Of Love and Other Demons

No matter what Márquez writes, in essence he writes about love. About love—both “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and “Love and Other Demons,” and, of course, “Of Love and Other Devils”…

Young Marchioness Maria was considered possessed by demons and locked in a monastery. A young priest, Cayetano, took it upon himself to save her soul.

The friends and the pious nuns forgot an old Spanish proverb: “When fire is brought to gunpowder, you can’t expect anything good.”

And what next?

Love! Passion!

And the demons of love and passion, as is known, cannot be driven out by fasting, prayer, or even the flames of a bonfire…