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Memoria de mis putas tristes Paperback - 2004

by Gabriel García Márquez


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"El ao de mis noventa aos quise regalarme una noche de amor con una adolescente virgen." Un viejo periodista decide festejar sus noventa aos a lo grande, dndose un regalo que le har sentir que todava est vivo: una jovencita. En el prostbulo de un pintoresco pueblo, ve a la jovencita de espaldas, completamente desnuda, y su vida cambia radicalmente. Ahora que la conoce se encuentra a punto de morir, pero no por viejo, sino de amor. As, Memoria de mis putas tristes cuenta la vida de este anciano solitario lleno de manas. Por l sabremos cmo en todas sus aventuras sexuales (que no fueron pocas) siempre dio a cambio algo de dinero, pero nunca imagino que de ese modo encontrara el verdadero amor. Esta nueva novela es una conmovedora reflexin que celebra las alegras del enamoramiento y contempla las desventuras de la vejez, escrito en el estilo incomparable de Gabriel Garca Mrquez. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "In my ninetieth year, I decided to give myself the gift of a night of love with a young virgin." An elderly journalist decides to celebrate his 90 years in a grand way, giving himself a present that will make him feel like he's still alive: a virgin. In the brothel of a picturesque town, he sees the young woman from the back, completely naked, and his life changes radically. Now that he meets her he finds himself close to dying, not of old age, but rather of love. Memoria de mis putas tristes is the story of this eccentric, solitary old man, a narrative of his sexual adventures (of which there were many), for which he always paid, never imagining that this would be the way he would discover true love. This new novel, written in Gabriel Garca Mrquez's incomparable style movingly, contemplates the misfortunes of old age and celebrates the joys of being in love.

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"El ano de mis noventa anos quise regalarme una noche de amor con una adolescente virgen."
Un viejo periodista decide festejar sus noventa anos a lo grande, dandose un regalo que le hara sentir que todavia esta vivo: una jovencita. En el prostibulo de un pintoresco pueblo, ve a la jovencita de espaldas, completamente desnuda, y su vida cambia radicalmente. Ahora que la conoce se encuentra a punto de morir, pero no por viejo, sino de amor. Asi, Memoria de mis putas tristes cuenta la vida de este anciano solitario lleno de man'as. Por el sabremos cimo en todas sus aventuras sexuales (que no fueron pocas) siempre dio a cambio algo de dinero, pero nunca imagino que de ese modo encontrar'a el verdadero amor.
Esta nueva novela es una conmovedora reflexiin que celebra las alegrias del enamoramiento y contempla las desventuras de la vejez, escrito en el estilo incomparable de Gabriel Garcia Marquez.


"In my ninetieth year, I decided to give myself the gift of a night of love with a young virgin." An elderly journalist decides to celebrate his 90 years in a grand way, giving himself a present that will make him feel like he's still alive: a virgin. In the brothel of a picturesque town, he sees the young woman from the back, completely naked, and his life changes radically. Now that he meets her he finds himself close to dying, not of old age, but rather of love.
Memoria de mis putas tristes is the story of this eccentric, solitary old man, a narrative of his sexual adventures (of which there were many), for which he always paid, never imagining that this would be the way he would discover true love. This new novel, written in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's incomparablestyle movingly, contemplates the misfortunes of old age and celebrates the joys of being in love.

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  • Title Memoria de mis putas tristes
  • Author Gabriel García Márquez
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 109
  • Language SP
  • Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York
  • Date 2004-10-19
  • ISBN 9781400095803

Media reviews

"Écomo en los cuentos de hadasÉ.. breve, intensa y di‡fanaÉ.Tiene la transparente belleza de sus historias, el humor y la riqueza de su lenguaje, el tono b’blico, pero sobre todo, los s’mbolos de su universo literario, que ya son parte esencial del imaginario popular." - El Nuevo Herald

“...El maestro ha producido “Memoria de mis putas tristes” para el deleite de los millones de lectores que ha conquistado en el mundo” -Hoy

Citations

  • Criticas, 11/01/2004, Page 0

About the author

Gabriel Garca Mrquez, nacido en Colombia, fue una de las figuras ms importantes e influyentes de la literatura universal. Ganador del Premio Nobel de Literatura, fue adems cuentista, ensayista, crtico cinematogrfico, autor de guiones y, sobre todo, intelectual comprometido con los grandes problemas de nuestro tiempo, en primer trmino con los que afectaban a su amada Colombia y a Hispanoamrica en general. Mxima figura del realismo mgico, fue en definitiva el hacedor de uno de los mundos narrativos ms densos de significados que ha dado la lengua espaola en el siglo xx. Entre sus obras ms importantes se encuentran las novelas Cien aos de soledad, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba, Crnica de una muerte anunciada, La mala hora, El general en su laberinto, El amor en los tiempos del clera, Memoria de mis putas tristes, el libro de relatos Doce cuentos peregrinos, la primera parte de su autobiografa, Vivir para contarla, y sus discursos reunidos, Yo no vengo a decir un discurso. Falleci en 2014.
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