Some people call the protagonist of "Love in the Time of Cholera" Alyssa "abusive infatuation", he has made 622 girlfriends in 51 years, experienced worldly love, but still can't forget his first love. This may also be why boys can't forget their first love, "Love and can't always be the best", but Alyssa, after 51 years, survived her love enemy and eventually became a family member with her first love.
The story of this work, in fact, we ordinary people still seem to be more absurd, and after breaking up with the first love, we actually experienced 622 relationships in 51 years. But behind the absurdity, you can always see reality.
In the eyes of many people, "Love in the Time of Cholera" has a lot of descriptions of sexual desire, like Wang Xiaobo's "Golden Age" and Duras's "Lover", which is almost a yellow novel, but it is a book about love, through More than 600 loves in Alyssa's 51 years, let people know about each type of love.
Among Alyssa's many lovers, there are many types of women such as maids, widows, prostitutes, etc., who have experienced many kinds of love, and each woman is just a page in Alyssa's book, which is his spiritual compensation after the loss of his love.
All of this originated from a love at first sight, Alyssa fell in love with Fermina after seeing him, and that feeling was like Zhang Sheng, who had just met Cui Yingying in "The Tale of the West Chamber", and continued to pursue with love letters.
Fermina is finally touched by Alyssa's pursuit, but the relationship is destined not to be smooth sailing, and their love is met with opposition from Fermina's father, who sends Fermina to her uncle's house far away.
Time is the best medicine for forgetting a person, and when Fermina sees Alyssa again, she seems to no longer have feelings for him, and when Alyssa is rejected, she is very sad in her heart, and her own goddess is also married to someone else.
After he made his first girlfriend, he began to indulge himself, quickly came out of the shadow of lost love, and constantly enjoyed the pleasure of having a girlfriend, imagining Fermina's shadow from other women.
For the next 51 years, he didn't get married, but kept making girlfriends, and after 622 girlfriends, Fermina's husband died, and the two were finally together after 51 years of love.
The story of the novel takes place during the cholera period, and Márquez adds several meanings to cholera, cholera is naturally a disease, and cholera is also a heart disease, that is, love, although love is beautiful, but it tortures people like cholera, Alyssa's love is a kind of cholera, he loves Fermina so much, but still loves it, that feeling is like having a serious illness, the sequelae after the serious illness is crazy to make girlfriends, to give themselves a sense of security, but the heart still can't forget Fermina.
While his mother was preparing to help him out of the cholera, a woman raped Alyssa on a boat, and from then on he discovered that sex could make him forget his thoughts about Fermina.
The disease caused by love can only be cured by love, and these 51 years of treatment only alleviate his cholera, and also began a 51-year hunting journey, 622 lovers wrote 25 of his books, as if they were his booty, and the final cure was after 51 years, when both of them were old people, that was the most romantic time in the life of the two.
Letters exchanged, so that they accompanied them for life, the elderly widowed Fermina, helpless, she needed to live, needed to live reasons and courage, and at this time Alyssa just met her needs, constantly through the exchange of letters, help her find the courage to live, help her find the memories of the past.
Seeing the letter, she found that Alyssa was no longer the romanticist she had been before, but rather a wise man, and Fermina sighed when she saw the letter
From there, she discovered a strange Florentino Ariza whose insights did not match the fiery love letters of his youth. His words were more like the words of a man whose aunt Escolas Tica believed to have been inspired by the Divine. The thought made her as scared as she had when she first received his letter."
Because of this transformation, Fermina once again accepted him.
This relationship has lasted for half a century, and the love has gone from disillusionment to rebirth, and finally at the last moment of life, it has been reborn after disaster.
"Love in the Time of Cholera" is more like a state of life than love, especially in the face of aging, the former love triangle has a different attitude towards death, Fermina's husband is more afraid of death; Alyssa is rational about aging and death, which is a natural law, to cherish the present, more importantly, the closer to death, may be closer to love, as long as you cherish life, you can always live to the moment with Fermina.
So Alyssa's attitude also represents Márquez's attitude, love is life, love is life.
"One Hundred Years of Solitude" is written in Latin American epics, while "Love in the Time of Cholera" is written about our daily life, and it is easier to be moved when reading "Love in the Time of Cholera", but it is an encyclopedia of love, but also a book that inspires us to face life positively, in the face of death, in the face of love, to face it calmly.
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