76 pages 2 hours read

Gabriel García Márquez

Of Love And Other Demons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1994

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Essay Topics

1.

Of Love and Other Demons is considered a work of magical realism. What are some of the novel's elements that make it defined as such?

2.

The Marquis abandons Sierva María twice: once when she is born, and once again when he leaves her at the convent. Why does he do this? 

3.

Sierva María's mother claims she "wouldn't tell the truth even by mistake" (16), and Sierva seems to enjoy lying. Why is she characterized this way? What effects does her lying have on her life?