If you are already discouraged by love, I recommend that you watch "Love in the Time of Cholera"; if you still have illusions about love; and that you also recommend that you watch "Love in the Time of Cholera".
If love has a hundred looks, then Márquez must have written 101 in Cholera; if the audience saw 100 types of Cholera, there must be another undiscovered version of Cholera hiding behind it.
After reading this book, I was very uncomfortable, full of mixed feelings.
What exactly is love? I don't have an answer.
What I see is the paranoid idealist, who is too pure to be pure to think about how to seduce and gradually stubborn; it is the moment when love is stirred, the young man is desperate to throw himself into it, but he hastily ends in a hurry; it is the rush when facing reality, everyone becomes selfish and self-interested, even if the seemingly helpless choice of the moment is thought later, it is the most useful choice for themselves; it is the greed of people who lament that they cannot get another while bread and love get one The cautious or fearless mentality of all kinds of people who are shackled by the social framework in the face of rules; the animal instinct that loses their minds for the sake of dew; the wisdom of doing everything in order to survive.
Márquez wrote about the suffering of the human world, the coldness of human feelings, and at the same time, he was full of praise for the innocent side of human nature. It is said that one of his inspirations was to see two eighty-year-old lovers killed by a greedy boatman with a boat oar to collect money, and then found out that their underground secret affair had been in the news for nearly 40 years. Perhaps sensing the complexity and innocence of the human heart, he wrote such a nearly impossible story in real life.
Alyssa — a man's mouth, a deceitful ghost
The reason why the concepts of men and women are different is because there are people who have this kind of self-touching
Some people think that he is a proper scumbag, and actually has a face after recording 622 (or more) lovers, when facing Fermina, he said such a faceless sentence as "I have always kept virginity for you"; some people think that he is really a person who has achieved "separation of spirit and flesh", the lower body is responsible for animal desire, and the upper body is responsible for thinking.
When I saw half of this book, because I couldn't contain my heart's desire for the ending, I turned to the end and looked at the ending myself. When I saw this sentence, I really thought that Alyssa had kept her loyalty for Fermina from then on. It turned out later that I was too naïve. Alyssa uses the fact that he has suffered from STDs countless times to tell us that men can never control their lower body, and the book also says that men will be proud of this, thinking that getting STDs is a medal of their own super ability. It really surprised me, but when I think about it, it is very much in line with the social background at that time.
After reading a few more paragraphs, I kind of understood why Alsa could write so many extravagant and sincere love letters to Fermina in the brothel of the warbler and swallow; why he suddenly fell seriously ill on Fermina's wedding day; why he later used infinite dew to cover up his crazy thoughts about Fermina.
I think most of this type of person should be a type of person who is very literate, has a childlike heart of gold, does not eat human fireworks, but will be contaminated with the fireworks of life. But most of these people may not be long-lived, or die young, or be paranoid. Because sooner or later the pure and pure thoughts will devour all their intellect, stubborn enough to develop emotions for objects, because the two of them used to be in the same mirror for 2 hours to buy that mirror, because I blew the evening wind that you blew, so I have already had sex with you in my spirit eight thousand times.
Fermina -- The selfishness, reality and romance of women
-- The choice between love and bread, a victim of a patriarchal society
There is little direct description of Fermina's beauty in the text, but most of them are revealed from the results and conclusions. Having to make people think, "Is she just like that?" No, she's really good. Such a paradoxical idea. Patriarchy is unshakable. But no matter how unshakable it is, it cannot suppress the occurrence of young and vigorous love. When a few years of underground letters, the day of each other's private lifelong sunshine, Fermina's birth as a merchant family and the frameworks she had been indoctrinated since childhood made her abandon her fiancé in front of her. For decades to come, there will always be only one pity for him.
I think Fermina is very selfish, which makes the image of this woman more vivid and real, and also realistic. There is no need for selfless dedication in this story. Just like "Lamb Fat Ball" or "Jinling Twelve Chao", waiting for the connection between these warm and jade women and thrilling turns, to defuse the danger and save people from water and fire.
Fermina knows exactly how to follow her future stagnant path, her memories of what seems to have been a clutch of love, her distortion of facts when telling her son about her first love, and the game of marriage with her husband are all detailed descriptions of her futile struggles. After the death of her husband, she had a sense of loss that Vine Suddenly lost her body. This kind of social bondage and poisoning of female identity is infinitely magnified at such times. I think that's one of the main reasons why she chose to drift forever with a yellow flag.
Urbino -- Decency is the root of the nobility
-- Bound by everything
I see this man I'll always have in my mind with only one word to describe him as "fitting". The right aristocrat, at the right time, returned to the right place, married the right woman, and did the right thing. Everywhere decent, everywhere elegant, everywhere exquisite. I think this is a person with greater responsibility than emotion, and Alyssa, who is always dressed as a beast, is derailed and extremely careful, completing the task as if taking off his pants and drying, running when he is finished, breaking off when he is broken, and his conscience will be greatly condemned. The opposite of Alyssa's personality, growth environment and life goals, she lived a life gracefully. If Fermina finally accepted Alyssa's love, "I don't know more about sympathy or love," then what he said to Fermina before he died, "Only God knows how much I love you," was also fulfilling her last obligation.
The photographer and his lover
I thought I would unfold the description of a pair, but it ended hastily. For this photographer, my favorite is that he chose to die at the age of 60 in order to refuse to grow old.
The 622 lovers of the chairman soared
-- The only thing that impresses me is that lolita, and the pigeon's daughter Alyssa's book "worth recording" a total of 622 lovers, I have the impression that two lost their lives for him (at least that's what I think). Among these lovers, there is no shortage of those who will really give their hearts. Here I would like to quote only a passage from The Moon and Sixpence: "Women are kind and vain by nature, and therefore consider this feeling to be of great spiritual value." But in the face of impulsive enthusiasm, this feeling is defenseless. ”
After reading this book, I think that Márquez is a person with a relatively serious misogyny, and he is also a person who understands women very well. These two points do not contradict each other. It's just that he is very good at using his gender advantages and the sensitivity and meticulousness of a literati. In the text, he does not hesitate to reveal an unfair attitude toward women, and is also full of contempt for women in countless erotic depictions, and vaguely reveals the dislike of homosexual feelings that were heretical at that time.
Countless forms of love appear in this book, innocent, evil, selfish, dedicated, heartless, amorous... While marveling at the author's insight into human nature, he also feels that such a complex human nature is around. Returning to the original question, after reading this book, I could not calmly not only the gorgeous imagination of love, but also the praise of the vigorous vitality of the sunshine, whether born in the mud or not.
I used the excerpted sentence from the Douban book review as the title. Also use this self to extend an ending: everyone is a lonely person, we are alone, single, alone. A lifetime of commitment, a lifetime of companionship, a lifetime of waiting. Everyone just follows the folds of their own hearts and makes their own choices.