Of Love and Other Demons
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Of Love and Other Demons
| Author | Gabriel García Márquez |
|---|---|
| Published | 1994 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | García Márquez’s short novel of an eighteenth-century Caribbean colonial city, where a twelve-year-old girl bitten by a rabid dog never develops symptoms and is handed to a convent to be exorcised anyway — and the priest assigned to her falls in love with her. Its cold engine is institutional certainty: the machinery is confident it is treating a demon, and the treatment is what destroys her. |
Of Love and Other Demons
Where I heard about it
- The a16z infrastructure team — in the Fantasy section of the a16z Infra Reading List, the last and latest of the five García Márquez titles it names. The team’s own caveat: they say they are not fantasy people and ask for pull requests to fill the section in.
About this edition
Del amor y otros demonios, 1994; translated into English by Edith Grossman in 1995.
Connections
- a16z Infra Reading List — the list this came from.
- Gabriel García Márquez — the author.
- One Hundred Years of Solitude — the first of his titles on the list, already carded.
- Religion — the institution the book is about.
- Literature — where this sits in the corpus.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.