"There is no greater hell in the world than a happy marriage!" Thus begins the work – fiery, vibrant, free and full of passion, as only Gabriel Garcia Marquez knows how to create. A wealthy Latin American couple is approaching their silver wedding. This is an appropriate moment to hold an accounting of life. But the woman, whose name is Graciela, is as if alone in front of a mute man, no more than a puppet. Graciela opens with a monologue, or a failed dialogue, about happiness and its absence, about disappointments, loss of trust and respect, betrayals and lies, and about time that has passed and will never return. "A Love Speech Against a Seated Man" is a sharp indictment, and at the same time the story of the history of a life together and of what is hidden in the abode of couples behind the closed door. It is a portrait of a woman who outlines her life in her clear voice. There is no magical realism in the beautiful work before us; the only magic is García Márquez's language. An entire world is created in all its colors with a few quick, sharp brushstrokes, engraved on the paper.