LOVE AND DEATH IN DYING ANIMAL, BY PHILIP ROTH, MEMORIES OF MY MELANCHOLY WHORES, BY GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ AND THE HOUSE OF THE SLEEPING BEAUTIES, BY YASUNARI KAWABATA
LOVE AND DEATH IN DYING ANIMAL, BY PHILIP ROTH, MEMORIES OF MY MELANCHOLY WHORES, BY GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ AND THE HOUSE OF THE SLEEPING BEAUTIES, BY YASUNARI KAWABATA

Summary/Abstract: In a society with a rather strict, taboo-filled morality, sexuality in literature is received by some readers with reluctance. Therefore, I try to reveal in this study that erotism in literature should not necessarily be perceived as something pornographic, but it is often a way of highlighting other aspects. These can be seen in the novels Dying Animal, by Philip Roth, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and The House of the Sleeping Beauties, by Yasunari Kawabata, novels that shocked when they were published by their licentious character, but actually they deal with love discovered in senescence, and with death. The three novels, which at a first glance seem to reveal an eroticism that leads to vulgarity, show the indestructible link between love, even the one discovered at an old age, more or less based on physical attraction, and death - two apparently opposite elements. The protagonists of the love stories are no longer young, and they encounter, which makes them aware of the approach of death, which until then has seemed far away, for only when you have strong feelings towards someone you realize that nothing is eternal.

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