Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Posted on 07 April 2017 by Gabriel García Márquez

2004 , 12. Read Memories of My Melancholy Whores – kino-fada.fr To enjoy this book you have to enter the mind and world of this old, old man, living the last years of his life in poverty in the once grand, decaying house of his youth His career never rose above second rate reporter, he never married and never even fell in love His personal relationships with women were limited to the whores he paid for A most unfulfilled life.But then, for a present for his 90th birthday, he gives himself a 14 year old virgin, a would be whore Exhausted from menial labou To enjoy this book you have to enter the mind and world of this old, old man, living the last years of his life in poverty in the once grand, decaying house of his youth His career never rose above second rate reporter, he never married and never even fell in love His personal relationships with women were limited to the whores he paid for A most unfulfilled life.But then, for a present for his 90th birthday...This is it everyone The most depressing book I have read Ever Yes This book Not the ones about the holocaust, brutal wars, awful diseases this book About an old man who has only ever slept with whores I don t know why it got to me like it did, but I would read a few pages and feel physically sick to my stomach It s not the subject matter it s interesting , it s not the writing he s Marquez it s just this sense of awfulness This awful awful life he s lead, and what he has never This is it everyone The most depressing book I have read Ever Yes This book Not the ones about the holocaust, brutal wars, awful diseases this book About an old man who has only ever slept with whores I don t know why it got to me like it did, but I would read a few pages and ...On a certain level, I truly enjoyed Memories of My Melancholy Whores I am always ready to be swept up in the simple whimsy of G.G.M s language, and the sweeping romance and dramatic emotion of his work always appeals to me But on another very real level I found this book disturbing and sexist.The book s theme is strikingly reminiscent of Talk to Her , a recent Almodovar film Both deal with men who build flowery romantic erotic relationships in their minds with a completely passive sleeping On a certain level, I truly enjoyed Memories of My Melancholy Whores I am always ready to be swept up in the simple whimsy of G.G.M s language, and the sweeping romance and dramatic emotion of his work always appeals to me But on another very real level I found this book disturbing and sexist.The book s theme is strikingly reminiscent of Talk to Her , a recent Almodovar film Both deal with men who build flowery romantic erotic relationships in their minds with a completely passive sleeping woman In the film, the man in question is a nurse in a hospital caring for an accomplished ballerina who is in a coma In Melancholy Whores , the lover is a man who has just...2.5 5After getting the cringing fingernails down a chalkboard type feeling of a ninety year old man with a boner eradicated from my mind, I thought to myself right, now that s out the way, this IS Garc a M rquez we are talking about here, I am in safe hands, don t worry, this will turn out to be a decent read Or at least that s what I d hoped This novella is narrated by an aging connoisseur of girls for hire After spending a lifetime getting it on with prostitutes 514 of them to be precise 2.5 5After getting the cringing fingernails down a chalkboard type feeling of a ninety year old man with a boner eradicated from my mind, I thought to myself right, now that s out the way, this IS Garc a M rquez we are talking about here, I am in safe hands, don t worry, this will turn out to be a decent read Or at least that s what I d hoped This novella is narrated by an aging connoisseur of girls for hire After spending a lifetime getting it on with prostitutes 514 of them to be precise, before losing count the unnamed journalist fancies a nice young virgin for his 90th birthday On the first of many occasions, he enters a room to discover the chosen girl of 14, naked and asleep Over time he obsesses about her writes columns that drive his readers into a frenzy kisses her e...14 14A Latin American Lolita Lite or Don t Let The Title Scare You This Isn t A Dirty Old Man Book It s been years since I ve read anything by Gabriel Garc a M rquez, and so this little book, while not as grand, sweeping or substantial as the works that earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, came as a lovely, gentle surprise.Reading it felt like catching up with a grizzled old friend who can tell a mean story Garc a M rquez s seductive writing has a perfumed air of nostalgia and roma A Latin American Lolita Lite or Don t Let The Title Scare You This Isn t A Dirty Old Man Book It s been years since I ve read anything by Gabriel Garc a M rquez, and so this little book, while not as grand, sweeping or substantial as the works that earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, came as a lovely, gentle surprise.Reading it felt like catching up with a grizzled old friend who can tell a mean story Garc a M rquez s seductive writing has a perfumed air of nostalgia and romance about it Once sniffed, it s impossible to tear yourself away.Take the book s remarkable opening lineThe year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin The unnamed narrator isn t as lecherous as he sounds He s ugly, shy, and anachronistic, a journalist who used to rewrite wire copy and now supplements his income by teaching Spanish lessons and penning a newspaper column He never married although he w...Yasunari Kawabata Yasunari KawabataMemoria de mis putas tristes Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Gabriel Garc a M rquez Memories of My Melancholy Whores Spanish Memoria de mis putas tristes is a novella by Gabriel Garc a M rquez The book was originally published in Spanish in 2004, with an English translation by Edith Grossman published in October 2005.An old journalist, who has just celebrated his 90th birthday, seeks sex with a young prostitute, who is selling her virginity to help her family Instead of sex, he discover Memoria de mis putas tristes Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Gabriel Garc a M rquez Memories of My Melancholy Whores Spanish Memoria de mis putas tristes is a novella by Gabriel Garc a M rquez The book was originally published in Spanish in 2004, with an English translation by...Espa ol EnglishEste se or sin nombre nunca se ha enamorado, pero s ha tenido mucho sexo casual, casi siempre con prostitutas Mantiene una larga relaci n de negocios con la due a del prost bulo que frecuenta Es por esto que en la v spera de sus noventa a os la llama y le solicita algo inusual quiere celebrar su cumplea os con una jovencita que sea virgen Nunca se ha casado ni ha hecho grandes cambios en su vida vive en la casa de su familia donde se cri y tiene su trabajo de publicar una Espa ol EnglishEste se or sin nombre nunca se ha enamorado, pero s ha tenido mucho sexo casual, casi siempre con prostitutas Mantiene una larga relaci n de negocios con la due a del prost bulo que frecuenta Es por esto que en la v spera de sus noventa a os la llama y le solicita algo inusual quiere celebrar su cumplea os con una jovencita que sea virgen Nunca se ha casado ni ha hecho grandes cambios en su vida vive en la casa de su familia donde se cri y tiene su ...The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin I m ugly, shy and anachronistic But by dint of not wanting to be those things I have pretended to be just the opposite Until today, when I have resolved to tell of my own free will just what I m like, if only to ease my conscience The beginning of a new life at an age when most mortals have already died There is no subject in our society that is associated withmyths and misinf The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin I m ugly, shy and anachronistic But by dint of not wanting to be those things I have pretended to be just the opposite Until today, when I have resolved to tell of my own free will just what I m like, if only to ease my conscience The beginning of ...

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07 April 2017

Gabriel García Márquez