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Memoria de mis putas tristes - Gabriel García Márquez
Memoria de mis putas tristes
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“El año de mis noventa años quise regalarme una noche de amor con una adolescente virgen.”Un viejo periodista decide festejar sus noventa años a lo grande, dándose un regalo que le hará sentir que todavía está vivo: una jovencita. En el prostíbulo de un pintoresco pueblo, ve a la jovencita de... show more
“El año de mis noventa años quise regalarme una noche de amor con una adolescente virgen.”Un viejo periodista decide festejar sus noventa años a lo grande, dándose un regalo que le hará sentir que todavía está vivo: una jovencita. En el prostíbulo de un pintoresco pueblo, ve a la jovencita de espaldas, completamente desnuda, y su vida cambia radicalmente. Ahora que la conoce se encuentra a punto de morir, pero no por viejo, sino de amor.Así, Memoria de mis putas tristes cuenta la vida de este anciano solitario lleno de man’as. Por él sabremos cómo en todas sus aventuras sexuales (que no fueron pocas) siempre dio a cambio algo de dinero, pero nunca imagino que de ese modo encontrar’a el verdadero amor. Esta nueva novela es una conmovedora reflexión que celebra las alegrías del enamoramiento y contempla las desventuras de la vejez, escrito en el estilo incomparable de Gabriel García Márquez.“In my ninetieth year, I decided to give myself the gift of a night of love with a young virgin.”An elderly journalist decides to celebrate his 90 years in a grand way, giving himself a present that will make him feel like he’s still alive: a virgin. In the brothel of a picturesque town, he sees the young woman from the back, completely naked, and his life changes radically. Now that he meets her he finds himself close to dying, not of old age, but rather of love.Memoria de mis putas tristes is the story of this eccentric, solitary old man, a narrative of his sexual adventures (of which there were many), for which he always paid, never imagining that this would be the way he would discover true love.This new novel, written in Gabriel García Márquez’s incomparable style movingly, contemplates the misfortunes of old age and celebrates the joys of being in love.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9789500725873 (9500725878)
Publisher: Sudamericana
Pages no: 128
Edition language: Spanish
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Mommy, am I cult?
Mommy, am I cult? rated it
4.0 Memories of My Melancholy Whores
"The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin."This is the first period of the book. So, from the beginning, we know this novella is about a veeery old man getting involved with a teenager.Give me a moment to process that.So that is why...
blackguysdoread
blackguysdoread rated it
4.0 Memories Of My Melancholy Whores
This beautifully written and provocatively-titled novella follows a lonely commitment-phobe who, on his 90th birthday, wants a night of mad passion with an adolescent virgin. But instead of the usual heartless, physical sex he has had 514 times in his life, he finally finds real love in the form a y...
MarginMan
MarginMan rated it
4.0 Memories of My Melancholy Whores
3 1/2It moves well, easy to get through. Garcia Marquez has a smooth writing style. The MC is interesting, if not particularly likeable. But I think Garcia Marquez took the 'while she was sleeping' gimmick too far.
Drobna uwaga. Na pewno umrzecie.
Drobna uwaga. Na pewno umrzecie. rated it
3.0 Rzecz o mych smutnych dziwkach
"Tym, którzy pytają, zawsze i zgodnie z prawdą odpowiadam: przez kurwy nie miałem czasu się ożenić." Sama nie wiem czego spodziewałam się po tej książce... Była ona... mętna. Sam wątek wydawał się ciekawy - dziewięćdziesięcioletni facet, czyli dziadunio, chce się zabawić z młodziutką dziewicą z burd...
Julian Meynell's Books
Julian Meynell's Books rated it
3.0 Memories of My Melancholy Whores
SpoilersThis is an immensely difficult novel (really a novella) to interpret, in part, because it is hard to know to what extent the novel has an unreliable or delusional narrator.The reviews that I have read here don't seem to ask this question, but I think that it is an inescapable one. The book ...
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