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Of Love and Other Demons (Spanish: Del amor y otros demonios) is a novel by Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez published in 1994. Por otro lado, tenemos al padre Cayetano, que en su momento por una desgracia de Sierva María llegan a coincidir, y en ella encuentra su punto de quiebre, y le surgen las dudas si en realidad creer o no.

I tried telling the Bishop of my doubts regarding the satanic possession of the girl and maybe rabies was the true reason behind the girl's instability and the girl should be left in the deft hands of doctors or physicians to come up with a cure. As we proceeded with the discussion,I tried to reason with him but he came up with an invincible ambiguity which left me more perplexed than defeated. Father Cayetano falls in love with Sierva Maria and declares her his love; he soon begins visiting Sierva in her cell in secret, climbing up from the sewer (that in future is fixed). They eat, sleep, and recite poetry together, even though it does not appear that they are sexually involved. Pero este diablo metafórico que todos sabemos que puede ser el amor se convierte aquí en el auténtico Maligno, todo cuernos y rabo, gracias a otros demonios aún más peligrosos y detestables: la intolerancia, la imbecilidad y la ignorancia combatida a base de superstición y representados aquí por la Iglesia inquisitorial del siglo XVIII. Unos demonios que atacaron sin piedad a Sierva María, criada entre la servidumbre negra y mulata de su padre el marqués, educada en sus tradiciones e idiomas, otra vez la amenaza negra, y que arrastrará a Delaura, el cura cobarde de treinta y seis años enamorado, por primera vez, de una niña de doce.

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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.

Four men who meet as college roommates move to New York and spend the next three decades gaining renown in their professions—as an architect, painter, actor and lawyer—and struggling with demons in their intertwined personal lives.In 2008, the opera Love and Other Demons, by Hungarian composer Péter Eötvös was premiered at the Glyndebourne Festival. A Delaura, en cambio, lo único que le llamó la atención fue el alboroto de los gallos. «No son sino seis pero cantan como ciento», dijo la abadesa. «Además, un cerdo habló y una cabra parió trillizos». Y agregó con ahínco: «Todo anda así desde que su obispo nos hizo el favor de mandarnos este regalo emponzoñado». Igual alarma le causaba el jardín florecido con tanto ímpetu que parecía contra natura. A medida que lo atravesaban le hacía notar a Delaura que había flores de tamaños y colores irreales, y algunas de olores insoportables." La vida no les dio tiempo. Un 9 de noviembre estaban tocando a dúo bajo los naranjos, porque el aire era puro y el cielo alto y sin nubes, cuando un relámpago los cegó, un estampido sísmico los sacó de quicio, y doña Olalla cayó fulminada por la centella. La ciudad sobrecogida interpretó la tragedia como una deflagración de la cólera divina por una culpa inconfesable. El marqués ordenó funerales de reina, en los cuales se mostró por primera vez con los tafetanes negros y la color macilenta que había de llevar hasta siempre. Al regreso del cementerio lo sorprendió una nevada de palomitas de papel sobre los naranjos del huerto. Atrapó una al azar, la deshizo, y leyó: Ese rayo era mío.” Sierva María appears completely unscathed - but as rumours of the plague spread, the Marquis and his wife wonder at her continuing good health. In a town consumed by superstition, it's not long before they, and everyone else, put her survival down to a demonic possession and begin to see her supernatural powers as the cause of the town's woes. Only the young priest charged with exorcizing the evil spirit recognises the girl's sanity, but can he convince the town that it's not her that needs healing? But finally with my second Marquez book, I think I've succeeded in my endeavors to decode his writing, to a certain extent.

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