲
賯亘賱 丕夭 卮乇賵毓 丕蹖賳 乇丕 賳賵卮鬲賴
夭賳 賲賴賲丕賳禺丕賳賴 丿丕乇 亘賴 丕诏賵趩蹖 倬蹖乇 賴卮丿丕乇 丿丕丿: 賴蹖趩 讴丕乇 夭卮鬲蹖 賳亘丕蹖丿 亘讴賳蹖.賲亘丕丿丕 丕賳诏卮鬲 鬲賵蹖 丿賴賳 夭賳 禺賵丕亘蹖丿賴 蹖丕 蹖讴 讴丕乇 丿蹖诏賴 丕蹖 卮亘蹖賴 亘讴賳蹖
蹖丕爻賵賳丕乇蹖 讴丕賵丕亘丕鬲丕貙禺丕賳賴 賲賴乇賵蹖丕賳 禺賮鬲賴
倬爻 賲丕乇讴夭 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕 亘禺丕胤乇 毓卮賯卮 亘賴 讴鬲丕亘 禺丕賳賴 夭蹖亘丕乇賵蹖丕賳 禺賮鬲賴 賳賵卮鬲賴
August 10, 2018
"The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin."
Love him, hate him. You got to give Garc铆a M谩rquez some credit: The man can write an opening line. And so begins an intriguing story of a man who finally falls in love at the ripe age of 90 with a 14-year-old prostitute. If you're familiar with Garc铆a M谩rquez's oeuvre of work, prostitution and underage sex would be just a walk in the park for most. However, I must warn you of these themes if you cannot stomach it.
I'd call this "Sleeping Beauty with a M谩rquez twist". The subject matter may be difficult to discuss considering that we, as a society, have constantly frowned at sex and its association with the elderly. No, it isn't the erotic fantasy of a dirty old man. The narrative has its sensuality, and a tragic sense of heart-rendering passion that is always unfulfilled, yet it is still wholesome at the core. I'd definitely recommend this for an evening read as it is a relatively short story.
Love him, hate him. You got to give Garc铆a M谩rquez some credit: The man can write an opening line. And so begins an intriguing story of a man who finally falls in love at the ripe age of 90 with a 14-year-old prostitute. If you're familiar with Garc铆a M谩rquez's oeuvre of work, prostitution and underage sex would be just a walk in the park for most. However, I must warn you of these themes if you cannot stomach it.
I'd call this "Sleeping Beauty with a M谩rquez twist". The subject matter may be difficult to discuss considering that we, as a society, have constantly frowned at sex and its association with the elderly. No, it isn't the erotic fantasy of a dirty old man. The narrative has its sensuality, and a tragic sense of heart-rendering passion that is always unfulfilled, yet it is still wholesome at the core. I'd definitely recommend this for an evening read as it is a relatively short story.
November 10, 2021
Uf, lo siento pero es un NO rotundo.
Me ha sabido a poco, me ha parecido que solo fue publicada por el simple renombre de Garc铆a M谩rquez y ya est谩. Es m谩s, no me ha sabido a nada. Para eso mejor leerse Lolita o La carne, que son dos novelas que exploran los temas que aqu铆 se han tratado de forma superficial. La primera trata sobre estar en la mente de un ped贸filo/pederasta y la segunda sobre la vejez y como la protagonista se toma esa situaci贸n que se torna complicada en todo sentido para ella. Mucho mejor contadas y narradas, a m铆 parecer, con todo el respeto y sin desmeritar que este relato se lee r谩pido y la pluma de Gabo no se hace pesada.
Me ha sabido a poco, me ha parecido que solo fue publicada por el simple renombre de Garc铆a M谩rquez y ya est谩. Es m谩s, no me ha sabido a nada. Para eso mejor leerse Lolita o La carne, que son dos novelas que exploran los temas que aqu铆 se han tratado de forma superficial. La primera trata sobre estar en la mente de un ped贸filo/pederasta y la segunda sobre la vejez y como la protagonista se toma esa situaci贸n que se torna complicada en todo sentido para ella. Mucho mejor contadas y narradas, a m铆 parecer, con todo el respeto y sin desmeritar que este relato se lee r谩pido y la pluma de Gabo no se hace pesada.
November 4, 2023
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" 賲蹖 禺賵丕爻鬲賲 賴賲賴 讴丕乇賴丕蹖賲 乇丕 亘讴賳賲 賵 爻乇 賮乇氐鬲 亘賴 丿賳亘丕賱 丕賵 亘乇賵賲.賲蹖 禺賵丕爻鬲賲 丕賵賱貙 丿賳蹖丕 乇丕 毓賵囟 讴賳賲貙 讴鬲丕亘 賴丕蹖賲 乇丕 亘賳賵蹖爻賲貙 丕爻賲 賵 乇爻賲 亘賴 賴賲 亘夭賳賲貙 亘乇賳丿賴 卮賵賲 賵 亘毓丿 亘丕 丿爻鬲 賴丕蹖 倬乇 亘賴 丿賳亘丕賱卮 亘乇賵賲貙 禺亘乇 賳丿丕卮鬲賲 讴賴 毓卮賯 賲賳鬲馗乇 丌丿賲 賴丕 賳賲蹖 賲丕賳丿... "
賵 丕蹖賳 丕夭 丿爻鬲 乇賮鬲賳 賴丕 乇賵 賲蹖卮賴 亘賴 毓賲乇貙 丌乇夭賵賴丕貙 夭賳丿诏蹖貙..鈥屸€�. 賵 賴賲賴 蹖 賱匕鬲 賴丕 賵 禺賵丕爻鬲賴 賴丕蹖 讴賵趩蹖讴 賵 亘夭乇诏 丿賳蹖丕 鬲毓賲蹖賲 丿丕丿.
丕賲丕 丿乇 賳賴丕蹖鬲貙 亘蹖賳 丕賲蹖丿賵丕乇蹖 賴丕貙 丕卮鬲蹖丕賯 賵 丨爻乇鬲 賴丕蹖 丕蹖賳 卮賵诏乇丿丿蹖 賳賵卮讴賮鬲賴 蹖 賳賲丕丿蹖賳貙 賳鬲蹖噩賴 诏蹖乇蹖 賴丕賲 讴賲蹖 亘賴賲 乇蹖禺鬲賴 讴賴 亘丕賱丕禺乇賴 夭賵丿 丿蹖乇 賲蹖卮賴責 蹖丕 丿蹖乇 丕賵賲丿蹖 賳禺賵丕賴 夭賵丿 亘乇賵責 蹖丕 讴賱丕 賴蹖趩 賵賯鬲 亘乇丕蹖 賴蹖趩 趩蹖夭 丿蹖乇 賳蹖爻鬲責馃珷馃
亘丕 禺賵賳丿賳 丨爻 賵 丨丕賱 乇賵夭賳丕賲賴 賳诏丕乇 賳賵丿 爻丕賱賴貙 賮讴乇 讴乇丿賲 讴賴 卮丕蹖丿 丨賯 亘丕 诏賱蹖 鬲乇賯蹖 亘丕卮賴:
" 賲蹖 禺賵丕爻鬲賲 賴賲賴 讴丕乇賴丕蹖賲 乇丕 亘讴賳賲 賵 爻乇 賮乇氐鬲 亘賴 丿賳亘丕賱 丕賵 亘乇賵賲.賲蹖 禺賵丕爻鬲賲 丕賵賱貙 丿賳蹖丕 乇丕 毓賵囟 讴賳賲貙 讴鬲丕亘 賴丕蹖賲 乇丕 亘賳賵蹖爻賲貙 丕爻賲 賵 乇爻賲 亘賴 賴賲 亘夭賳賲貙 亘乇賳丿賴 卮賵賲 賵 亘毓丿 亘丕 丿爻鬲 賴丕蹖 倬乇 亘賴 丿賳亘丕賱卮 亘乇賵賲貙 禺亘乇 賳丿丕卮鬲賲 讴賴 毓卮賯 賲賳鬲馗乇 丌丿賲 賴丕 賳賲蹖 賲丕賳丿... "
賵 丕蹖賳 丕夭 丿爻鬲 乇賮鬲賳 賴丕 乇賵 賲蹖卮賴 亘賴 毓賲乇貙 丌乇夭賵賴丕貙 夭賳丿诏蹖貙..鈥屸€�. 賵 賴賲賴 蹖 賱匕鬲 賴丕 賵 禺賵丕爻鬲賴 賴丕蹖 讴賵趩蹖讴 賵 亘夭乇诏 丿賳蹖丕 鬲毓賲蹖賲 丿丕丿.
丕賲丕 丿乇 賳賴丕蹖鬲貙 亘蹖賳 丕賲蹖丿賵丕乇蹖 賴丕貙 丕卮鬲蹖丕賯 賵 丨爻乇鬲 賴丕蹖 丕蹖賳 卮賵诏乇丿丿蹖 賳賵卮讴賮鬲賴 蹖 賳賲丕丿蹖賳貙 賳鬲蹖噩賴 诏蹖乇蹖 賴丕賲 讴賲蹖 亘賴賲 乇蹖禺鬲賴 讴賴 亘丕賱丕禺乇賴 夭賵丿 丿蹖乇 賲蹖卮賴責 蹖丕 丿蹖乇 丕賵賲丿蹖 賳禺賵丕賴 夭賵丿 亘乇賵責 蹖丕 讴賱丕 賴蹖趩 賵賯鬲 亘乇丕蹖 賴蹖趩 趩蹖夭 丿蹖乇 賳蹖爻鬲責馃珷馃
September 4, 2015
丿蹖丿诏丕賴 氐賲蹖賲蹖 賵 乇賵卮賳 賵 丿乇 毓蹖賳 丨丕賱貙 卮丿蹖丿丕賸 卮丕毓乇丕賳賴 蹖 诏丕亘乇蹖賱 诏丕乇爻蹖丕 賲丕乇讴夭貙 賴賲蹖卮賴 賲賳 乇賵 亘賴 鬲丨爻蹖賳 賵 卮诏賮鬲蹖 賵丕 賲蹖丿丕乇賴.
亘蹖賳 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 賴丕蹖 賵胤賳蹖貙 乇丕蹖噩 卮丿賴 讴賴 賴乇 讴爻 亘禺賵丕丿 丿蹖丿蹖 乇賵卮賳賮讴乇丕賳賴 賵 毓賲蹖賯 亘賴 夭賳丿诏蹖 丿丕卮鬲賴 亘丕卮賴貙 丨鬲賲丕賸 亘丕蹖丿 丕蹖賳 丿蹖丿 鬲丕乇蹖讴 賵 鬲賱禺 亘丕卮賴. 賲丕乇讴夭 賳卮賵賳 賲蹖丿賴 讴賴 賲蹖卮賴 亘丿賵賳 鬲賱禺 丕賳丿蹖卮蹖 賵 亘丿賵賳 丿倬乇爻 讴乇丿賳 禺賵丕賳賳丿賴貙 丿蹖丿蹖 毓賲蹖賯 - 賵 夭蹖亘丕 - 亘賴 夭賳丿诏蹖 丿丕卮鬲. 鬲丕 噩丕蹖蹖 讴賴 丨鬲丕 賵賯鬲蹖 丕夭 賵丨卮鬲 丕夭 賲乇诏 爻禺賳 賲蹖诏賴貙 卮賲丕 乇賵 亘丕 卮蹖乇蹖賳 鬲乇蹖賳 賵 乇賳诏丕乇賳诏 鬲乇蹖賳 乇丐蹖丕賴丕 乇賵 亘賴 乇賵 賲蹖讴賳賴.
乇賲丕賳 乇賵 賲蹖鬲賵賳蹖丿 丕夭 丕蹖賳噩丕 丿丕賳賱賵丿 讴賳蹖丿:
亘蹖賳 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 賴丕蹖 賵胤賳蹖貙 乇丕蹖噩 卮丿賴 讴賴 賴乇 讴爻 亘禺賵丕丿 丿蹖丿蹖 乇賵卮賳賮讴乇丕賳賴 賵 毓賲蹖賯 亘賴 夭賳丿诏蹖 丿丕卮鬲賴 亘丕卮賴貙 丨鬲賲丕賸 亘丕蹖丿 丕蹖賳 丿蹖丿 鬲丕乇蹖讴 賵 鬲賱禺 亘丕卮賴. 賲丕乇讴夭 賳卮賵賳 賲蹖丿賴 讴賴 賲蹖卮賴 亘丿賵賳 鬲賱禺 丕賳丿蹖卮蹖 賵 亘丿賵賳 丿倬乇爻 讴乇丿賳 禺賵丕賳賳丿賴貙 丿蹖丿蹖 毓賲蹖賯 - 賵 夭蹖亘丕 - 亘賴 夭賳丿诏蹖 丿丕卮鬲. 鬲丕 噩丕蹖蹖 讴賴 丨鬲丕 賵賯鬲蹖 丕夭 賵丨卮鬲 丕夭 賲乇诏 爻禺賳 賲蹖诏賴貙 卮賲丕 乇賵 亘丕 卮蹖乇蹖賳 鬲乇蹖賳 賵 乇賳诏丕乇賳诏 鬲乇蹖賳 乇丐蹖丕賴丕 乇賵 亘賴 乇賵 賲蹖讴賳賴.
乇賲丕賳 乇賵 賲蹖鬲賵賳蹖丿 丕夭 丕蹖賳噩丕 丿丕賳賱賵丿 讴賳蹖丿:
October 7, 2022
For his 90th birthday, a man wants to sleep with a young virgin. But, unfortunately, the brothel he has already frequented offers him a 14-year-old girl.
The plot is cash; I would even say trash. But, on the other hand, it is a concise book and reads very quickly - nothing to be ecstatic about in front of this book.
The plot is cash; I would even say trash. But, on the other hand, it is a concise book and reads very quickly - nothing to be ecstatic about in front of this book.
November 8, 2021
Reading Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez, known as "Gabo" to his friends, is like visiting a loveable rogue.
We all know the type: a little too loud, profane to the point of creating cringes in his followers, laughing at all the wrong jokes - most of them told himself, drinking too much, with a wild and flamboyant reputation, and yet all around him are rolled eyes and smiles and laughter. For this lover of life, for this fornicator of all things human, yet with a piety whose sincerity is questioned again and again and over and again found intact, this trickster god; we are willing to forgive and forgive and forget and laugh and smile. He is a devil, but he is our devil.
Gabo is to Latin American literature as Harry Caray was to Cubs fans.
So, we come to his 2004 novella Memories of My Melancholy Whores. Published when he was 77, this tells the story of an old bachelor journalist who, a frequenter of brothels and a customer of prostitutes for decades, on the eve of his 90th birthday arranges to meet a 14-year-old virgin prostitute.
Now, I lost some of you right there. But wait.
Many of you have read my review of Nabokov鈥檚 Lolita. His 1955 novel, brilliantly written, is about pedophilia. It is. It鈥檚 a wonderful book of literature with an outrageously unrepentant subject. Many will never know the genius poured into every page because they cannot, and understandably so, get past the story and its monster narrator.
This is not Lolita.
Yes, our protagonist makes this arrangement and has as such his intent. But then something else happens.
I have been accused before of spoilers in my reviews and for this I apologize and here I will be extra cautious because I do not want the readers of this exceptional short work, and I want to encourage its reading, to miss out on the fragile blooming flower that occurs in the brief telling.
Yes, there is an outrageous subject, and yes this represents a real-life crime whose real-life victims are young girls who should be protected. It does not make this subject more palatable that M谩rquez uses his charming mastery of language and of his description of his great love for life. But what he describes is not sex with a child.
I cannot say more except that M谩rquez has, in his own mischievous way, given us a glimpse into a love that is timeless and a hope that even into old age, we can continue to greet each sunrise with a wink and a nod, a song and even a dance. And love.
We all know the type: a little too loud, profane to the point of creating cringes in his followers, laughing at all the wrong jokes - most of them told himself, drinking too much, with a wild and flamboyant reputation, and yet all around him are rolled eyes and smiles and laughter. For this lover of life, for this fornicator of all things human, yet with a piety whose sincerity is questioned again and again and over and again found intact, this trickster god; we are willing to forgive and forgive and forget and laugh and smile. He is a devil, but he is our devil.
Gabo is to Latin American literature as Harry Caray was to Cubs fans.
So, we come to his 2004 novella Memories of My Melancholy Whores. Published when he was 77, this tells the story of an old bachelor journalist who, a frequenter of brothels and a customer of prostitutes for decades, on the eve of his 90th birthday arranges to meet a 14-year-old virgin prostitute.
Now, I lost some of you right there. But wait.
Many of you have read my review of Nabokov鈥檚 Lolita. His 1955 novel, brilliantly written, is about pedophilia. It is. It鈥檚 a wonderful book of literature with an outrageously unrepentant subject. Many will never know the genius poured into every page because they cannot, and understandably so, get past the story and its monster narrator.
This is not Lolita.
Yes, our protagonist makes this arrangement and has as such his intent. But then something else happens.
I have been accused before of spoilers in my reviews and for this I apologize and here I will be extra cautious because I do not want the readers of this exceptional short work, and I want to encourage its reading, to miss out on the fragile blooming flower that occurs in the brief telling.
Yes, there is an outrageous subject, and yes this represents a real-life crime whose real-life victims are young girls who should be protected. It does not make this subject more palatable that M谩rquez uses his charming mastery of language and of his description of his great love for life. But what he describes is not sex with a child.
I cannot say more except that M谩rquez has, in his own mischievous way, given us a glimpse into a love that is timeless and a hope that even into old age, we can continue to greet each sunrise with a wink and a nod, a song and even a dance. And love.
March 8, 2025
(B+) 77% | Good
Notes: Wherein love is blind, undefined, limitless potential, but also illusion, addiction, delusion and capriciously torrential.
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Notes: Wherein love is blind, undefined, limitless potential, but also illusion, addiction, delusion and capriciously torrential.
*Check out progress updates for detailed commentary:
October 25, 2017
Espa帽ol - English
Este se帽or sin nombre nunca se ha enamorado, pero s铆 ha tenido mucho sexo casual, casi siempre con prostitutas. Mantiene una larga relaci贸n de negocios con la due帽a del prost铆bulo que frecuenta. Es por esto que en la v铆spera de sus noventa a帽os la llama y le solicita algo inusual: quiere celebrar su cumplea帽os con una jovencita que sea virgen.
Nunca se ha casado ni ha hecho grandes cambios en su vida: vive en la casa de su familia donde se cri贸 y tiene su trabajo de publicar una columna en el peri贸dico dominical desde hace d茅cadas. Debido a la escasez de dinero su vida es cada vez m谩s precaria. Ha vendido casi todo lo vendible de su otrora buena bonanza familiar y termina sus d铆as siendo realmente pobre.
Cuando conoce a su joven virgen ella est谩 dormida y as铆 es siempre porque la drogan un poco para que le sea m谩s f谩cil perder la virginidad. En alg煤n momento ella entre sue帽os le responde algo y 茅l se da cuenta que la prefiere dormida. El se enamora de la joven que 茅l llama Delgadina, pero de la que nunca conoce su nombre. Y este amor plat贸nico lo hace hacer cosas que nunca ha hecho o se ha resistido hacer, c贸mo cambiar los temas que trata en sus publicaciones y en unos meses que se dejan de ver, desesperado la busca en bicicleta en todos los sitios donde cree poder encontrarla.
Sinceramente creo esta novela solo fue publicada porque la escribi贸 Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez.
鉁ㄢ湪鉁�
This man without name has never fallen in love, but he has had a lot of casual sex, almost always with prostitutes. He maintains a long business relationship with the owner of the brothel he frequents. That is why on the eve of his ninety years he calls her and asks for something unusual: he wants to celebrate his birthday with a young virgin.
He has never married or made any big changes in his life: he lives in his family's home where he grew up and has his job as a writer of a column in the Sunday newspaper for decades. Due to the shortage of money his life is becoming more precarious. He has sold almost everything marketable of his once good family bonanza and ends his days being really poor.
When he meets his young virgin she is asleep and is always like that because the brothel's owner drug her a little to make it easier for her to lose her virginity. At some point she between dreams responds something and he realizes that he prefers her sleeping. He falls in love with the girl he calls Delgadina, but he never knows her name. And this platonic love makes him do things that he has never done or has resisted doing, like change the themes in his publications and in a few months that he is not seeing her, desperate he would ride a bike and look for her in all the places where he thinks he can find her.
I sincerely believe this novella was only published because it was written by Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez.
Este se帽or sin nombre nunca se ha enamorado, pero s铆 ha tenido mucho sexo casual, casi siempre con prostitutas. Mantiene una larga relaci贸n de negocios con la due帽a del prost铆bulo que frecuenta. Es por esto que en la v铆spera de sus noventa a帽os la llama y le solicita algo inusual: quiere celebrar su cumplea帽os con una jovencita que sea virgen.
Nunca se ha casado ni ha hecho grandes cambios en su vida: vive en la casa de su familia donde se cri贸 y tiene su trabajo de publicar una columna en el peri贸dico dominical desde hace d茅cadas. Debido a la escasez de dinero su vida es cada vez m谩s precaria. Ha vendido casi todo lo vendible de su otrora buena bonanza familiar y termina sus d铆as siendo realmente pobre.
Cuando conoce a su joven virgen ella est谩 dormida y as铆 es siempre porque la drogan un poco para que le sea m谩s f谩cil perder la virginidad. En alg煤n momento ella entre sue帽os le responde algo y 茅l se da cuenta que la prefiere dormida. El se enamora de la joven que 茅l llama Delgadina, pero de la que nunca conoce su nombre. Y este amor plat贸nico lo hace hacer cosas que nunca ha hecho o se ha resistido hacer, c贸mo cambiar los temas que trata en sus publicaciones y en unos meses que se dejan de ver, desesperado la busca en bicicleta en todos los sitios donde cree poder encontrarla.
Sinceramente creo esta novela solo fue publicada porque la escribi贸 Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez.
鉁ㄢ湪鉁�
This man without name has never fallen in love, but he has had a lot of casual sex, almost always with prostitutes. He maintains a long business relationship with the owner of the brothel he frequents. That is why on the eve of his ninety years he calls her and asks for something unusual: he wants to celebrate his birthday with a young virgin.
He has never married or made any big changes in his life: he lives in his family's home where he grew up and has his job as a writer of a column in the Sunday newspaper for decades. Due to the shortage of money his life is becoming more precarious. He has sold almost everything marketable of his once good family bonanza and ends his days being really poor.
When he meets his young virgin she is asleep and is always like that because the brothel's owner drug her a little to make it easier for her to lose her virginity. At some point she between dreams responds something and he realizes that he prefers her sleeping. He falls in love with the girl he calls Delgadina, but he never knows her name. And this platonic love makes him do things that he has never done or has resisted doing, like change the themes in his publications and in a few months that he is not seeing her, desperate he would ride a bike and look for her in all the places where he thinks he can find her.
I sincerely believe this novella was only published because it was written by Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez.
December 13, 2019
Immortified
I鈥檝e wondered for a long time how to talk to you about this. How to explain myself, if such a thing is necessary or possible. Should I even bother? Would you understand? Will you be able to see things from my point of view? Could you find it in your heart to forgive me?
Ironically, perhaps, if you believe in God, the Holy Spirit, then you might be more likely to understand me and therefore to forgive.
My desire is not so much that you understand what I have done. It鈥檚 more important that you understand who or what I am. Therein lies the path to forgiveness. It depends on understanding me, my nature, not what I do.
Perhaps, you have already reached the point where you don鈥檛 want to understand or listen to me? Anyway, I will begin my explanation now.
I have had to live with myself for 91 years. During almost every day that I can remember, I have asked myself the same questions: who am I? What am I? Perhaps you have asked yourself the same things?
Every day, I have looked at my body, I have scrutinized my mind, and I have thought that this is not the real me. I am something different.
The best way to explain this is to say, in the simplest way possible, that I am my soul. I am not my body, I am not my mind, I am my soul. I am separate from them.
Before this body and this mind, I resided in other bodies and minds. I have no way of telling how many or for how long. These things are not revealed to our souls. However, I feel confident that there have been many. Speaking to my friends and comparing pasts, I have resolved that I, my soul, am at least 5,394 years old. Sometimes I wonder why I am not older.
I鈥檝e transitioned 15 times that I know of. It fascinates me whether the body or the mind will succumb first, but usually the time between deaths is not long. It doesn't really matter. The important thing is to be close to another carrier, so that I can embark on the next stage of my journey.
With all due modesty, I鈥檝e inhabited some pretty special humans, some merely from the point of view of their minds, some from the point of view of their bodies.
Still, it鈥檚 difficult for a soul to relate to a mind or a body.
Bodies, in particular, seem to be driven by DNA. They want to fuck all the time. When they鈥檙e not fucking, they鈥檙e thinking about fucking. Well, in that case, their minds are thinking about fucking. At least, that鈥檚 a pretty fair description of the males I鈥檝e inhabited. The females aren鈥檛 as bad, but, to be honest, they鈥檙e not that much better. Certainly they鈥檙e not as virtuous as they would have you believe.
I鈥檓 90, almost 91 now, in body years. Ironically, Delgadina is only fourteen. I say ironically, because in soul years, she is older than me, not by much, she鈥檚 5,678 years old. She鈥檚 had almost four extra earth experiences than I have. Nineteen versus fifteen mightn鈥檛 sound like much, but you鈥檇 be surprised.
The strange thing is that our soul age counts for nothing on earth. No matter how religious somebody might be, they still judge us by our body age, not the age of our mind or our soul.
Even though Delgadina is technically an adult at age fourteen, people still think of her as a child. Little do they know, her mind is superior to mine. Just because she speaks less than I do, doesn鈥檛 mean that she is dumber. In our most recent life before this one, she topped our college in her last year. Sometimes, for her own benefit, I wish she would speak out more in this life, so people appreciated her mind, not just her body. Perhaps, that will come with time. I'm already teaching her to read, write and paint.
We almost didn鈥檛 meet in this life. In the last, we had actually been married, but only in our seventies. She had enjoyed a long marriage. I had remained faithful, well, as best I could after 622 lovers. So many of them had been whores, but they were still women, all of them. Delgadina was determined to find out what it had been like to be one of my whores. She knew me well enough, after four earth relationships, to know that the best way to get my undivided attention was to manifest herself as a fourteen year old girl.
I didn鈥檛 recognise her at first. She was promised to me. Well, her virginity was. Several times, we went through a ritual whereby I was supposed to deflower her. Each time, I slept next to her, and did nothing but caress her or kiss each centimeter of her body. It was as if my 90 year old body wasn鈥檛 up to the task, whatever the capacity of my mind, let alone my soul. I even began to question myself, which was a first for me.
People judge me as if I have done something wrong. Sometimes I wonder if they imagine that I have done only what they would like to have done, or in Delgadina鈥檚 position, might have wanted me to do to them.
I wonder whether these people know what it means to be a soul. To be condemned to live forever (although is it really such a condemnation?). To wander from body to body in search of another soul. To, at last, find a soul to whom you can relate, let alone, in my case, one who coincidentally I have loved before.
These are things that mean something to you in eternity. True love. Not whether one of you is 90 or 14. These are just numbers. Notches. Hands that move in a circular fashion around the watch face of time. They mean nothing to someone, to two lovers, like us, whose soul lives have already lasted almost six millennia and show no signs of giving up.
When I think of Delgadina, I don鈥檛 think of her legs, her breasts, her lips, even her mind, these things that somehow I have touched or kissed. Instead, I think of her soul. Meanwhile, she smiles when she thinks of how much more experience of life she has had than me. If only I could die now and start another life ahead of her. But, vain man that I am, I have resolved that, in this life at least, I want to see out a century. It comforts me that, when I lie awake in bed, sometimes I can derive some pleasure from observing her naked, legs apart, breasts spread across her chest, dreaming of me, her 90 year old stallion.
Playboy Seeks Sex Toy
The more I read Marquez' post-Nobel Prize works, the more I'm convinced that his modus operandi is to invent characters and situations that will outrage many, if not most, readers.
Here, a sexually-active nonagenarian is offered a fledgling 14 year old virgin whore to celebrate his birthday.
Whether or not he deflowers the girl, whether or not he might only have watched the girl sleeping, he would be condemned by the reader. Society objects not just to the act, but to both the desire and the intention.
The problem is that Marquez employs beautiful language in his enterprise.
In fact, I've always suspected that, as I suspect of Nabokov, he writes a straightforward tale of love and sex, then, only then, twists or perverts it, by adding an element of the forbidden, the taboo, the immoral, the illegal.
Without the perversion, it would be a work of beauty. What happens when he tweaks the ages of the participants? Would a story of love and sex involving a 40 year old male and a 30 year old female be acceptable? Well, what happens when the age of the male is dialled up to 90 and the girl down to 14?
Something in our minds registers, this should not be happening, something is wrong.
Marquez might not explicitly ask, why is it wrong. He might not be expressly challenging morality. It exists, whether we like it or not.
However, I think he is asking us whether, as a work of art, it is any less beautiful because it is transgressive.
Part of what he is doing is questioning the aesthetic nature of transgression.
The novel is inspired by Kawabata's "House of the Sleeping Beauties", which I hadn't read when I read this novel.
In the epigraph from that book, old Eguchi is warned by the madam not to do anything in bad taste. The specific caveat is not to "put his finger into the mouth of the sleeping girl".
Different things are forbidden at different times and in different cultures.
The act of writing the novel doesn't mean that Marquez advocates child abuse in real life. He just wants to ask these questions and explore these issues within the realm of art.
Again, like Nabokov, he wants to treat art and literature as a playground. He wants to explore not just desire and intention, but the imagination as well.
By doing so, he asks of the reader that we suspend moral judgment and engage pure aesthetic judgment. Not all of us will want to, not all of us will be able to.
In this way, he doesn't just confront us with his subject matter, he confronts us with our own temperaments. He utilises the response of the reader as part of his creative enterprise.
His works are all the greater, because they involve and implicate us.
VERSE:
Angels Surround the Bed of Delgadina
Let us share a bed.
You can sleep if you need to.
I'm content to watch.
Breathless
I kissed your body.
I inhaled your wild fragrance.
It made me breathless.
Dear Girl
I'll write words for you.
"We are alone in the world."
I'll teach you to read.
The Abominable No-Man
It does more damage
For authors to write in chains
Than to write freely.
SOUNDTRACK:
Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Title Sequence)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - "Breathless"
I鈥檝e wondered for a long time how to talk to you about this. How to explain myself, if such a thing is necessary or possible. Should I even bother? Would you understand? Will you be able to see things from my point of view? Could you find it in your heart to forgive me?
Ironically, perhaps, if you believe in God, the Holy Spirit, then you might be more likely to understand me and therefore to forgive.
My desire is not so much that you understand what I have done. It鈥檚 more important that you understand who or what I am. Therein lies the path to forgiveness. It depends on understanding me, my nature, not what I do.
Perhaps, you have already reached the point where you don鈥檛 want to understand or listen to me? Anyway, I will begin my explanation now.
I have had to live with myself for 91 years. During almost every day that I can remember, I have asked myself the same questions: who am I? What am I? Perhaps you have asked yourself the same things?
Every day, I have looked at my body, I have scrutinized my mind, and I have thought that this is not the real me. I am something different.
The best way to explain this is to say, in the simplest way possible, that I am my soul. I am not my body, I am not my mind, I am my soul. I am separate from them.
Before this body and this mind, I resided in other bodies and minds. I have no way of telling how many or for how long. These things are not revealed to our souls. However, I feel confident that there have been many. Speaking to my friends and comparing pasts, I have resolved that I, my soul, am at least 5,394 years old. Sometimes I wonder why I am not older.
I鈥檝e transitioned 15 times that I know of. It fascinates me whether the body or the mind will succumb first, but usually the time between deaths is not long. It doesn't really matter. The important thing is to be close to another carrier, so that I can embark on the next stage of my journey.
With all due modesty, I鈥檝e inhabited some pretty special humans, some merely from the point of view of their minds, some from the point of view of their bodies.
Still, it鈥檚 difficult for a soul to relate to a mind or a body.
Bodies, in particular, seem to be driven by DNA. They want to fuck all the time. When they鈥檙e not fucking, they鈥檙e thinking about fucking. Well, in that case, their minds are thinking about fucking. At least, that鈥檚 a pretty fair description of the males I鈥檝e inhabited. The females aren鈥檛 as bad, but, to be honest, they鈥檙e not that much better. Certainly they鈥檙e not as virtuous as they would have you believe.
I鈥檓 90, almost 91 now, in body years. Ironically, Delgadina is only fourteen. I say ironically, because in soul years, she is older than me, not by much, she鈥檚 5,678 years old. She鈥檚 had almost four extra earth experiences than I have. Nineteen versus fifteen mightn鈥檛 sound like much, but you鈥檇 be surprised.
The strange thing is that our soul age counts for nothing on earth. No matter how religious somebody might be, they still judge us by our body age, not the age of our mind or our soul.
Even though Delgadina is technically an adult at age fourteen, people still think of her as a child. Little do they know, her mind is superior to mine. Just because she speaks less than I do, doesn鈥檛 mean that she is dumber. In our most recent life before this one, she topped our college in her last year. Sometimes, for her own benefit, I wish she would speak out more in this life, so people appreciated her mind, not just her body. Perhaps, that will come with time. I'm already teaching her to read, write and paint.
We almost didn鈥檛 meet in this life. In the last, we had actually been married, but only in our seventies. She had enjoyed a long marriage. I had remained faithful, well, as best I could after 622 lovers. So many of them had been whores, but they were still women, all of them. Delgadina was determined to find out what it had been like to be one of my whores. She knew me well enough, after four earth relationships, to know that the best way to get my undivided attention was to manifest herself as a fourteen year old girl.
I didn鈥檛 recognise her at first. She was promised to me. Well, her virginity was. Several times, we went through a ritual whereby I was supposed to deflower her. Each time, I slept next to her, and did nothing but caress her or kiss each centimeter of her body. It was as if my 90 year old body wasn鈥檛 up to the task, whatever the capacity of my mind, let alone my soul. I even began to question myself, which was a first for me.
People judge me as if I have done something wrong. Sometimes I wonder if they imagine that I have done only what they would like to have done, or in Delgadina鈥檚 position, might have wanted me to do to them.
I wonder whether these people know what it means to be a soul. To be condemned to live forever (although is it really such a condemnation?). To wander from body to body in search of another soul. To, at last, find a soul to whom you can relate, let alone, in my case, one who coincidentally I have loved before.
These are things that mean something to you in eternity. True love. Not whether one of you is 90 or 14. These are just numbers. Notches. Hands that move in a circular fashion around the watch face of time. They mean nothing to someone, to two lovers, like us, whose soul lives have already lasted almost six millennia and show no signs of giving up.
When I think of Delgadina, I don鈥檛 think of her legs, her breasts, her lips, even her mind, these things that somehow I have touched or kissed. Instead, I think of her soul. Meanwhile, she smiles when she thinks of how much more experience of life she has had than me. If only I could die now and start another life ahead of her. But, vain man that I am, I have resolved that, in this life at least, I want to see out a century. It comforts me that, when I lie awake in bed, sometimes I can derive some pleasure from observing her naked, legs apart, breasts spread across her chest, dreaming of me, her 90 year old stallion.
Playboy Seeks Sex Toy
The more I read Marquez' post-Nobel Prize works, the more I'm convinced that his modus operandi is to invent characters and situations that will outrage many, if not most, readers.
Here, a sexually-active nonagenarian is offered a fledgling 14 year old virgin whore to celebrate his birthday.
Whether or not he deflowers the girl, whether or not he might only have watched the girl sleeping, he would be condemned by the reader. Society objects not just to the act, but to both the desire and the intention.
The problem is that Marquez employs beautiful language in his enterprise.
In fact, I've always suspected that, as I suspect of Nabokov, he writes a straightforward tale of love and sex, then, only then, twists or perverts it, by adding an element of the forbidden, the taboo, the immoral, the illegal.
Without the perversion, it would be a work of beauty. What happens when he tweaks the ages of the participants? Would a story of love and sex involving a 40 year old male and a 30 year old female be acceptable? Well, what happens when the age of the male is dialled up to 90 and the girl down to 14?
Something in our minds registers, this should not be happening, something is wrong.
Marquez might not explicitly ask, why is it wrong. He might not be expressly challenging morality. It exists, whether we like it or not.
However, I think he is asking us whether, as a work of art, it is any less beautiful because it is transgressive.
Part of what he is doing is questioning the aesthetic nature of transgression.
The novel is inspired by Kawabata's "House of the Sleeping Beauties", which I hadn't read when I read this novel.
In the epigraph from that book, old Eguchi is warned by the madam not to do anything in bad taste. The specific caveat is not to "put his finger into the mouth of the sleeping girl".
Different things are forbidden at different times and in different cultures.
The act of writing the novel doesn't mean that Marquez advocates child abuse in real life. He just wants to ask these questions and explore these issues within the realm of art.
Again, like Nabokov, he wants to treat art and literature as a playground. He wants to explore not just desire and intention, but the imagination as well.
By doing so, he asks of the reader that we suspend moral judgment and engage pure aesthetic judgment. Not all of us will want to, not all of us will be able to.
In this way, he doesn't just confront us with his subject matter, he confronts us with our own temperaments. He utilises the response of the reader as part of his creative enterprise.
His works are all the greater, because they involve and implicate us.
VERSE:
Angels Surround the Bed of Delgadina
Let us share a bed.
You can sleep if you need to.
I'm content to watch.
Breathless
I kissed your body.
I inhaled your wild fragrance.
It made me breathless.
Dear Girl
I'll write words for you.
"We are alone in the world."
I'll teach you to read.
The Abominable No-Man
It does more damage
For authors to write in chains
Than to write freely.
SOUNDTRACK:
Memories of My Melancholy Whores (Title Sequence)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - "Breathless"
May 4, 2012
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February 15, 2024
"禺丕胤乇丕鬲 丿賱亘乇賰丕賳 睾賲诏賷賳 賲賳"賷丕"乇賵爻倬賷丕賳 爻賵丿丕 夭丿賴 賲賳 "丿丕爻鬲丕賳 卮乇賵毓 丿賵亘丕乇賴 夭賳丿诏賶 丕爻鬲貨丌賳噩丕 賰賴 倬賷乇賲乇丿 乇賵夭賳丕賲賴 賳诏丕乇 賵乇丕賵賶 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丿乇 丌睾丕夭 丿賴賴 丿賴賲 丕夭 夭賳丿诏賶 禺賵賷卮 賲賷禺賵丕賴丿 亘丕 丿禺鬲乇賰賶 賳賵噩賵丕賳 賵亘丕賰乇賴 卮亘賶 乇丕 亘賴 賷丕丿 噩賵丕賳賶 賵 賱匕鬲 賴丕賶 亘賷卮鬲乇 丿賵乇丕賳 夭賳丿诏賶 禺賵賷卮貙禺賵卮 亘诏匕乇丕賳丿貙丕賲丕 賳丕诏賴丕賳 毓卮賯 丿乇 賯丕賱亘 趩賴乇賴 賲丨夭賵賳 賵丕賳丿丕賲 賵噩丕賳 禺賮鬲賴 丿禺鬲乇賰 亘賴 賲卮丕亘賴 噩賳賵賳 賲丨囟 噩賱賵賴 賲賶 賰賳丿 賵 丿诏乇诏賵賳賶 丿乇 丿乇賵賳 賵 乇賵丨 倬賷乇賲乇丿 丌睾丕夭 賲賶 卮賵丿貙夭禺賲 夭賳丿诏賶 賵丨爻乇鬲 毓賲乇 乇賮鬲賴 乇丕 丿乇 賳亘賵丿 毓卮賯 丿乇 賲賶 賷丕亘丿 賵 亘賴 鬲睾賷乇乇 賵丕賴鬲賲丕賲 賰丕乇賴丕 賵丕賲賵乇 禺賵亘卮 賲賶 倬乇丿丕夭丿丕賲丕 丕賷賳 賷丕丿 賵 禺丕胤乇賴 賵 禺賷丕賱 丨囟賵乇 丿禺鬲乇賰 丿乇 賰賳丕乇 禺賵丿 丕爻鬲 賰賴 卮賵賯 賵丕賲賷丿 賵 卮賵乇 夭賳丿诏賶 乇丕 丿乇 乇賵丨 賵賰丕賱亘丿 乇丕賵賶 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 亘賷丿丕乇 賲賶 賰賳丿貙丌賳噩丕 賰賴 丿乇 賳亘賵丿 賵賮乇丕賯 丿賱亘乇賰 禺賵丿 賲賶 诏賵賷丿貨
"丨賲丕賲 賳賲賶 诏乇賮鬲賲貙乇賷卮 賴丕賷賲 乇丕 賳賲賶 鬲乇丕卮賷丿賲 賵丿賳丿丕賳 賴丕賷賲 乇丕 賲爻賵丕賰 賳賲賶 夭丿賲貙趩賵賳 毓卮賯 禺賷賱賶 丿賷乇 亘賴 賲賳 丌賲賵禺鬲 賰賴 丌丿賲 禺賵丿卮 乇丕 亘乇丕賶 賰爻賶 賲乇鬲亘 賲賶 賰賳丿貙亘乇丕賶 賰爻賶 賱亘丕爻 賲賶 倬賵卮丿 賵亘乇丕賶 賰爻賶 毓胤乇 賲賶 夭賳丿 賵賲賳 賴賷趩 賵賯鬲 賰爻賶 乇丕 賳丿丕卮鬲賲"
鬲乇噩賲賴 丌禺乇賷賳 丕孬乇 丿丕爻鬲丕賳賶 诏丕亘賵 亘夭乇诏 賰賴 亘禺丕胤乇 鬲賵氐賷賮 賵 亘賷丕賳 氐丨賳賴 賴丕賶 噩賳爻賶 丿乇 丕賷乇丕賳 亘賴 氐賵乇鬲 賯丕賳賵賳賷 亘乇丕賶 丕賵賱賷賳 賵丌禺乇賷賳 亘丕乇 丿乇 丿賴賴侉贍 趩丕倬 賵毓乇囟賴 卮丿 丨賰丕賷鬲 賵亘賷丕賳 鬲賲孬賷賱 "賴乇诏夭 亘乇丕賶 亘乇丕賶 卮乇賵毓賶 丿賵亘丕乇賴 丿賷乇 賳賷爻鬲"賲賶 亘丕卮丿 丨鬲賶 丕诏乇 丕賳锟斤拷丕賳 賳夭丿賷賰 亘賴 賷賰 賯乇賳 夭賳丿诏賶 賵毓賲乇 夭賷爻鬲賴 乇丕 亘賴 亘胤丕賱鬲 賵 乇賵夭賲乇诏賶 亘诏匕乇丕賳丿貙爻賳 賵毓賲乇賶 賰賴 诏賵賷丕 丿乇 賰鬲丕亘 賴丕賶 賵丕孬乇賴丕賶 丿賷诏乇 丕賷賳 賳賵賷爻賳丿賴 亘夭乇诏 賯乇賳 亘賷爻鬲賲 賲丕賳賳丿"禺夭丕賳 禺賵丿賰丕賲賴"丨丕賱鬲 噩丕賵丿丕賳诏賶 賵胤賵賱丕賳賶 丿丕乇丿 賵 丿乇噩丕賷賷 賴賲 丕夭 丕賷賳 乇賲丕賳 爻賳 乇丕 丕賷賳 趩賳賷賳 鬲毓乇賷賮 賵鬲賵氐賷賮 賲賶 賰賳丿貙
"爻賳 丕賵賳 趩賷夭賶 賳賷爻鬲 賰賴 丌丿賲 丿丕乇賴貙丕賵賳賴 賰賴 丌丿賲 丨爻 賲賶 賰賳賴"
倬.賳:丕夭 丕賷賳 賰鬲丕亘 亘睾賷乇 丕夭 鬲乇噩賲賴 賳爻禺賴 趩丕倬賶 噩賳丕亘 賲賷乇毓亘丕爻賶 賰賴 丕賳丿賰賶 丿趩丕乇 爻丕賳爻賵乇 賵丨匕賮賷丕鬲 丕爻鬲 趩賳丿 鬲乇噩賲賴 亘賴 氐賵乇鬲 丕賰鬲乇賵賳賷賰賶 賲賵噩賵丿 丕爻鬲 賰賴 鬲乇噩賲賴 噩賳丕亘 丕賲賷乇 丨爻賷賳 賮胤丕賳鬲 賰丕賲賱 賵亘丿賵賳 爻丕賳爻賵乇 毓乇囟賴 卮丿賴 丕爻鬲.
"丨賲丕賲 賳賲賶 诏乇賮鬲賲貙乇賷卮 賴丕賷賲 乇丕 賳賲賶 鬲乇丕卮賷丿賲 賵丿賳丿丕賳 賴丕賷賲 乇丕 賲爻賵丕賰 賳賲賶 夭丿賲貙趩賵賳 毓卮賯 禺賷賱賶 丿賷乇 亘賴 賲賳 丌賲賵禺鬲 賰賴 丌丿賲 禺賵丿卮 乇丕 亘乇丕賶 賰爻賶 賲乇鬲亘 賲賶 賰賳丿貙亘乇丕賶 賰爻賶 賱亘丕爻 賲賶 倬賵卮丿 賵亘乇丕賶 賰爻賶 毓胤乇 賲賶 夭賳丿 賵賲賳 賴賷趩 賵賯鬲 賰爻賶 乇丕 賳丿丕卮鬲賲"
鬲乇噩賲賴 丌禺乇賷賳 丕孬乇 丿丕爻鬲丕賳賶 诏丕亘賵 亘夭乇诏 賰賴 亘禺丕胤乇 鬲賵氐賷賮 賵 亘賷丕賳 氐丨賳賴 賴丕賶 噩賳爻賶 丿乇 丕賷乇丕賳 亘賴 氐賵乇鬲 賯丕賳賵賳賷 亘乇丕賶 丕賵賱賷賳 賵丌禺乇賷賳 亘丕乇 丿乇 丿賴賴侉贍 趩丕倬 賵毓乇囟賴 卮丿 丨賰丕賷鬲 賵亘賷丕賳 鬲賲孬賷賱 "賴乇诏夭 亘乇丕賶 亘乇丕賶 卮乇賵毓賶 丿賵亘丕乇賴 丿賷乇 賳賷爻鬲"賲賶 亘丕卮丿 丨鬲賶 丕诏乇 丕賳锟斤拷丕賳 賳夭丿賷賰 亘賴 賷賰 賯乇賳 夭賳丿诏賶 賵毓賲乇 夭賷爻鬲賴 乇丕 亘賴 亘胤丕賱鬲 賵 乇賵夭賲乇诏賶 亘诏匕乇丕賳丿貙爻賳 賵毓賲乇賶 賰賴 诏賵賷丕 丿乇 賰鬲丕亘 賴丕賶 賵丕孬乇賴丕賶 丿賷诏乇 丕賷賳 賳賵賷爻賳丿賴 亘夭乇诏 賯乇賳 亘賷爻鬲賲 賲丕賳賳丿"禺夭丕賳 禺賵丿賰丕賲賴"丨丕賱鬲 噩丕賵丿丕賳诏賶 賵胤賵賱丕賳賶 丿丕乇丿 賵 丿乇噩丕賷賷 賴賲 丕夭 丕賷賳 乇賲丕賳 爻賳 乇丕 丕賷賳 趩賳賷賳 鬲毓乇賷賮 賵鬲賵氐賷賮 賲賶 賰賳丿貙
"爻賳 丕賵賳 趩賷夭賶 賳賷爻鬲 賰賴 丌丿賲 丿丕乇賴貙丕賵賳賴 賰賴 丌丿賲 丨爻 賲賶 賰賳賴"
倬.賳:丕夭 丕賷賳 賰鬲丕亘 亘睾賷乇 丕夭 鬲乇噩賲賴 賳爻禺賴 趩丕倬賶 噩賳丕亘 賲賷乇毓亘丕爻賶 賰賴 丕賳丿賰賶 丿趩丕乇 爻丕賳爻賵乇 賵丨匕賮賷丕鬲 丕爻鬲 趩賳丿 鬲乇噩賲賴 亘賴 氐賵乇鬲 丕賰鬲乇賵賳賷賰賶 賲賵噩賵丿 丕爻鬲 賰賴 鬲乇噩賲賴 噩賳丕亘 丕賲賷乇 丨爻賷賳 賮胤丕賳鬲 賰丕賲賱 賵亘丿賵賳 爻丕賳爻賵乇 毓乇囟賴 卮丿賴 丕爻鬲.
August 17, 2016
賰賳鬲 兀賯賵賱 丿賵賲賸丕 兀賳 孬賲丞 兀毓賲丕賱 賷丨氐賱 亘賷賳賴丕 賵亘賷賳 兀毓賲丕賱 兀禺乇賶 鬲賱丕賯賷 / 鬲賯丕乇亘 賲賳 丕賱兀賮賰丕乇 賱丕 兀鬲丨丿孬 毓賳 丕賱爻胤賵 賵丕賱爻乇賯丞 - 乇睾賲 賵噩賵丿 賴匕丕 丕賱卮賷亍 - 亘賱 兀鬲丨丿孬 毓賳 鬲賳丕睾賲 亘賷賳 賰鬲丕亘賷賳 亘胤乇賷賯丞 禺賮賷丞貙 兀賵 亘賵丕爻胤丞 廿賱賴丕賲 賲賳 賰鬲丕亘 爻丕亘賯 賷賳丕賯卮 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丕賱匕賷 亘賷賳 賷丿賷賰 賲孬賱賸賸丕貙 賵毓賳丿賲丕 賰鬲亘
賷丕爻賵賳丕乇賷 賰賵丕亘丕鬲丕 / Yasunari Kawabata
乇賵丕賷鬲賴 / : 賵丕賱鬲賷 賵氐賱鬲賳丕 亘鬲乇噩賲鬲賴丕 (丕賱噩賲賷賱丕鬲 丕賱賳丕卅賲丕鬲 / ) 賵賴賶 乇賵丕賷丞 睾乇賷亘丞 丕賱賲賵囟賵毓 賵兀毓鬲賯丿 丕賱睾乇丕亘丞 鬲賰賲賳 毓賳丿賷 賲賳 廿禺鬲賱丕賮 丕賱孬賯丕賮丕鬲 賱賷爻 兀賰孬乇. 兀賯賵賱 毓賳丿 鬲兀賱賷賮賴丕 "鬲賲賳賶 賲丕乇賰賷夭 賱賵 兀賳賴 賰鬲亘賴丕". 賱賴匕丕 賱丕 兀毓賱賲 兀噩丿 賮賰乇丞 丕賱噩賲賷賱丞 丕賱賳丕卅賲丞 毓賱賶 爻乇賷乇 賲賳 丨乇賷乇 賵賷亘賯賶 亘噩丕賳亘賴丕 匕賱賰 丕賱乇噩賱 丕賱胤丕毓賳 賮賷 丕賱爻賳 賷乇賯亘賴丕 胤賵丕賱 丕賱賵賯鬲 賵賮賷 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 鬲噩乇亘丞 兀噩丿賴丕 賲賯丕乇亘丞 賰亘賷乇丞 亘賷賳 丕賱毓賲賱 丕賱兀賵賱 賵毓賲賱 賲丕乇賰賷夭 (匕賰乇賷丕鬲 毓丕賴乇丕鬲賷 丕賱丨夭賷賳丞). 兀毓噩亘賳賷 丕賱毓賲賱 丕賱兀賵賱 丕賱賷丕亘丕賳賷 賱賷丕爻賵賳丕乇賷 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 毓賲賱 賲丕乇賰賷夭. 乇睾賲 丕亘丿丕毓 賲丕乇賰賷夭 賰毓丕丿鬲賴 賮賷 鬲賵賱賷丞 丕賱鬲賮丕氐賷賱 丕賱氐睾賷乇丞 卮兀賳 丿賵賳 丕賱廿睾乇丕賯 賮賷 丕賱賵氐賮.
賲丕乇賰賷夭 賷乇鬲亘胤 亘毓丕賴乇丕鬲賴 兀賵 亘賲賳 毓乇賮賴賲 賮賷 廿胤丕乇 毓賱丕賯丕鬲賴 賮賷 匕丕禺賱 匕丕賰乇鬲賴 賱賴匕賴 賷爻賴賱 毓賱賷賴 丿賵賲賸丕 廿毓丕丿丞 鬲匕賰乇賴賲 賮賷 賵丨丿鬲賴 丕賱鬲賷 賷禺亘乇賳丕 毓賳賴丕 賰孬賷乇賸丕貙 賵賷丨丕賵賱 廿毓胤丕亍 賯賷賲丞 丕賱丨賷丕丞 賵丕賱鬲賯丿賷爻 賱賱賲乇兀丞 賮賷 賴匕丕 丕賱毓賲賱..
亘賷賳賲丕 噩賲賷賱丕鬲 賷丕爻賵賳丕乇賷 賲賰丕賳鬲賴賲 毓賳丿賴 兀毓賲賯 賵兀噩賱 賵賴賵 賱丕 賷賮賰乇 丨鬲賶 賮賷 廿禺乇丕噩賴賲 賲賳 賲丨賷胤賴賲 丕賱賲賰丕賳賷貨 亘賱 丨鬲賶 丕賱賲爻丕爻 亘賴賳 卮賷亍 賲賳丕賮賷 賱賱匕賵賯 賰賲丕 鬲禺亘乇賳丕 亘匕賱賰 爻賷丿丞 丕賱禺丕賳 "廿賷噩賵卮賷" 丕賱鬲賷 爻鬲噩丿 賱賴丕 賲氐胤賱噩 賮賷 丕賱孬賯丕賮丞 丕賱毓乇亘賷丞 賷丨賲賱 丕爻賲 (賯賵丕丿丞) 賵賴賵 匕丕 丿賱丕賱丞 賲賳丕賮賷丞 賱賱賲卮乇賵毓. 丨丕賱鬲賷 丕賱乇賮囟 賮賷 丕賱毓乇亘賷丞 賵丕賱睾乇亘賷丞 賴賵 毓丿賲 丕賱賲爻丕爻. 賵賯賮鬲 賰孬賷乇賸丕 賵兀賳丕 丕鬲兀賲賱 丕賱乇賮囟 賵丨乇賯丞 丕賱乇睾亘丞 賮賷 丕賱賱賲爻.
賰賱丕 丕賱毓賲賱賷賳 賷禺賷賮丕賳 兀賷 賯丕乇卅 賵賯丕乇卅丞 賲賳 丕賱毓賲乇貙 賵賰賱丕賴賲丕 噩賲賷賱 賵賮丕鬲賳.
賷丕爻賵賳丕乇賷 賰賵丕亘丕鬲丕 / Yasunari Kawabata
乇賵丕賷鬲賴 / : 賵丕賱鬲賷 賵氐賱鬲賳丕 亘鬲乇噩賲鬲賴丕 (丕賱噩賲賷賱丕鬲 丕賱賳丕卅賲丕鬲 / ) 賵賴賶 乇賵丕賷丞 睾乇賷亘丞 丕賱賲賵囟賵毓 賵兀毓鬲賯丿 丕賱睾乇丕亘丞 鬲賰賲賳 毓賳丿賷 賲賳 廿禺鬲賱丕賮 丕賱孬賯丕賮丕鬲 賱賷爻 兀賰孬乇. 兀賯賵賱 毓賳丿 鬲兀賱賷賮賴丕 "鬲賲賳賶 賲丕乇賰賷夭 賱賵 兀賳賴 賰鬲亘賴丕". 賱賴匕丕 賱丕 兀毓賱賲 兀噩丿 賮賰乇丞 丕賱噩賲賷賱丞 丕賱賳丕卅賲丞 毓賱賶 爻乇賷乇 賲賳 丨乇賷乇 賵賷亘賯賶 亘噩丕賳亘賴丕 匕賱賰 丕賱乇噩賱 丕賱胤丕毓賳 賮賷 丕賱爻賳 賷乇賯亘賴丕 胤賵丕賱 丕賱賵賯鬲 賵賮賷 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 鬲噩乇亘丞 兀噩丿賴丕 賲賯丕乇亘丞 賰亘賷乇丞 亘賷賳 丕賱毓賲賱 丕賱兀賵賱 賵毓賲賱 賲丕乇賰賷夭 (匕賰乇賷丕鬲 毓丕賴乇丕鬲賷 丕賱丨夭賷賳丞). 兀毓噩亘賳賷 丕賱毓賲賱 丕賱兀賵賱 丕賱賷丕亘丕賳賷 賱賷丕爻賵賳丕乇賷 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 毓賲賱 賲丕乇賰賷夭. 乇睾賲 丕亘丿丕毓 賲丕乇賰賷夭 賰毓丕丿鬲賴 賮賷 鬲賵賱賷丞 丕賱鬲賮丕氐賷賱 丕賱氐睾賷乇丞 卮兀賳 丿賵賳 丕賱廿睾乇丕賯 賮賷 丕賱賵氐賮.
賲丕乇賰賷夭 賷乇鬲亘胤 亘毓丕賴乇丕鬲賴 兀賵 亘賲賳 毓乇賮賴賲 賮賷 廿胤丕乇 毓賱丕賯丕鬲賴 賮賷 匕丕禺賱 匕丕賰乇鬲賴 賱賴匕賴 賷爻賴賱 毓賱賷賴 丿賵賲賸丕 廿毓丕丿丞 鬲匕賰乇賴賲 賮賷 賵丨丿鬲賴 丕賱鬲賷 賷禺亘乇賳丕 毓賳賴丕 賰孬賷乇賸丕貙 賵賷丨丕賵賱 廿毓胤丕亍 賯賷賲丞 丕賱丨賷丕丞 賵丕賱鬲賯丿賷爻 賱賱賲乇兀丞 賮賷 賴匕丕 丕賱毓賲賱..
亘賷賳賲丕 噩賲賷賱丕鬲 賷丕爻賵賳丕乇賷 賲賰丕賳鬲賴賲 毓賳丿賴 兀毓賲賯 賵兀噩賱 賵賴賵 賱丕 賷賮賰乇 丨鬲賶 賮賷 廿禺乇丕噩賴賲 賲賳 賲丨賷胤賴賲 丕賱賲賰丕賳賷貨 亘賱 丨鬲賶 丕賱賲爻丕爻 亘賴賳 卮賷亍 賲賳丕賮賷 賱賱匕賵賯 賰賲丕 鬲禺亘乇賳丕 亘匕賱賰 爻賷丿丞 丕賱禺丕賳 "廿賷噩賵卮賷" 丕賱鬲賷 爻鬲噩丿 賱賴丕 賲氐胤賱噩 賮賷 丕賱孬賯丕賮丞 丕賱毓乇亘賷丞 賷丨賲賱 丕爻賲 (賯賵丕丿丞) 賵賴賵 匕丕 丿賱丕賱丞 賲賳丕賮賷丞 賱賱賲卮乇賵毓. 丨丕賱鬲賷 丕賱乇賮囟 賮賷 丕賱毓乇亘賷丞 賵丕賱睾乇亘賷丞 賴賵 毓丿賲 丕賱賲爻丕爻. 賵賯賮鬲 賰孬賷乇賸丕 賵兀賳丕 丕鬲兀賲賱 丕賱乇賮囟 賵丨乇賯丞 丕賱乇睾亘丞 賮賷 丕賱賱賲爻.
賰賱丕 丕賱毓賲賱賷賳 賷禺賷賮丕賳 兀賷 賯丕乇卅 賵賯丕乇卅丞 賲賳 丕賱毓賲乇貙 賵賰賱丕賴賲丕 噩賲賷賱 賵賮丕鬲賳.
October 28, 2022
鈥淚 would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.鈥�
The premise of Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores is distasteful. For his 90th birthday, the narrator procures the services of a 14-year old virgin. After only having had sex with whores, what he doesn't count on is falling in love with the young girl. As might be expected, but almost as disturbing, this love is equally twisted and disturbing. I'm not sure if Marquez achieved his objective in this work. Did he want to show the impossibility of real love after years of debauchery? Or living life to the fullest? Or simply the emptiness of life in general? It was difficult for me to figure that out, but it did have great writing and packed an emotional punch. 3.5 stars
The premise of Gabriel Garc铆a M谩rquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores is distasteful. For his 90th birthday, the narrator procures the services of a 14-year old virgin. After only having had sex with whores, what he doesn't count on is falling in love with the young girl. As might be expected, but almost as disturbing, this love is equally twisted and disturbing. I'm not sure if Marquez achieved his objective in this work. Did he want to show the impossibility of real love after years of debauchery? Or living life to the fullest? Or simply the emptiness of life in general? It was difficult for me to figure that out, but it did have great writing and packed an emotional punch. 3.5 stars
July 31, 2019
鬲賵蹖 匕賵賯賲 禺賵乇丿 賵 丿賵爻鬲卮 賳丿丕卮鬲賲: 倬蹖乇賲乇丿 賳賵丿 爻丕賱賴 賵 亘丕讴乇賴鈥屰� 郾鄞 爻丕賱賴! 丕诏賴 毓卮賯賴 趩乇丕 蹖讴 夭賳 賲蹖丕賳爻丕賱 蹖丕 丨鬲蹖 噩賵丕賳 (爻蹖 蹖丕 亘蹖爻鬲 爻丕賱賴) 賳亘丕卮賴責 丕诏賴 賲蹖鈥屫簇� 丕賲鬲蹖丕夭 賲賳賮蹖 丿丕丿 鬲乇丿蹖丿 賳賲蹖鈥屭┴必�!
May 6, 2014
"The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin. I'm ugly, shy and anachronistic. But by dint of not wanting to be those things I have pretended to be just the opposite. Until today, when I have resolved to tell of my own free will just what I'm like, if only to ease my conscience. The beginning of a new life at an age when most mortals have already died."
There is no subject in our society that is associated with more myths and misinformation than that of sexual intimacy and the elderly. This subject is often considered taboo and is relegated to derogatory humour. Some examples of the myths include:
- impotence is a natural consequence of ageing.
- sexual activity can be dangerous for the elderly.
- the sex drive or libido diminishes with advancing years for both men and women.
Sometimes, in the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.
"Sex at 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope" -- George Burns
The media usually portrays the elderly as nonsexual beings who have traded in physical prowess for greater mental clarity and wisdom. Recent research shows that as we get older, our senses of taste, smell, and sight diminish, and our capacity for strenuous activities and exertion decline. Naturally, our sexual sensations and the ability to perform sexually will modestly decline. But decline is not the end, right?
"Human sexual response may be slowed by the aging process, but it is certainly not terminated."
Whew! Am I glad to hear that!
Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a tale about romance in old age, enticingly sensual yet often tragic and sad. It is about an unnamed second-rate reporter who on the eve of his 90th birthday decides to give himself "a night of mad love with a virgin adolescent". As much as that statement may hit some in the face, and potentially raise questions about why you decided to read this book, one is soon drawn in to the lonely and disconnected life of this old man.
On his 90th birthday, the old man awakes, as always, at 5am in the morning:
Old Age
The old man has never fallen in love. He was close to marrying once, but it was a loveless union that he could not commit to. He had never gone to bed with a woman he didn't pay and the few who weren't in the profession, he persuaded to take money. At 20 he began to keep a record of his liaisons, listing name, age, place, and a brief notation on the circumstances and style of lovemaking. By the time he was 50 there were 514 women with whom he had been with, at least once.
While thinking back over his life, he is overcome by irresistible excitement and he calls Rosa Camarcas, the madam of the local whorehouse. She informs him that she knows precisely his desires and requests that he visit the whorehouse later that evening.
Freshly washed, dressed and pressed, he visits the whorehouse and is presented with a 14 year old adolescent. She is a seamstress who desperately needs additional funds to support her impoverished family. She is so anxious by events that Rosa has to give the girl a mixture of bromide and valerian to drink, so that by the time the old man sees her, she is asleep in the enormous bed for hire.
The old man soon falls madly in love, that first time, intense, giddy kind of love. He simply becomes another man and his eyes and soul are opened to the invincible power of unrequited love. It drives him crazy and he pours his feelings out in his local column. Soon his readers are living this life with him, many conversant with the feeling of being completely, hopelessly, desperately in love with someone, all the while knowing that their feelings will never reach them. It's like drowning but you just won't fucking die.
He begins to realise that all of his previous years with prostitutes have been wasted years.
This is a sparsely written yet beautiful novel, told touchingly from a first person perspective, by a man who has lived his life in isolation and lacks human affection. When he finally finds a connection at 90, which most of us are lucky to experience in youth, the reader is left with no choice but to acknowledge the possibility that truth and beauty may be found in the strangest of places and times.
The power of love is limitless and does not fit neatly into a box. It transforms people regardless of the conditions under which it comes into existence.
One thing this book did make me think about was where I'd be, who I'd be with, and the type of person I would be at 90. I love life and live it to the full and I want to stick around on this earth for as long as I possibly can. I want to be just like Betty White...out there, living life, brain intact, and a wit as quick as ever.
Betty White clips
The secret to successful aging is never retiring from life, always having a mission or a reason for living. And hey, if I can still enjoy the sexual pleasures of life at that age, then bring it on! :-).
Be sure to enjoy each day GR friends by staying active doing what you love to do. And, you may just live long enough to find out that many things will naturally take care of themselves.
4*/5
There is no subject in our society that is associated with more myths and misinformation than that of sexual intimacy and the elderly. This subject is often considered taboo and is relegated to derogatory humour. Some examples of the myths include:
- impotence is a natural consequence of ageing.
- sexual activity can be dangerous for the elderly.
- the sex drive or libido diminishes with advancing years for both men and women.
Sometimes, in the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.
"Sex at 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope" -- George Burns
The media usually portrays the elderly as nonsexual beings who have traded in physical prowess for greater mental clarity and wisdom. Recent research shows that as we get older, our senses of taste, smell, and sight diminish, and our capacity for strenuous activities and exertion decline. Naturally, our sexual sensations and the ability to perform sexually will modestly decline. But decline is not the end, right?
"Human sexual response may be slowed by the aging process, but it is certainly not terminated."
Whew! Am I glad to hear that!
Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a tale about romance in old age, enticingly sensual yet often tragic and sad. It is about an unnamed second-rate reporter who on the eve of his 90th birthday decides to give himself "a night of mad love with a virgin adolescent". As much as that statement may hit some in the face, and potentially raise questions about why you decided to read this book, one is soon drawn in to the lonely and disconnected life of this old man.
On his 90th birthday, the old man awakes, as always, at 5am in the morning:
"My symptoms at dawn were perfect for not feeling happy: my bones had been aching since the small hours, my asshole burned, and thunder threatened a storm after three months of drought."He settles down to write the day's column for the local newspaper and decides that the subject should indeed be his 90th birthday. He starts to think about his life and what it means to be old.
"The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside."
Old Age
The old man has never fallen in love. He was close to marrying once, but it was a loveless union that he could not commit to. He had never gone to bed with a woman he didn't pay and the few who weren't in the profession, he persuaded to take money. At 20 he began to keep a record of his liaisons, listing name, age, place, and a brief notation on the circumstances and style of lovemaking. By the time he was 50 there were 514 women with whom he had been with, at least once.
"I stopped making the list when my body no longer allowed me to have so many and I could keep track of them without paper."He had the tool of a galley slave and he slept in the red-light district two or three times a week. His claim to fame is that he'd been with such a variety of companions that he was twice crowned client of the year! *rolling my eyes*
While thinking back over his life, he is overcome by irresistible excitement and he calls Rosa Camarcas, the madam of the local whorehouse. She informs him that she knows precisely his desires and requests that he visit the whorehouse later that evening.
Freshly washed, dressed and pressed, he visits the whorehouse and is presented with a 14 year old adolescent. She is a seamstress who desperately needs additional funds to support her impoverished family. She is so anxious by events that Rosa has to give the girl a mixture of bromide and valerian to drink, so that by the time the old man sees her, she is asleep in the enormous bed for hire.
"I sat down to contemplate her from the edge of the bed, my five senses under a spell. A warm current travelled up my veins, and my slow, retired animal woke from its long sleep."But strangely, nothing happens.
"This was something new for me. I was ignorant of the arts of seduction and had always chosen my brides for a night at random, more for their price than their charms, and we made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were. That night I discovered the improbable pleasure of contemplating the body of a sleeping woman without the urgencies of desire or the obstacles of modesty."For a period of time the old man and the young girl meet. He calls her Delgadina, a girl in a song, and he brings her small gifts. Each time they meet they sleep side by side, with him mostly looking at and smelling her. Occasionally he kisses and caresses her tired young body as she snoozes. She doesn't speak with him; their intimacy is silent, tranquil.
The old man soon falls madly in love, that first time, intense, giddy kind of love. He simply becomes another man and his eyes and soul are opened to the invincible power of unrequited love. It drives him crazy and he pours his feelings out in his local column. Soon his readers are living this life with him, many conversant with the feeling of being completely, hopelessly, desperately in love with someone, all the while knowing that their feelings will never reach them. It's like drowning but you just won't fucking die.
He begins to realise that all of his previous years with prostitutes have been wasted years.
"Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love."
This is a sparsely written yet beautiful novel, told touchingly from a first person perspective, by a man who has lived his life in isolation and lacks human affection. When he finally finds a connection at 90, which most of us are lucky to experience in youth, the reader is left with no choice but to acknowledge the possibility that truth and beauty may be found in the strangest of places and times.
The power of love is limitless and does not fit neatly into a box. It transforms people regardless of the conditions under which it comes into existence.
One thing this book did make me think about was where I'd be, who I'd be with, and the type of person I would be at 90. I love life and live it to the full and I want to stick around on this earth for as long as I possibly can. I want to be just like Betty White...out there, living life, brain intact, and a wit as quick as ever.
Betty White clips
The secret to successful aging is never retiring from life, always having a mission or a reason for living. And hey, if I can still enjoy the sexual pleasures of life at that age, then bring it on! :-).
Be sure to enjoy each day GR friends by staying active doing what you love to do. And, you may just live long enough to find out that many things will naturally take care of themselves.
4*/5
October 19, 2019
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September 7, 2023
"Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love."
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Is this a novella about a ninety-year-old writer who is going to kick open the door to his 90s by sleeping with a 14-year-old prostitute? Yes. But also no. I'm not going to tell you if it happens or not. But it is as much about sex as . Perhaps, that is an incomplete or unfinished analogy. Both books do play around with the idea of sex and the transgressive idea of an older man and a nymph. But, really, the book is about love and getting old. It is about coming to grips with an aging body, surrounded by books, an adopted Angoran cat, classical music, his writing, and yes memories of melancholic whores. I liked it enough I'd recommend it to my wife, just not my mother or daughter.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Is this a novella about a ninety-year-old writer who is going to kick open the door to his 90s by sleeping with a 14-year-old prostitute? Yes. But also no. I'm not going to tell you if it happens or not. But it is as much about sex as . Perhaps, that is an incomplete or unfinished analogy. Both books do play around with the idea of sex and the transgressive idea of an older man and a nymph. But, really, the book is about love and getting old. It is about coming to grips with an aging body, surrounded by books, an adopted Angoran cat, classical music, his writing, and yes memories of melancholic whores. I liked it enough I'd recommend it to my wife, just not my mother or daughter.
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