''Love in the Time of Cholera” ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
''I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love’’ said Florentino Ariza to Fermina Daza. Indeed, it was true. He waited with a burning in his heart for 51 years, 9 months and 4 days, since he rejected him at the age of twenty.
How many of those eternal love stories have you heard and seen in real life? I have to say, even the legendery Romeo & Juliet or Laila Majnu can be counted only after this masterpiece of Marquez.
Marquez has been my favorite writer ever since I read the Nobel winning One Hundred Years of Solitude. Now I have 6 of his books and 3 are yet to be read.
How do I describe this book? I am at a loss of words. Can I say it is a triangular love story? But I don't know if the relation ship between Dr. Juvenal Urbino and his wife, Fermina Daza was love or as just a successful marriage.
The story begins with Jeremiah de Saint-Amour's death and keeps us guessing who are the lovers? And by a quirk of imagination, Marquez presents us Florentino Ariza, making his second proposal to Fermina Daza, on the eve of her husband's funeral.
As the story of three lives - the doctor, his wife and her former lover - unwinds, the author keeps us hooked with his delicate details and gripping language. And at the end we see the triumph of love in a altogether different light. The author shakes us out of out conventional definition of love and the familiar Shakespearian turns of a love story.
If you have ever loved anyone for reasons that surpass the matters of common human logic, read this. Or you may perish without feeling through Florentina Ariza and his unrequited love.
How many of those eternal love stories have you heard and seen in real life? I have to say, even the legendery Romeo & Juliet or Laila Majnu can be counted only after this masterpiece of Marquez.
Marquez has been my favorite writer ever since I read the Nobel winning One Hundred Years of Solitude. Now I have 6 of his books and 3 are yet to be read.
How do I describe this book? I am at a loss of words. Can I say it is a triangular love story? But I don't know if the relation ship between Dr. Juvenal Urbino and his wife, Fermina Daza was love or as just a successful marriage.
The story begins with Jeremiah de Saint-Amour's death and keeps us guessing who are the lovers? And by a quirk of imagination, Marquez presents us Florentino Ariza, making his second proposal to Fermina Daza, on the eve of her husband's funeral.
As the story of three lives - the doctor, his wife and her former lover - unwinds, the author keeps us hooked with his delicate details and gripping language. And at the end we see the triumph of love in a altogether different light. The author shakes us out of out conventional definition of love and the familiar Shakespearian turns of a love story.
If you have ever loved anyone for reasons that surpass the matters of common human logic, read this. Or you may perish without feeling through Florentina Ariza and his unrequited love.
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posted by Dew Drops at 2:39 AM
5 Comments:
it is generally said Love in the Time of Cholera is better work of Marquez than One Hundred Years of Solitude. I have read the latter and realized one reading is like going through a summary. That was one hell of a book!
Have read One hundred years of solitude....
Must get my hands on this one!
You have a great blog here Alice...
Love stories are good to read on vacations...or while you are travelling...they hardly come true in real life, coz its so complex, at times you also dont know what happening..
But thanks for the review...am gonna donwload few of em soon :)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's works are a gud example of 'magical realism'. I am yet to read this book.
~A~
I too have the book but havent read it. After reading your review i am going to read it soon. It sure seems like a thrilling journey! :)
PS Came here via BVN
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