Of Love and Other Demons

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She almost never left her bedroom, and when she did she was nude or wearing a silk tunic with nothing underneath, which made her seem more naked than if she wore nothing at all. I have seen this book given as a gift to represent an improbable, impossible love, so I hope the giver and receiver are on the same wavelength as I remember the book more for its interesting story and scenes than for any emotions aroused or intellectual confrontation. Ella no es una niña cualquiera, es un ser humano extraordinario que nadie comprenderá y su entrada en el convento de Santa Clara generará los sentimientos más encontrados. But after she died they would flee the shacks to escape the midday heat and stretch out on the floor in every corner, or scrape the crust out of the rice pots and eat it, or play with the macuco and the tarabilla in the cool corridors.

Y aquí estoy yo 18 años después de haber leído El coronel no tiene quien le escriba, escribiendo una reseña de una novela de García Márquez.The author's grandmother told to little Gabriel the story about a 12-year-old Marquis with long hair to the ground, died because of a bite from a rabid dog, and revered in the Caribbean for her many miracles. Todo, absolutamente todo, gira alrededor de Sierva María quien luego de ser mordida por un perro es sospechada de haber contraído la rabia y de ahí, luego de las peores sospechas de creerse que está poseída por demonios. Una fe que se hace inexpugnable ante cualquier ataque, que se blinda herméticamente contra toda razón.

And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, who has already dreamed about a girl with hair trailing after her like a bridal train. Sierva Maria in the meantime is at last summoned to be exorcised and she eventually dies 'of love' wondering where Father Cayetano is and after having her hair cut. Her father, seeks help of the church, attributing her violent reactions and imbecility, to the contracted rabies!Sierva Maria de Todos Los Angeles is the twelve-year-old daughter of the Marquis and his wife Bernarda. I felt like I needed a character guidebook to accompany the reading of this novel because after a while, I couldn't remember who was who and what their relevance to the story was supposed to be. García Márquez wrote seven novels during his life, with additional titles that include El general en su laberinto (1989), or The General in His Labyrinth, and Del amor y otros demonios (1994), or Of Love and Other Demons. The redeeming features are in Delaura’s release from a repressed priesthood and of Sierva from an unloved childhood.