Gabriel García Márquez, Del amor y otros demonios [Of Love and Other Demons]

Jay Corwin (University of Cape Town)

Ed. by Ben Bollig, University of Oxford
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 5.1.1: Hispanic Writing and Culture of South America.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (Universidad de Antioquia), Ben Bollig (University of Oxford), Ceire Broderick (University College Cork), Nuala Finnegan (University College Cork), Anna Forné (Gothenburg University), Cara Levey (University College Cork), Carolina Orloff (Independent Scholar - Europe), Lori Oxford (Western Carolina University), Ailsa Peate (University of Westminster)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1994

Places

Colombia (Country of Origin)

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Del amor y otros demonios [Of Love and Other Demons], (1994) is set in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, in the mid 18^th century. The novel is divided into a prologue and five chapters. The central character, Sierva María de Todos los Ángeles, is bitten by a rabid dog on her twelfth birthday, but survives unharmed while three other victims contract rabies. As medical science is in its infancy in the 18^th century, superstition dictates control of prognoses and treatments. Sierva María is the daughter of Ygnacio Alfaro y Dueñas, the Marquis of Casalduero, and of his untitled wife, Bernarda Cabrera. Their marriage is unconventional and exists in name only by the start of the …

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Citation: Corwin, Jay. "Del amor y otros demonios". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 16 March 2009 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=13022, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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