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crowyhead, August 18, 2006

As usual, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's writing is gorgeous and finely crafted, and I understand why this novella was critically acclaimed. It was one of those books that my feminist sensibilities just couldn't let me fully enjoy, however. Women in Marquez's books tend to exist to drive the plot and give the protagonists grand epiphanies, and I've pretty much resigned myself to this. But I had a really hard time getting past it in this one, since basically it's all about how the protagonist is given a new lease on life at ninety by a fourteen-year-old virginal prostitute. Yes, it turns out to be a largely chaste relationship, and yes, he is able to assist the young woman (who is largely nameless in the novel -- the protagonist gives her a name in his mind and has no wish to know who she really is), but she remains an object for his enlightenment, rather than a character in her own right.

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