Whoever said, "Love conquers all" clearly was not living in the world of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Of Love and Other Demons. In this world, the views of love are cynical and skewed, the characters are governed by rules in which the abnormal is considered ordinary, and ... and resentful that they could do nothing but hate each other. Delaura's view of love was one of inaccessibility. He was brought up knowing only what could be learned from books, was lacking worldly experience, and to some extent human interaction. When Sierva Maria entered his life, he was suddenly faced with new possibiliti...

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