Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel García Márquez(1985)
Novelc. 350 pages
“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them.”
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by Gabriel García Márquez(1985)
“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them.”
Gabriel García Márquez(1985)
Florentino Ariza loves Fermina Daza, is rejected, waits fifty-one years, nine months, and four days for her husband to die, then renews his suit. García Márquez calls it his most romantic novel, though the romance encompasses obsession, degradation, and decay. The prose is lush with tropical heat, the Caribbean coast vivid in every sentence. The ending, on a boat flying a cholera flag to prevent anyone from coming aboard, offers a vision of love as refusal, as quarantine, as the only answer to mortality.