Love in the Time of Cholera
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Started: January 3, 2003
Finished: January 7, 2003
Gabriel Garcia Marquez has an interesting way of telling a story. He will paint a picture, a very compelling and breathtaking scene, full of intrigue and shrouded in mystery. Then he will backtrack in time - weeks, months, or even fifty-one years, nine months, and four days - and retrace the steps back to that starting point. However, since the world and the characters are so detailed and intricate, knowing the outcome makes the story that much more interesting.
The three main characters, Fermina Daza, Juvenal Urbino, and Florentino Ariza have an intertwined life of love set around the turn of the century in a Caribbean city. Over the course of more than half a decade, Fermina Daza and Juvenal Urbino has (mostly) stable and (sometimes) happy marriage. Through their union, Gabriel Garcia Marquez portrays both the ups and downs of the married life as well as changes in the feelings between people as they grow old together. Florentino Ariza, Fermina Daza’s first love, waits for over fifty years for Dr. Juvenal Urbino’s death to ask her for hand for the second time. Through him, other notions of love is explored, one of which is that one may love many other simultaneously with different ‘rooms’ for each.
Silence Said,
February 11, 2005 @ 6:58 am
Love in the time of Cholera
Few days back I happened to read the master piece of Marquez, yes none other than ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’. The style in which Marquez has dealt with the characters is splendid. It is sort of away from his ‘One hundred years of…