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A review by shorshewitch
Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García Márquez
5.0
Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel García Márquez
My Rating 5/5
This was my first by Gabriel García Márquez.
I finished it early morning and I am still dazed by the gloomy feels that this book gave me. An agonizing tale of tragic love and sordid morbidity of ridiculous religious ludicrousness, this book started with a slow melancholy story of a fallen household. As the characters unveiled, I found myself wondering whether to hate them or to sympathize with them. Every single character seems to have been struggling since ages with the irrational laws of God governing them. These struggles have shaped them, drowned them, strengthened them and made them who they were. And eventually these very struggles with their innermost beings cause tragedies worthy of legends.
When a troubled little Sierva Maria is bitten by a rabid dog, little did she know that her life is going to be tiptoed by an unfathomed tragedy about a few years from now. As a child devoid of parental love for good years of her childhood, she has always found her joy with the slaves of the household. They are her true family, until her father who decides that he loves her and needs her decides to take her away one day from the only family she had ever known. The plague of rabies that has caught the town, urges the father to send the poor thing to a convent, that more than cures, believes that she is possessed by demons. Here she meets Father Cayetano Delaura whose destiny was going to be changed by her and who was going to change her destiny forever. The fates of both entangled and yet detached forever.
It is a different altitude of love. And these are different levels of demons that seize the very living out of a human being and the only sane person I have known from the book, is a rational but eccentric and prophetic physician called Abrenuncio who says "Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning".
This book is sheer love. And it is going to be with me for life for many more re-reads.
My Rating 5/5
This was my first by Gabriel García Márquez.
I finished it early morning and I am still dazed by the gloomy feels that this book gave me. An agonizing tale of tragic love and sordid morbidity of ridiculous religious ludicrousness, this book started with a slow melancholy story of a fallen household. As the characters unveiled, I found myself wondering whether to hate them or to sympathize with them. Every single character seems to have been struggling since ages with the irrational laws of God governing them. These struggles have shaped them, drowned them, strengthened them and made them who they were. And eventually these very struggles with their innermost beings cause tragedies worthy of legends.
When a troubled little Sierva Maria is bitten by a rabid dog, little did she know that her life is going to be tiptoed by an unfathomed tragedy about a few years from now. As a child devoid of parental love for good years of her childhood, she has always found her joy with the slaves of the household. They are her true family, until her father who decides that he loves her and needs her decides to take her away one day from the only family she had ever known. The plague of rabies that has caught the town, urges the father to send the poor thing to a convent, that more than cures, believes that she is possessed by demons. Here she meets Father Cayetano Delaura whose destiny was going to be changed by her and who was going to change her destiny forever. The fates of both entangled and yet detached forever.
It is a different altitude of love. And these are different levels of demons that seize the very living out of a human being and the only sane person I have known from the book, is a rational but eccentric and prophetic physician called Abrenuncio who says "Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning".
This book is sheer love. And it is going to be with me for life for many more re-reads.