Yummy, captivating reading, from the very first sentence. There's a lot of blah about the book, just look around, plenty of reviews and opinions; everything is magic of course, and the story telling*, oh! the story telling is absolutely fantastic, so I'll just make a confession: I have a terrible, secret passion for priests who fall madly in love and run away with the object of their desire, go nuts or do something crazy. Here, not so secret any more.

*mental debate on who's a better story teller: Marquez or Pamuk.

صادقانه بگم، من به طرز تأسف‌باری مارکز و آثارش رو نمی‌فهمم. چه صدسال تنهایی که اعصابمو بهم ریخت و حوصله‌مو سر برد، چه این. و البته از گزارش یک مرگ خیلی خوشم اومد و هنوز خیلی آثارش مونده تا قضاوت کنم. ولی کاش مارکزو می‌فهمیدم. برام ناراحت‌کننده‌ست حقیقتاً. از طرفی اسم نمی‌برم با ترجمه کدوم نشر خوندم. ولی حتی من که این‌قد زبانم داغونه، متوجه ترجمه خام‌دستانه و سهل‌انگارانه‌ش شدم. یه ویراستاری درست و درمون هم می‌خواست که علاوه بر رفع عیوب ِ بنیادی و مفهومی ِ کتاب، حداقل از نظر نگارشی جلوه خوبی داشته باشه.

3.5
Da rileggere assolutamente, gustando parola per parola. Questa volta ho apprezzato la storia, la trama, i personaggi e le atmosfere. La prossima mi focalizzerò più sulla scrittura. Come sempre, un buon Marquez.

GİZBOZAR içerir. (gizbozar bundan böyle "spoiler" terimi yerine kullanacağım sözcüktür. Bir grup arkadaşımla birlikte bu sözcüğün yaygınlaşmasına çalışacağız :))

Tam da Marquez tarzı bir anlatı bu. Saçları doğduğundan beri kesilmemiş küçük talihsiz bir kız Sierva Maria. Ruhuna şeytan girmiş, küçük bedenini cinler sarmış, fısıldayıp dururlarmış güya kulağına. Bu cinlerin kudreti, kızcağızı kuduz köpeğin şerrinden esirgemeye yetiyor da ortaçağın vahşi dinsel dogmalarından korumaya yetmiyor ne yazık ki.

Ama ya aşk? Sen niye yetmedin? O karanlık hücrenin tanık olduğu edebiyat tarihinin en güzel aşk hikayelerinden birinin kahramanı sevgili Rahip Delaura, niye alıp götürmedin onu? Madem ölümü aşk yüzünden olacaktı, kollarında ölseydi bari...

Çok romantik yaptı beni bu kısa roman :)

Kitabı her yönüyle beğendim aslında. Aşk hikayesi derinlikli. Karakterler efsanevi. Yan karakterler ve onların hikayeleri de son derece ilgi çekici. Bu kısacık kitaba bu kadar olay, karakterlerin soy sop geçmişleri, duygusal iniş çıkışları dengeli bir şekilde sığdırılmış. Boşuna büyük yazar denmiyor bazılarına.

Előre tudjuk a végét is, azt is, hogy kitalált történet, mégis teljesen bele lehet merülni a világába. Néhol, az egyes szereplők bemutatása köré kanyarított háttértörténetnél ugyan az a benyomásom támadt, hogy megint Bödőcs paródiáját olvasom, annyira nagyot kanyarodott, olyan feleslegesnek tűnő részletekig ismertette az adott karakter múltját, de ezeket a történetszövés hamar feledtette (és nem is vagyok benne teljesen biztos, hogy tényleg lehetett volna húzni belőlük).

Van itt mindenféle szerelmi nyomor. Aki nem választja a szerelmét, hanem a szülők elvárásának felel meg, a másik, aki kikényszeríti a házasságot, a mélységes, kölcsönös utálat, ami ebben a nem akart szövetségben testüket-lelküket megmérgezi, az elszalasztott lehetőség, amit már nem lehet visszahozni.

És persze ott a duplán-triplán tiltott szerelem, aminek nehéz lenne nem drukkolni. Ha. Ha az egyik fél nem gyerek lenne. Nem tudom, az eredetiben is rendszeresen emlékezteti-e az olvasót olyan szavakkal, mint 'kislány', 'gyermek', de nagyon hatásos módja, hogy az ember ne valami klasszikus romantikus szálat lásson itt, aminek szurkolni lehet. Aztán hogy a töketlenkedéssel meg hogy „rendes” úton akarja (engedéllyel, házassággal), összetöri, és halálra ítéli a lányt? Ez van. Nem mindenkinek jár a boldogság.

Reread Abril 2022 - 5 start

One of Marquez best short books the story is beautiful and the narrative style is magical to say the least

This book starts off very slowly and almost slyly, as if someone has started telling a long-winded story and you're really not paying attention, and then, halfway through the story you realize that you're hanging onto every word. If Garcia Marquez explored the metaphor or love as a disease in "Love in the Time of Cholera", then here he centers his story around the metaphor of love as madness and demonic possession. I think the metaphor actually works better than the cholera one. This book feels much simpler than "Love & Cholera" or "100 Years of Solitude", but it's not -- that's just Garcia Marquez's mastery of writing working for you. His writing is so exquisite that it appears effortless, and it feels effortless to read. Also, this book focuses on one incident during a very short period of time and therefore reads very differently than Garcia Marquez's more famous extensive sagas. I think this form shows off his writing even more. One of the other reasons why I particularly liked this book is that I actually liked the main male character, Cayetano Delaura. There's something very sincere and genuine about him. I highly recommend this book -- it's not a long read, and it's a very enjoyable one.

Cada vez me gusta más este autor, su forma de escribir tiene algo que me atrapa.
Sierva María es una niña no querida por sus padres, que en el día de su duodécimo cumpleaños es mordida por un perro, sí, y el perro tiene la rabia.
A partir de aquí se desarrolla la historia, más bien se nos presenta un fresco de la incultura,las creencias sin sentido y las consecuencias de las mismas.
El padre Delaura me ha caído especialmente mal y lo del Obispo es de traca.
Muy recomendable.

Un excelente libro...enamorada de la manera de escribir de García Márquez

“The human body is not made to endure all the years that one may live.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

For me, this read was all over the place, even for a magical realist work, and is another death knell in what appears to be my zero capacity to understand the works of this acclaimed writer. The most linear thing about this read is the book blurb. This is the lowest rated book of his I have read so far, since I started working my way through his collection! 1 out of 12.

2007 read

Márquez never fails to amaze me.

La historia de Sierva María contada por Gabriel García Márquez muy a su estilo me gusto solo que a pesar de ser un pequeño libro tarde en leerlo porque tiene muchas palabras que actualmente y por lo menos en México, ya no se usan y había que consultarlas en el diccionario.