Of potential interest to Nabokovians from the NY Review of Books, Volume 53, Number 3 · February 23, 2006, regarding Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Memories of My Melancholy Whores.

The article brings up interesting connections to VN’s Lolita as the protagonist of MMMW is a virginal 14-year old girl whom the narrator calls “Delgadina [which means Little Slender One]…(His song is not without dark undertones: in the fairy story Delgadina is a princess who has to flee the amorous advances of her father.)”

“América Vicuña, the child seduced and abandoned by an older man, is a character straight out of Dostoevsky. The moral frame of Love in the Time of Cholera, a work of considerable emotional range but a comedy nonetheless, of an autumnal variety, is simply not large enough to contain her. In his determination to treat América as a minor character, one in the line of Florentino's many mistresses, and to leave unexplored the consequences for Florentino of his offense against her, García Márquez drifts into morally unsettling territory. Indeed, there are signs that he is unsure of how to handle her story. Usually his verbal style is brisk, energetic, inventive, and uniquely his own, yet in the Sunday-afternoon scenes between Florentino and América we pick up arch echoes of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita: Florentino undresses the girl…”

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18710