Of Love and Other Demons
de Mrquez, Gabriel Garca (tr Edith Grossman)
- Usado
- Estado
- Fine, as new.
- ISBN 10
- 014024669X
- ISBN 13
- 9780140246698
- Librería
-
Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
London: Penguin, 1996. reprint. p/b. Fine, as new. . B (198 x 129). Marquez describes how in 1949, as a young reporter, he witnessed the opening of several tombs as an old convent made way for a new hotel. One of the tombs contained a skeleton of a young girl with reddish hair that measured 22 metres, 11 centimetres long. The novel is his recreation of her legend as a popular saint. Sierva Maria De Todos Los Angeles, only child of the Marquis of Casalduero is bitten by a rabid dog at the beginning of this story. When she does not die, but evinces problems of a psychological nature, her father turns her over to a convent to be examined by church officials. But the priest who examines her, Cayetano Delaura falls in love with her. Their chaste affair, sexual without consummation, leads to their mutual destruction. Their plans to run away together are thwarted; the priest is banished and Sierva Maria dies after an awful exorcist ritual. When her body is found the narrator notes that 'the roots of her hair sprouted like bubbles on her shaved cranium; it was possible to see them grow.' Even in death, love triumphs over reason and logic.
Reseñas
(¡Iniciar sesión or Crear una cuenta primero!)
Detalles
- Librería
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- IYC132614
- Título
- Of Love and Other Demons
- Autor
- Mrquez, Gabriel Garca (tr Edith Grossman)
- Formato/Encuadernación
- P/b
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- reprint
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 014024669X
- ISBN 13
- 9780140246698
- Editorial
- Penguin
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1996
- Páginas
- 160
- Palabras clave
- fiction, Marquez, South America, magical realism, translation, Nobel
- Catálogos del vendedor
- 2nd-hand books;
- X weight
- 0.07 g
- Size
- B (198 x 129)
Términos de venta
Inklings & Yarnspinners
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
Sobre el vendedor
Inklings & Yarnspinners
Miembro de Biblio desde 2021
Maidenhead, Berkshire
Sobre Inklings & Yarnspinners
INKLINGS & YARNSPINNERSA new online bookshop forFIRST & SIGNED EDITIONS, RARE BOOKSA particular focus on:- The Oxford Inklings with their Friends & Influences (C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, Barfield, Williams, Chesterton, Macdonald, Sayers, etc)- Great 20th Century Novelists (e.g. Graham Greene & John le Carré; Anthony Powell & Evelyn Waugh; P. D. James etc)- Great 20th Century Poets (e.g. T. S. Eliot, John Masefield, Walter de la Mare, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Stevie Smith, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Dylan Thomas, etc)- Christian Theology (e.g. from library sales)
Glosario
Algunos términos que podrían usarse en esta descripción incluyen:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...