Book: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

Love in the Time of Cholera

Author: Gabriel García Márquez

Genre: Novels / Fiction and Literature / Latin American Literature / Romantic Novels

Publishing Year: 1985

Language: English / Original Language: Spanish

Original Title: El Amor En Los Tiempos Del Cólera

Description:

"Love in the Time of Cholera" is a novel that masterfully presents a passionate and tragic love story that reveals the complexities of love over time, while offering us a deep and moving vision of human relationships.

The narrative focuses on Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza, a beautiful young woman from high society, who fall in love as teenagers. However, despite this mutual love, the young girl decides to marry Dr. Juvenal Urbino, a respected and wealthy doctor.

However, Florentino never forgets Fermina and waits patiently “fifty years, nine months and four days” to declare his love again after the man she chose to marry dies.

After the death of Dr. Urbino and after being rejected again by Fermina Daza, Florentino Ariza will resume, as in his youth, writing letters to win her over little by little with his passionate language, until he manages to win the favor of his former love.

Finally, in old age, they manage to be together and give themselves to their love on a trip on a boat along the Magdalena River. Where Florentino uses the yellow flag of cholera to ensure privacy on his boat, during his passionate surrender to love with Fermina, while they navigate the bed of a river dead from deforestation and where corpses descend, either with a shot in the back of the head or victims of cholera.

The novel is set in an environment of profound social changes and the cholera epidemic. Where cholera symbolizes the persistence of love despite difficulties and difficult times. Although love prevails as a central theme throughout the story.

In short, "Love in the Time of Cholera" gives us a moving vision of human relationships, exploring universal themes such as hope, perseverance and the ephemeral nature of life, all framed in a fascinating historical and cultural context.