Любовь и смерть

O chem by ni pisal Markes, on vsegda pisal ob odnom i, v sushchnosti, glavnom - o li͡ubvi i o smerti. I povesti, sostavivshie ėtot sbornik - ne iskli͡uchenie. V "Khronike obʺi͡avlennoĭ smerti" geroĭ pogibaet nautro posle pervoĭ brachnoĭ nochi. "O li͡ubvi i prochikh besakh" - zharkiĭ rasskaz o strasti svi͡ashchennika k i͡unoĭ aristokratke - strasti, kotorui͡u ne sposobny izgnatʹ ni molitva, ni post, ni plami͡a kostra. I nakonet͡s v tretʹeĭ povesti li͡ubovʹ prikhodit kak nezhdannyĭ i nezasluzhennyĭ dar v kont͡se bessmyslenno prozhitoĭ zhizni. Li͡ubovʹ i smertʹ, kak talantlivye i opytnye partnery, vedut so stranit͡sy na stranit͡su povesteĭ Markesa svoĭ istinno latinoamerikanskiĭ tanet͡s - otchai͡annyĭ, opasnyĭ i strastnyĭ.

No matter what Marquez wrote about, he always wrote about the same thing and, in fact, the main thing - about love and death. And the stories that made up this collection are no exception. In the Chronicle of the Announced Death, the hero dies the morning after the wedding night. "About Love and other Demons" is a passionate story about a priest's passion for a young aristocrat, a passion that neither prayer, nor fasting, nor the flames of a campfire can banish. And finally, in the third story, love comes as an unexpected and undeserved gift at the end of a meaninglessly lived life. Love and death, as talented and experienced partners, lead their truly Latin American dance from page to page of Marquez's novels - desperate, dangerous and passionate.