#dios sabe que los intelectuales de esos tiempos se cubrian las espaldas entre si

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I often wonder why in LATAM people are so comfortable praising stories where Gabriel Garcia Marquez is clearly romantizing pedophilia. The fact that to this day and age Memories of My Melancholy Whores is considered a romance is disgusting. A 90 year old fart with a 14 year old virgin 🤢

And I just know I cannot speak or complain about it in public because he has been canonized to such an extent by people, I just know I would get crucified. But it's there, in plain sight, in many of his works, including One Hundred Years of Solitude.

And no, I don't mean that pedophilia should be a taboo subject in literature. I mean that depicting it as something romantic is wrong. At least Nabokov wrote Lolita as a cautionary tale. He NEVER spoke of it as a romance. He was well aware of the fact that Humbert was a predator and spoke disdainfully of him. He even went as far as to ask publishers to NOT put a picture of Lolita on the cover because he didn't want readers to sexualize her. He was fucking AWAKE.