Sierva Maria is the only child of Don Ygnacio de Alfaro y Duenas, the second Marquis de Casalduero and Lord of Darien. spare and swift in the telling - has all the ineluctable, irrational fatality of 'Chronicle of a Death Foretold' (1982), though the love story, also grim and driven, has none of the comic and inconsequential gentleness The world is the familiar Garcia Marquez world, a mixture of phantasmagoria and a realism whose truths seem as incredible and strange as the moments of demonic magic.

Is her story, grotesque, terrible, glinting and gloomy. 'Of Love and Other Demons' - translated now by Edith Grossman. It is the hair of Sierva Maria de Todos los Angeles, a 12-year-old marquise two hundred years dead. Marquez's new novel opens with a description of the author-narrator, in 1949, reporting the excavation of a convent of Clarissan nuns, and seeing 'a stream of living hair the intense color of copper' spill out of theД¬rypt.

Browning and Donne startled their readers with it. It is an image, sinister and glittering, of the persistence of something after death. $21.Д«RIGHT hair twined in old bones in charnel houses is an image that perennially moves the human mind. OF LOVE AND OTHER DEMONS By Gabriel Garcia Marquez. May 28, 1995, Sunday, Late Edition - Final The New York Times: Book Review Search Article

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