The Autumn Love of a Nonagenarian Seducer. From the Symptoms of the Old Age to the signa amorisin Memoria de mis putas tristesby García Márquez
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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.elc.12915Keywords:
Memoria de mis putas tristes, García Márquez, Gabriel, Delgadina, incest, signa amoris, senile dementiaAbstract
Initially inspired on The House of the Sleeping Beauties (1961) by the Japanese writer and Nobel Prize Yasunari Kawabata, Memoria de mis putas tristes (2004) depicts a passionate love story between a man in his nineties and a virginal girl, whose name in the novel is Delgadina, a clear allusion to the character of the same name from medieval Spanish romances who is subject to the threat of incest. It is a story of crazy love in manner of the Surrealistic vein, set in a peculiar brothel in the Caribbean where the signs of love mix with those of elder age due to the dreamlike resources of magic realism.
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