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MediaDB / «About love and other demons" Gabriel Garcia Marquez: download fb2, read online
About the book: 2012 / Whatever Marquez writes about, he writes, in essence, about love. About love - and “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, and “Remembering My Unhappy Whores”, and, of course, “About Love and Other Demons”... The young Marquise Maria was considered possessed by demons and imprisoned in a monastery. The young priest Cayetano undertook to save her soul. The girls and pious nuns forgot the old Spanish proverb: “If you bring fire to gunpowder, do not expect good.” And what next? Love! Passion! And the demons of love and passion, as you know, cannot be driven out by fasting, prayer, or even the flame of a fire…