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From September 27, 1976, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "The Autumn of the Patriarch."
The works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez contain a great deal of love, depicted as a doom, a demonic possession, a disease that, once contracted, cannot be easily cured. Not infrequently the afflicted are an older man and a younger woman, hardly more than a child. In "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (1967; English translation 1970), Aureliano Buendia visits a very young whore:
The adolescent mulatto girl, with her small bitch's teats, was naked on the bed. Before Aureliano sixty-three men had passed through the room that night. From being used so much, kneaded with sweat and ...