The story is kind of depressing - who wants to hear an old man reminisce about the lovely whores he has slept with? I guess it's a male thing. This is a male's book, some references a la Lolita. So, feminists beware.But I love Gabriel Garcia Marquez's language that I read this slim volume pretty qui...
I aspire to brazen eloquence.Love is life. It's as simple as that. Love revives. We not only see the object of our passion through the lens of love, but can come to see ourselves in new ways heretofore unimagined.
I suppose this is poetic and one of those "you'll get it when you're older" novels. I suppose so. Maybe you have to be male to get it. The whole book was uncomfortable to me until the end. I could and yet could not relate to the nonagenerian narrator. A bit ridiculous and pointless...and gross. Ther...
The narrator of this tale, a South American journalist of advanced age, is never named. We learn of his life story through the lens of his physical relationships, from his introduction to sex as a pre-adolescent, through his lifelong attachment to a particular whore, to his ravishing of a servant, t...
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