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A carregar... Do amor e outros demónios (1994)por Gabriel García Márquez
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This was a book club selection. Although I can see that GGM is a talented writer, I have never warmed up to any of his books. This one was no different. The novel is about a dysfunctional quasi-aristocratic family that damages their daughter to the point of her behavior appearing demonic. In come the bishops and nuns to "help", ending up in an exorcism. During all this, one of the churchmen falls in love with the daughter (who is TWELVE YEARS OLD). Gross. The style was allegorical; characters seemed to be flat and symbolic rather than authentic humans. And of course GGM's love of the gastrointestinal system and other bodily functions permeates the novel. Also gross. I am honestly not sure what the message or point of the novel is. I am looking forward to book club discussion to help me comprehend. A beautiful book that fits into its short length perfectly, much like Thornton Wilder's 'The Bridge of San Luis Rey'. I love how Garcia Marquez takes one idea - that it is impossible to escape a verdict, whether right or wrong (in this case of contracting rabies in a time when medical tests were nigh-on impossible, and then, of being suspected of demonic possession in a time where the Catholic church ruled supreme), and then unwrapping the lives of those affected by the verdict. Brilliant stuff.
What is body and what survives? What is flesh and what is spirit and what is demonic? Mr. Garcia Marquez's answer is an almost didactic, yet brilliantly moving, tour de force. Pertence à Série da EditoraMeulenhoff editie (1395) Está contido emGabriel Garcia Marquez Collection: Love in the Time of Cholera, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, of Love and Other Demons, the Story of a Shipwrecked Sai por Gabriel García Márquez Tem a adaptaçãoTem um guia de estudo para estudantes
In colonial South America, the doomed love of a 12-year-old girl and a priest thrice her age sent to exorcise her. She is a nobleman's daughter who has been bitten by a rabid dog. The authorities decide she is possessed by the devil and lock her up in a convent. By the author of Love in the Time of Cholera. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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In the middle of those complicated lives with no one understand their own soul, Sierva Maria was born. She was the daughter of an old Marquese, Ignacio, with white-and-indigenous mix woman named Bernarda Cabrera. Her mother hated her, while her father only thought Sierva Maria is not his daughter. She finally was being raised by the African slaves and didn't understand the comfortable wealth she should had.
No one understand Sierva Maria as they didn't understand their own self. But people were being prejudiced towards the girl, and believed she was possessed by the demon after she was bitten by a rabid dog. One atheist doctor, Abrenuncio, told him that Sierva Maria was fine, yet Ignacio chose to send her to Santa Clara Convent when they could do the exorcism.
Because of the exorcism, Sierva Maria met Cayetano Delaura, the priest who would do the exorcism. Yet, he was fond of her until it was too dangerous for them both. The love had become the evil itself.
I think the most important message from this book is that your ego to chase good deeds and purity love is the evil itself. ( )