This week is addressed to a new novel «Of Love and other Demons»–https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del_amor_y_otros_demonios_(novela)

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Of Love and Other Demons (Spanish: Del amor y otros demonios) is a novel  by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez, first published in 1994.

In the prologue, García Márquez claims the novel is the fictional representation of a legend the author was told by his grandmother as a child: of a 12-year-old girl who contracts rabies but was believed to be a 'miracle-worker', with long flowing copper hair that continues to grow after death. In this frame-story, it was only after an excavation of tombs that García Márquez is witness to the grave of a similar young girl with long red hair still attached to the skull, that he was inspired to write Of Love and Other Demons.

Mariana Solanet, however, in García Márquez for Beginners, states this source was invented. She points rather to a story in Daniel Lemaitre's History of Cartagena that García Márquez came across in research for Love in the Time of Cholera.

In 2008, the opera Love and Other Demons, by Hungarian composer Péter Eötvös was premiered at the Glyndebourne Festival.

 

A spanish version of the novel – http://biblio3.url.edu.gt/Libros/amor_demo.pdf

 

Critical analysis 

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By Love Possessed - https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/06/13/specials/byatt-marquez.html

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http://www.enotes.com/topics/love-other-demons

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Magical Realism as Social protest - http://www.ajlas.org/v2006/paper/2012vol25no303.pdf

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There are several references in Gabo’s novel to the Renaissance spanish poet Garcilaso de la Vega.

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There’s a good website dedicated to Garcilaso de la Veja http://www.garcilaso.org/ that includes his works, studies and articles.

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«La crítica tradicional ha hecho de Garcilaso el paradigma del caballero al gusto romántico, elevando a arquetipo su figura de gentilhombre que tomaba con igual maestría “ora la espada, ora la pluma”. Pero a menudo el arquetipo oculta al hombre. Lo que esa antigua crítica entiende como feliz complementariedad de facetas literarias y guerreras Garcilaso lo sintió como desgarramiento de polos contradictorios: “Diverso entre contrarios” se definió, como autorretrato visionado en el espejo de su biografía bipartida.»

He was a professional soldier with a poetic soul.

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Soneto V – https://youtu.be/T2-TtpoeIlk

Oda a la flor de Gnido – https://youtu.be/cPvXbMacpZE

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