La historia me pareció excelente, triste, ya que Sierva María fue una de esas personas que nació en una época equivocada, donde no coincidir con la religión cristiana era lo peor para una persona. No pude evitar encariñarme con el personaje y no sentir lástima por lo que le sucedía. Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, Colombia, in 1927. He studied at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá, and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas and New York. He is the author of several novels and collections of stories, including Eyes of a Blue Dog (1947), Leaf Storm (1955), No One Writes to the Colonel (1958), In Evil Hour (1962), Big Mama's Funeral (1962), One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Innocent Erendira and Other Stories (1972), The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), The General in His Labyrinth (1989), Strange Pilgrims (1992), Of Love and Other Demons (1994) and Memories of My Melancholy Whores (2005). Many of his books are published by Penguin. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Gabriel Garcia Marquez died in 2014. Los personajes están muy bien construidos, creo que lo mejor es como el autor en su momento va explicando por qué actuaban como lo hacían, qué los llevó a estar donde estaban, además sin extenderse demasiado, un desarrollo perfecto. Eso sí, el marqués Ygnacio y su esposa Bernarda son de los peores padres que he leído en una novela. Simplemente detestables.

The truth is I am not really sure why I have come,'said Delaura.'Unless that child has been imposed on me by the Holy pirit to test the strength of my faith.' When a witch doctor appears on the Marquis de Casalduero's doorstep prophesising a plague of rabies in the Colombian seaport, he dismisses her claims - until he hears that his young daughter, Sierva María, was one of four people bitten by a rabid dog, and the only one to survive.I hardly remember anything about the movie (2009). I watched it more than a decade ago and rated it 4 stars on IMDB, so I guess that explains why it doesn’t ring a bell. It’s obviously pretty forgettable, and I’m not subjecting myself to watch it again. One time was enough I think! Del amor y otros demonios trata sobre Sierva María de Todos los Ángeles, una niña de 12 años hija del marqués de Casalduero que el día se su cumpleaños la muerde un perro que al parecer tiene rabia, además se ve envuelta en las garras del cristianismo debido a su crianza, ya que creció rodeada de esclavos y aprendió su lengua y costumbres. The fictional link between these two episodes led to this little gem of mystery and magic. Obviously, I might add, being Gabriel García Márquez! Mustering my aspirations to save the girl, I went to the physician who was the first person outside the immediate noble family of the Marquis who was made aware of the Girl's instability ,which as his scientific capacity of a doctor would decree, said that the dog bite might be the the cause of the Girl's distress. The physician,a man of scholarly disposition with a chaotic and a dubious past invited me in devoid of any apprehension. He was not a bit disconcerted to allow a man of religion to enter his house. I was fascinated with the amount of books on his shelves. I was impressed by his Latin speaking skills and he showed me the forbidden book I was deprived of in my younger days-'the four volumes of Amadis of Gaul'. I gave a glance of awe over the precious edition and I could feel my other half of my being, my sunburnt eye plunging into the throes of ephemeral recuperation. He becomes the puppeteer, the illusionist and the enthralled readers can only follow his lead and believe in what he wants them to believe.

A violent surfacing of adolescence (which has little in common with Tarkington's earlier, broadly comic, Seventeen) has a compulsive impact. Fatto numero 2. La nonna di García Márquez narrava al piccolo Gabriel la leggenda di una marchesina di dodici anni dai capelli lunghi tanto da toccare terra, morta a causa del morso di un cane rabbioso, e venerata nei Caraibi per i suoi molti miracoli. Es muy difícil hacer una reseña de este libro a pesar de su corta extensión, ya que el autor supo en pocas páginas plasmar una historia muy completa, bien narrada y con personajes sólidos e inolvidables. Simplemente increíble.

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I had always loved reading books ranging from the religious ones in Latin to the forbidden 'books of chivalry' until one day I was deprived of my decrepit copy of 'Amadis of Gaul' and was coerced to devote my absolute faith in God rather than immersing myself in frivolities of chivalry. Sierva Maria, the protagonist adolescent, is raised by her father, Don Ygnacio de Alfaro y Duenas, and her Indian mother, Bernarda de Cabrera, who rejects Sierva, at an early age. She spends her childhood in slave quarters, learning their languages and culture. As a precocious child, she learns to dance before she could speak and drinks rooster’s blood before breakfast. Being alienated and raised by the slaves, she starts behaving weirdly from the rest of the children of her age. Her father, seeks help of the church, attributing her violent reactions and imbecility, to the contracted rabies! The striking aspect is, for greater part of the novel, whether the protagonist, has actually contracted rabies or not, and the reason of her imbecility, is not disclosed.

Gabriel García Márquez es uno de esos escritores bendecidos por el arte de narrar historias como los dioses. A lo largo de su vasta carrera literaria supo abrirse a paso firme su camino glorioso en la literatura, recibió el premio Nobel en 1982 y se instaló entre los mejores autores que nos dio el siglo XX. Todas sus novelas en general reflejan su maestría única, su impronta inequívoca y son leídas por gente de todo el mundo. He removed the patch and tossed it in the thrash bin.'The only thing wrong with that eye is that it sees more than it ought too,' he said. Los personajes secundarios son un complemento excelente, aportan lo necesario a la historia y el autor les da el protagonismo que merecen.La última vez que leí a García Márquez fue en el 2005, estaba próximo a cumplir 11 años y fue una lectura obligatoria de la escuela, fue la novela El coronel no tiene quien le escriba. Como ya se imaginarán odié ese libro a más no poder, no hay nada peor que hacer algo por obligación, y si se trata de leer, es lo peor que se puede hacer, pero Colombia no ha sido un país que destaque por su buena educación, pero eso es otro tema. La niña enfermó y le daban muchas fiebres por lo que se pensó que estaba poseída por un demonio y el obispo recomendó llevarla al convento de Santa Clara para que fuera exorcizada. She is sent to the convent of Santa Clara to receive an exorcism, which many people have died from. She receives attention from a priest, Father Cayetano, who is kind to her and initially believes she does not need to be exorcised.

La rielaborazione da parte dell'autore di questi episodi ed il loro collegamento romanzato ha portato a questo piccolo gioiello di magia e mistero. Come è ovvio che sia, trattandosi di Gabriel García Márquez! But a young priest falls in love with her, and this love is the real demon of the title. Love of underage girls is a theme in several of the author’s novels. Muy posiblemente con Crónica de una Muerte Anunciada, una de las mejores obras de Garcia Marquez que leí hasta el día. Especialmente disfruté la triste y trágica historia de fondo de Ignacio, Bernarda y Judas Iscariote. No me agradó particularmente mucho la última parte en el Convento de Santa Clara y el Padre Cayetano para ser sincero; pero esa escena con el pelo…. ¡Cielos! Eso sí fue increíble. El obispo encargó a el padre Cayetano Delaura, que se hiciera cargo de los exorcismos de la niña, pero terminó obsesionado con ella y el obispo le retiró el cargo y lo mandó a cuidar leprosos. A pesar de eso, Sierva María y Cayetano se veían todas las noches a escondidas en el convento y se enamoraron locamente envueltos en un éxtasis indescriptible.I so wanted to love this book. Touted as a captivating, enchanting and even "edgy" work of storytelling hinged with elements of magical realism, "Of Love and Other Demons" seemed like a promising novel that would haunt me psychologically and emotionally. 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. A partir de allí y de la reclusión en el convento por imposición de su padre el marqués se desarrollará la trama del libro hasta el final.