J.M. Coetzee on Memories by García Márquez

"García Márquez might take a look too at the Merchant's tale, the sardonic story of cross-generational marriage in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, and in particular at its snapshot of the couple caught in the clear dawn light after the exertions of their bridal night, the old husband sitting up in bed in his nightcap, the slack skin of his neck quivering, the young wife beside him consumed in irritation and distaste."