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swanocean 's review for:
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
by Gabriel García Márquez
emotional
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I don't think it's a novel that has such an impact as the rest of Marquez's works but it is charming in its own peculiar way.
It follows the hero, a lonely journalist that avoids any commitments like a plague but has his own ethics, while he reaches his 90th birthday and finds, for the first time in his miserable life, love in the face of a 14 year old virgin Delgadrina. Actually we really don't know her true name as she was always asleep when he visited her. Now that I recall we don't even know the hero's name either as most of anyone who addressed him called him Teacher.
Anyway it sure has some deeper meanings like what is the meaning of life after all or insinuations about the perfect family or the ideal wife that doesn't bring any argument but as I said I don't believe it's known for making a bold statement to the world. It almost feels like a biography as he's portraying himself though if I remember correctly he was happily married from a young age and not in his 90s.
It follows the hero, a lonely journalist that avoids any commitments like a plague but has his own ethics, while he reaches his 90th birthday and finds, for the first time in his miserable life, love in the face of a 14 year old virgin Delgadrina. Actually we really don't know her true name as she was always asleep when he visited her. Now that I recall we don't even know the hero's name either as most of anyone who addressed him called him Teacher.
Anyway it sure has some deeper meanings like what is the meaning of life after all or insinuations about the perfect family or the ideal wife that doesn't bring any argument but as I said I don't believe it's known for making a bold statement to the world. It almost feels like a biography as he's portraying himself though if I remember correctly he was happily married from a young age and not in his 90s.