Love in times of cholera
(Novel by García Márquez)
Brief introduction
Love in the Time of Cholera is a novel by Colombian writer García Márquez, first published in 1985.
The novel tells a love story that spans more than half a century: the hero and heroine fail to marry at the age of twenty because they are too young; after various twists and turns in life, at the age of eighty, they still cannot get married because they are too old. In a time span of fifty years, the author shows all the possibilities of love, all the ways of love.
The novel not only expresses that "it is a dignity to experience the torment of love"
More importantly, it shows the history of Colombia
War and cholera threaten the lives of Latin Americans
And man-made destruction exacerbates the antagonism between man and nature
People's social loneliness makes people lack understanding and trust between people
The psychological distance increases
Background[top left]
The direct origin of the creation of "Love in the Time of Cholera" was that Márquez saw a news in the newspaper: a pair of old men who had come to their hometown forty years ago to relive their honeymoon trip were beaten to death by the boatman who took them on a trip, in order to rob them of the money they had brought. They are a pair of secret lovers, who have been on vacation together for forty years, but each has a happy and stable marriage, and the story of the children and grandchildren is mixed with the love story of their parents when they were young, laying the time span and tension structure for the writer's fiction, but Márquez's more important creative opportunity stems from his personal understanding of love and his understanding of Latin American culture.
Márquez spoke to his parents several times during his novel writing, and he was planning to write a novel that reflected their lives. The story begins with García Márquez's father. His father, Gabriel Erisio García Martinez, was a telegrapher, poet and violinist, and in his class he was a popular young man, like Florentino in the novels. By chance, he came to the home of the elderly Colonel Márquez and fell in love with the Colonel's daughter. On a hot afternoon in March 1925, under the shade of an almond tree in Colonel Márquez's house, he revealed his heart to this beautiful girl named Louisa, saying that he could not sleep because of her, that he had no other woman in his heart, that he must marry her, or even marry her immediately; that he would give her only twenty-four hours of consideration.
However, the girl was unable to give any answer, for at this time her aunt, Francesca Simodocesa Mexia, was walking toward the almond tree. She is the prototype for Aunt Escolastika Dasa in Love in The Time of Cholera. Gabriel Erisio gave her the nickname "Kerberos" because she watched her niece inseparably and became the star of all the lads who wanted to pursue Louisa. But Louisa eventually secretly agreed to Gabriel Erisio's marriage proposal.
Knowing that his daughter was secretly destined for life, Colonel Márquez was so angry that the operator would not be allowed to enter his house again. But the young couple did everything they could to stay in touch. The telegraph operator grew bolder and began to serenad his lover under the window—as Florentino Ariza did for Fermina Dasa. Louisa's parents felt that only distant distance could uproot the fiery love affair of the young man. So it was like lourenço dasa in the novel. However, Gabriel Erisio did not accept defeat. He set a more ingenious strategy, and with the cooperation of the telegraph operators of the towns louisa passed along the way, the two made close contact by telegraph. The same situation appears in Love in The Time of Cholera. Needless to say, it was Gabriel Erisio's love story that inspired his son sixty years later to create Love in the Time of Cholera. The love story between them is legendary in itself, and even if it is intact, it is a very readable literary work. But Márquez didn't stop there, he added other people's love stories, including his own.
Person Background [Upper Left]
Florentino Alyssa
The protagonist, after his failed pursuit of Fermina Dasa. Then they fell into the sexual frenzy of frequent adultery with many women. Trying to replace Fermina Dasa with all the women he could get his hands on was a blasphemy against love in the name of love. He pursues Fermina Dasa passionately while he is old and finally wins her love. It should be said that there is both true love out of sincerity and persistence in rewarding failure, and only under the inspiration of Fermina Dasa's sincere treatment of him and love for him, his love has become more and more innocent, so that he has appreciated the sweetness of happy love in the twilight years.
Márquez's Florentino Alyssa should be regarded as a rare artistic model in love literature. He can not forget his original lover in any situation, and he can seduce other women in any situation. He is stubborn, promiscuous, and brazen.
Fermina Dasa
Florentino Ariza's lover, wife of Juvinal Urbino. In the author's pen, Fermina's love is deep and hesitant. After Dr. Urvino's death, Alyssa cut off contact with other women and loved Fermina with all her heart, no less passionately than she had. Fermina, however, was conflicted and hesitant, and eager for Alyssa, she repeatedly replied to him with lukewarm words: "I have nothing else to ask for, I am seventy-two years old." "I don't know what it means to meet the old one."
Huvinar Urbino
Doctor, husband of Fermina Dasa. Juvinar Urbino said that his marriage to Fermina Dasa was the result of a medical error, not a complete joke, and that their relationship from beginning to end was indeed difficult to appreciate much of the element of love. In his youth, he offered her material pleasures. When he was old, she offered him living assistance, which was all about their fifty-one years of harmonious marriage.
Love in the Time of Cholera
In this book, there are two kinds of love, one is stable and stable, hand in hand for a lifetime; the other is persistence, firmness, and the pursuit of perfection. The protagonist who is persistent and determined and burns out his life for love is Alyssa, the newspaper delivery man.
Once by chance, he met the beautiful Fermina
That night, he did not sleep all night, and wrote dozens of love letters to her, but the girl was accompanied by her aunt, and Alyssa could not send the love letters, so he could only sit by the road where the girl passed every day to see her.
Over time, the aunt sensed Alyssa's thoughts and felt that the boy was very affectionate, so she secretly matched them.
Later, the relationship between the two was discovered by the girl's father, who intimidated the boy and could only forcibly take the girl out on a tour. During this time, though, they have been secretly communicating.
When the trip is over, the girl finds that she is only in love with the person in the fantasy, so she firmly breaks up. Alyssa was very sad.
Some feelings will become weaker and weaker, and some will become more and more intense
After Alyssa fell seriously ill, she began to climb up the high society, and waited for the girl to marry the girl after the death of her husband, and after more than fifty years, the girl's husband finally died, and she also became an old woman full of fermentation, Alyssa won Fermina's heart again with her sincerity and love.
Dr. Urbino was a powerful queen and Fermina's husband. At that time, the doctor returned from studying abroad, met the beautiful Fermina, and fell in love at first sight.
But Fermina is celebrating her failed first love, so she is disgusted by the pursuit of a doctor.
Fermina's father, bent on marrying his daughter into the family of the magnates, had been frightened by a gun when he saw the newspaperman pursuing his daughter, and helped deliver the letter when he saw the doctor pursuing his daughter.
Later, the girl married a doctor, a smooth and smooth life, daily trivialities consumed the only love between them, the doctor said, the most important thing for a loving couple is not happiness, but stability.
Real life grinds love, and only companionship is left. However, such a long-term companionship can also be regarded as a kind of love.
Before dying, the doctor said to his wife, "You never know how much I love you." ”
Two kinds of love
Is it marriage to accompany you to old age, or to burn yourself vigorously and madly
Which is better is inconclusive.
Every story is like love, but every one is not [crying]
Classic Quotes [Top Left]
"I travel because I decided I wanted to go, not because I was interested in the scenery." —García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
Man does not come out of the womb and remain unchanged, on the contrary, life will force him to be reborn again and again. —García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
An honest lifestyle is actually to act according to the will of your body, eat when you are hungry, and do not lie when you love. - Márquez, "Love in the Time of Cholera"
Love, first and foremost, is an instinct, "either born or never." —García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
Taking advantage of this opportunity to take advantage of this young age and try to taste all the pain is not something that will happen at any time in a lifetime. - Márquez, "Love in the Time of Cholera"
When a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall that she can't jump over, no fortress she can't push down, no moral concern she can't leave behind, and in fact there is no God who can control her. Make such a decision with caution. —García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
Fermina, I have been waiting for this opportunity, it has been 51 years, 9 months and 4 days, during this time, I have always loved you, from the first time I saw you, until now, I expressed my vow to you for the first time, I will always love you, faithful. - Márquez, "Love in the Time of Cholera"
Love at any age is reasonable. The love of the heart is above the waist, and the love of the flesh is down the waist. A woman of any age has an irreproductible beauty that she presents at that age. What she has lost because of her age, she has made up for it because of her character, and she has won more because of hard work. The only thing worse than a bad body is a bad reputation. - Márquez, "Love in the Time of Cholera"
The love of the soul is above the waist, and the love of the flesh is below the waist. - Márquez, "Love in the Time of Cholera"
One of our most common virtues is to go along with our misfortunes. - Márquez, "Love in the Time of Cholera"
Reasons for recommendation
Another of Márquez's masterpieces is still a magic reality, still a grand epic, but this time, Márquez is depicting love as a theme. Márquez's love often has a magic power: that is, the protagonist can produce a deep and intense love between electric light and flint, without foreshadowing, without saying much, just a letter or a look, it will fall in love and unswerving. In this work, Márquez wrote about all the love in the world, eternal and short, warm and plain, greedy and sincere, love is no longer a erratic thing in his pen, but has become a work of art that can be shaped. When you finish reading this "the greatest love novel ever written by mankind", you will find that we still have too much to understand about love; we still have too many unknowns about life.
"That fortuitous glimpse caused a great love catastrophe that lasted for half a century." It is said that "Love in the Time of Cholera" is an encyclopedia of love, in fact, there is no encyclopedia, only a love. There is only one.
What is the love in your heart
Even if you're a stinky piece of
You will also meet a shell lang who is full of love in his heart
Thousands of miles to find you
Then treat you like a little baby
It's not far away to get you home
Take good care of you
I'm afraid you've been robbed
I'm afraid you'll be squashed or hit a rock
Single-mindedly want to turn you into a treasure of the town house
"Can you believe it?"
"I believe it"
Sometimes the world is just so good
You have me, I have you