Of Love and Other Demons - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

This story blends Marquez' mixture of the mystical and the grotesque, love and violence. Indeed, for the main characters, love becomes a force that compels them through ordeals and trials. The background, Colombia in the eighteenth century, also combines beauty and sordid surroundings. In this world, two forces exist almost without contact. The young marquise, Sierva Maria, is from an old Spanish family, with old faded dignity, so inactive that her father scarcely notices time passing. But the other world is of the slaves, full of life and their own beliefs. Sierva falls under their sway, but her behaviour is blamed on the bite of a rabid dog. She is ...  Read the complete review