Name: Memoria de mis putas tristes (in Spanish)
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Author: Gabriel García Márquez
ISBN: 9789500725873

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Memoria de mis putas tristes (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Gabriel García Márquez

Publisher

SUDAMERICANA

Collection

NARRATIVA

Year

2004

Language

Spanish

Pages

128

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

0.8 x 22.9 cm

ISBN

9500725878

ISBN13

9789500725873

Edited in

Argentina

Synopsis "Memoria de mis putas tristes (in Spanish)"

âEl aÃ±o de mis noventa aÃ±os quise regalarme una noche de amor con una adolescente virgen.âUn viejo periodista decide festejar sus noventa aÃ±os a lo grande, dÃ¡ndose un regalo que le harÃ¡ sentir que todavÃa estÃ¡ vivo: una jovencita. En el prostÃbulo 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.AsÃ, Memoria de mis putas tristes cuenta la vida de este anciano solitario lleno de manâas. Por Ã©l sabremos cÃ³mo en todas sus aventuras sexuales (que no fueron pocas) siempre dio a cambio algo de dinero, pero nunca imagino que de ese modo encontrarâa el verdadero amor. Esta nueva novela es una conmovedora reflexiÃ³n que celebra las alegrÃas del enamoramiento y contempla las desventuras de la vejez, escrito en el estilo incomparable de Gabriel GarcÃa MÃ¡rquez.âIn my ninetieth year, I decided to give myself the gift of a night of love with a young virgin.âAn elderly journalist decides to celebrate his 90 years in a grand way, giving himself a present that will make him feel like heâs 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 GarcÃa MÃ¡rquezâs incomparable style movingly, contemplates the misfortunes of old age and celebrates the joys of being in love.

Gabriel García Márquez

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Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014), son of the Colombian Caribbean and immortal voice of Spanish narrative, is one of the most influential literary minds of the 20th century. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982, his talent transcended the boundaries of paper: he was a novelist, short story writer, essayist, screenwriter, film critic, and above all, a thinker committed to the pains and hopes of his homeland and all of Latin America. Architect of magical realism, he masterfully wove the everyday and the fantastic, making reality blur among yellow butterflies, eternal rains, and towns where the impossible was part of everyday life. His work gave life to a unique narrative universe, where history breathes, dreams, and bleeds intensely.

Among his most emblematic titles are One Hundred Years of Solitude, No One Writes to the Colonel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The General in His Labyrinth, Love in the Time of Cholera, and Strange Pilgrims, among others. In 2002 he opened the door to his memory with Living to Tell the Tale. In 2012, All the Stories were published, and, as if literary destiny refused to close the curtain on him, in 2024 his posthumous and unpublished novel See You in August was released.

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