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| Record 1271 of 1411 |
| | Author | | Eichenberger, Bill
| | | Title | | "Narrator Reflects on A Life of Lust Satisfied, Love Unrequited," Columbus Dispatch
| | | Publisher | | The Columbus Dispatch | | | Publication place | | Columbus, OH | | | Publication year | | October 30, 2005 | | | Page | | The Arts; Bookends; 07F | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | In his review of Gabriel García Márquez's novel Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Bill Eichenberger discusses the narrator and states that "one needn't like a first-person narrator for a novel to be successful, but one must at least find that narrator interesting. The reclusive narrator of Gabriel García Márquez's first work of fiction in 10 years...is indeed interesting." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 1272 of 1411 |
| | Author | | Massie, Allan
| | | Title | | "Memories of My Melancholy Whores: Old Age With a touch of Magic," The Scotsman
| | | Publisher | | The Scotsman Publications | | | Publication place | | Edinburgh, Scotland | | | Publication year | | October 29, 2005 | | | Page | | 9 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | In this review of Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores Allan Massie states that "The novella is really a meditation on old age, that time of life when reality itself can appear, as the narrator remarks, "fantastic"...The old may feel as intensely as they ever did in their youth. But what they feel seems in them incredible, absurd, or disgusting to those who have not yet arrived at the summit from which the read leads precipitously downhill to the grave." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 1273 of 1411 |
| | Author | | Prasannarajan, S.
| | | Title | | "Love VSOP," India Today
| | | Publisher | | Living Media India | | | Publication place | | New Delhi, India | | | Publication year | | October 31, 2005 | | | Page | | Books; 77 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | In this review of Gabriel García Márqez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores S. Parasannarajan states that "The lovers in "Memories of My Melancholy Whores" too are placed in the Marquezian enigma: she speaks only one sentence in the book; he had reinvented her in the delirium of desire...The novel itself is like a stray sentence of burning beauty from a master." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 1274 of 1411 |
| | Author | | Nieves, Felipe
| | | Title | | "Anemic Effort Hurt Even More by Translation," Plain Dealer
| | | Publisher | | Plain Dealer Publishing | | | Publication place | | Cleveland, OH | | | Publication year | | October 30, 2005 | | | Page | | Books; H5 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | In this review of Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Felipe Nieves discusses the novel and also critiques Edith Grossman's translation of the text from Spanish to English. | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 1275 of 1411 |
| | Author | | Marchand, Philip
| | | Title | | "One Last Wild Night, Please," The Toronto Star
| | | Publisher | | Toronto Star Newspapers | | | Publication place | | Toronto, Canada | | | Publication year | | October 30, 2005 | | | Page | | Books; D07 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | In this review of Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Philip Marchand compares the novel to Philip Roth's The Dying Animal, but states that "Marquez's culture, by contrast, is wiser. It recognizes that desire leads to suffering, and that suffering can also be delightful, in a way, but suffering ends in defeat, and defeat is a melancholy thing, to be sure." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 1276 of 1411 |
| | Author | | Elliott, Helen
| | | Title | | "Refining Love To It
| | | Publisher | | Nationwide News | | | Publication place | | | | | Publication year | | October 29, 2005 | | | Page | | BooksReview; 16 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | This review of Memories of My Melancholy Whores is set up as a series of e-mails from Helen Elliot about the novel. In one of the e-mails she states that "Memories of My Melancholy Whores is a brilliant meditation on this matter of love and puts paid to any ideas of tranquility and old age. It's also a great place to begin reading Marquez because the great early books are daunting for those with a timid digestion when it comes to gaudy." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 1277 of 1411 |
| | Author | | Hopkinson, Amanda
| | | Title | | "Fantsies of a Fading Master; Memories of My Melancholy Whores By Gabriel García Márquez, The Independent
| | | Publisher | | Newspaper Publishing | | | Publication place | | London, UK | | | Publication year | | October 28, 2005 | | | Page | | Features; 23 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | In this review of Memories of My Melancholy Whores Amanda Hopkinson discusses the significance of age in the novel. | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 1278 of 1411 |
| | Author | | Leblanc, Jeanne A.
| | | Title | | "Love, Aging & Melancholy; Gabriel García Márquez Explores an Old Man
| | | Publisher | | The Hartford Courant | | | Publication place | | Hartford, CT | | | Publication year | | October 30, 2005 | | | Page | | Arts; G3 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | In discussing the unusual topic of the book Leblanc states that "some readers will be distressed by the sexual mores of this story, and they may not be able to see it primarily as a tale of love and aging. Worse, they may not see that García ultimately celebrates love, which can conquer solitude, instead of sex, which cannot." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 1279 of 1411 |
| | Author | | Romano, Carlin
| | | Title | | "García Márquez Ponders Age and Sex in "Memoirs of My Melancholy Whores."" Philedelphia Inquirer
| | | Publisher | | Knight Ridder/ Tribune News Service | | | Publication place | | Philedelphia, PA | | | Publication year | | November 2, 2005 | | | Page | | | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | In this review of Memories of My Melancholy Whores Carlin Romano notes many similarities between Gabriel García Márquez's life and the life of the narrator in his book. She also suggests that the reader "think of "Memories," then, as the lustrously written story of a shipwrecked sailer, as "magic prurience" protected from severe criticism by the astounding prior achievement of its sainted but unsaintly author." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 1280 of 1411 |
| | Author | | Arana, Marie
| | | Title | | "The Love of His Life: García Márquez
| | | Publisher | | The Washington Post | | | Publication place | | Washington, DC | | | Publication year | | November 6, 2005 | | | Page | | Book World; T07 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | In this review of Gabriel García Márquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores Marie Arana discusses the novel in detail and concludes that "this is a story of love. A man mustn't die without knowing the wonder." | | | URL | | | |
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