Whatever Marquez writes about, he writes, in essence, about love.
About love – and “a hundred years of loneliness”, and “recalling my unfortunate whores,” and, of course, “about love and other demons” … The young Marquis Maria was considered a possessed demons and imprisoned in the monastery. The young priest Kaetano took to save her soul. Native girls and pious nuns forgot the old Spanish proverb: “If they bring fire to gunpowder, do not wait for good.” And what’s next? Love! Passion!
And the demons of love and passion, as you know, do not expel either fasting, prayer, or even the flame of a fire …
Author
Garcia Marquez Gabriel
Translator
Holyskina Margarita
Publisher
AST, 2014
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