#until august

[sourapplesauces]

Wdym i cant draw for a MONTH..

[ofsilentthings]

I'm reading "Until August", the last bit of novel that Gabriel Garcia Marquez worked on before he died. It's not his best (he wrote it while his memory and metal abilities were fading) but it still has some very good parts.

"Until August" is the story of a happily married woman who, every August 16th, visits her mother's grave and sleeps with a different man. One encounter was rather interesting in its description:

Okay, nice alluring man, showing her authority and guiding the date, not too bad not too bad. Ana is 47, this man "not over 30".

Young man, dressed a little too well. The line "Everything about him was false as his manners, but his feverish eyes looked eager for compassion" is interesting. He's playing at romance but for what end?

Later on Ana is in her room and he comes to her, even though she said no:

I like "She went along with the game, not as herself but as the protagonist of her own narrative". That's all these one night stands have been, an exciting lively side story to her own life. So who is this man who is playing along with *her*? We still don't know.

Later on, they leave the hotel and go to the man's van to watch the eclipse. But there is no eclipse, she knows this, she only wants sex. And he obliges, taking as much from her as she wants. "The inconceivable pleasure of brute force subjugated by tenderness".

But that revelation at the end.

Pale skin

black slicked back hair

antiquated appearance, yet not knowing the most mostern dances

smooth in the art of seduction

serial killer of helpless widows

"the composite sketch of a sad vampire."

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You're not my one night stand, you're Astarion! (with dyed hair but still. I know a sad vampire when I see one).

[crypticcatalys]

Y'all the semester is finally over and my lowest grade is a 87% B+.

I bought a Ps5 and Frontiers of Pandora to celebrate.

[ceezedby]

"Yes, it was a betrayal. But that's what children are for."

[esarkaye]

New Substack piece on Gabriel García Márquez's posthumous novel, Until August, and the ethics of disregarding an author's wishes for their work not to be published.

[theslightestbitofahint]

I did it folks. I submitted my last assignment for the semester. I’m free.

[tantaliart]

it’s been nearly a month without cos lord help me survive the remaining two or so weeks 🙏

[boseobrien]

We died.

[judgingbooksbycovers]

Until August

By Gabriel García Márquez.

[qeleresh]

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[iishtar]

When I first read the manuscript of Until August. I realized with amazement that it was the best possible ending to García Márquez’s body of work. The fact that he decided to write his last novel about a middle-aged woman who explores her sexuality and reclaims a space of freedom in a ‘man’s world’ seemed like a final statement, especially after Memories of My Melancholy Whores. It’s his first novel with a female protagonist, which is a departure and, at the same time, a closure to his narrative world.

Cristobál Pera [x]

[larnax]

gbr i do not think the one overnight a week COMBINED with four fucking shifts a week combined with college is sustainable but what the fuck am i gonna do

[hiphuman2020]

Gabriel García Márquez wasn’t sure about his final novella so he left it for his family to decide. Written in his declining years, Until August is pure Márquez, erotic and full of life.

Her children are grown. “For twenty-seven of her forty-six years she had been in a well-matched marriage with a man she loved and who loved her and whom she married before finishing her arts-and-letters degree, still a virgin and without any previous relationships.”  So begins the mystery of Ana Magdalena’s carnal pursuits. A few years earlier, Ana Magdalena had buried her mother on an island…

[1libroxsemana]

En agosto nos vemos

Ana Magdalena Bach visita a su difunta madre cada año. La rutina de sus viajes cambiarán su vida por completo al cuestionarse su propia existencia viendo la sepultura adornada con flores especiales.

Ana Magdalena Bach visits her dead mother every year. Her trip routine will change her life completely when she questions her own existence while looking at the grave decorated with special flowers.