Illustration: Stills from the movie Love in the Time of Cholera
You may not have heard of the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, but you should have heard of two of his most classic masterpieces, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera.
In 1982, García Márquez won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his monumental work One Hundred Years of Solitude, which established his position in the world literary scene and was named a literary benchmark of the 20th century.
A few years later, with his novel "Love in the Time of Cholera", he once again set off a hot frenzy and became a phenomenon-level literary phenomenon. It can be said that before reading it, I was only surprised by its influence, and after reading it, I could no longer extricate myself.
The novel tells a love story that lasts for more than fifty years, and the male and female protagonists do not officially get together until they are in their seventies, but they love each other in their own way for a lifetime.
In this novel, the author García Márquez explains to us the possibilities of love, forbearance, fanaticism, selfishness, generosity, contradiction, purity, fragmentation, etc., so this novel is also called: the encyclopedia of love.
In addition, the revelation and thinking brought to us by the novel are all aspects, and it is also known as the greatest romance novel in the history of mankind, which shows how influential it is.
A man named Florentino Arsa, who fell in love with a girl named Fermina, fell in love with her at first sight when he went to their house to deliver a telegram, and then launched a fierce attack until he touched her heart and made her accept his marriage proposal.
At that time, Fermina was still young, and she did not have a deep understanding and cognition of love, but felt that she was not disgusted with him. Gradually, she got used to his pursuits and shows of love, until she couldn't leave him and decided to marry him.
However, because the two families were not right, Fermina's father strongly opposed it and did not hesitate to send Fermina to the countryside and forcibly tear them apart. Later, Fermina married a doctor, ruining any possibility of the two being together.
But Florentino Arsa did not give up, and he vowed to live well until the doctor died, and then chased Fermina back into his hands.
More than fifty years later, at the age of seventy-six, he got his wish, the doctor died in an accident, and he finally confessed to the seventy-two-year-old Fermina and officially came together.
In general, the plot of this novel is not complicated, but the grace and resentment that have lasted for more than half a century have allowed us to see every aspect of love.
Start with Florentino Alsa's pursuit of Fermina, who fell in love with her at first sight and then launched a fierce offensive, a years-long pursuit that tells us what unusual moves a man makes for a woman.
If in the process of getting along with the opposite sex, you have also met someone who treats you like this, then there is no doubt that he probably has ulterior motives for you, and even has been moved.
In this life, it is not easy to meet people who are sincere to themselves, it is even more difficult to meet people who make their hearts move, if you are not disgusted with each other, and there is no problem with his character, then you may wish to try it and give each other a chance.
Fermina was a very wealthy lady from a very wealthy family, and due to the early death of her mother, she was taken care of by her aunt for many years and lived with her aunt. Her father was too busy with business to take care of her, and for her, her aunt was like a mother.
Attending an aristocratic school, she lived an extremely boring life every day, and florentino Alsa, after falling in love with her at first sight, waited for her every day at regular intervals where she passed, seemingly by chance, but in fact it was planned for a long time.
After a few months of perseverance, nothing came of it, because Fermina was accompanied by her aunt no matter what she did, and he had no chance at all, and finally one time, he said directly to her aunt:
"I'm going to meet her alone, and if you don't agree, whatever happens, you're responsible."
The aunt gave in, and he was able to hand over to her the seventy or eighty pages he had written, to let her know his feelings, and from then on, the two began several years of correspondence, and finally he proposed in his heart.
Desperately creating opportunities to be alone is nothing more than to show his heart, if in the process of getting along with the opposite sex, find that he always wants to be alone with you, then you may wish to think about whether he has other feelings for you.
After Florentino Alsa fell in love with Fermina, there was no other woman in his eyes, he felt that she was perfect, flawless, and for her sake he did not think about it, and regarded her as the only hope of life.
The author writes in the novel: "As long as he can see his beloved girl, he is satisfied, and slowly he idealizes her, attributing some impossible virtues and imaginary emotions to her." Two weeks later, he had thought of nothing but her. ”
It can already be seen from this that Florentino Alsa's love for her has reached the point of fanaticism, completely irrational, and this beautification is completely subjective and unfounded.
Sociologist Li Yinhe once divided love into three levels, namely: good feelings, likes and passionate love. From florentino Alsa's series of performances, it can be seen that his love reached the third layer early in the morning, extremely passionate and unstoppable.
Every day he thought about Fermina, tea without thinking, food without thinking, thinking about why she hadn't replied, thinking about whether she had feelings for herself, thinking about what she was doing at this moment.
This longing had affected his normal life and work, so much so that he was later fired directly from the Telegraph Office.
Such love has lost its mind, put the other party in a very high and important position, and once it does not get a response, it will be pessimistic and disappointed, so in some ways, love is too fanatical, but it is very dangerous.
Love for someone can not be hidden, no matter how you hide the other party will perceive, if you are 100% sure that the other party is true love, you may wish to be brave to confess. If the other person also loves you, then everyone is happy, if you don't love, let go as soon as possible, don't let yourself get deeper and deeper.
This "Love in the Time of Cholera" explains to us all aspects of love, as well as the various possibilities of love in the world, if you have been trapped by love, you may wish to change your way of life, read more, learn more, and maybe in other people's stories, you can see your own heart.
Recommending Garcia Márquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera", as the nobel prize-winning author of the Nobel Prize in Literature, it has never disappointed.
One Hundred Years of Solitude Love During The Cholera Period ¥48 Purchase
If you just want to see "Love in the Time of Cholera", you can also buy it separately, but it is not so cost-effective.
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