"Inevitably, the smell of bitter almonds always reminds him of his fate after love is blocked."
The classic Márquez-esque beginning, standing in the future and looking back at the present, dozens of words introduce time and space into the big concept, which is very heartfelt, but also difficult to understand. I vaguely remember when I first read "One Hundred Years of Solitude", after turning over the whole book, I still dare not say that I have read it, the complex character relationship and the magical plot, I can only admit that the master's thoughts are still too far away from ordinary people, reading this book is like a martial arts xiaobai who wants to practice martial arts without laying solid basic skills, too self-measured, and too hurtful.
After a period of several years of recovery, finally have the courage to open Márquez again, this "Love in the Time of Cholera" is márquez's work after winning the Nobel Prize, the magic realist master this time the text is actually very grounded, a story about love will always be easier to read than an epic, this book that broke the "no good work after the Nobel Prize" spell, really good interpretation of what is love.
The male protagonist of the book, Alyssa, meets the childhood goddess Fermina in her twilight years, and the times have passed, both of them have reached the end of their lives, and the youthful childhood love has begun to be awakened in the dust of memory, the secret and fanatical correspondence of decades ago, the inner throbbing of youth, that is really a very beautiful thing, but they are not together after all.
Beautiful love is not the enemy of reality, there is a famous and rich doctor Amoul and the young poor boy, Fermina has no reason not to choose the former, Fermina became a rich wife of high society overnight after marriage, social status is stable, fame and fortune, and Alyssa is still struggling at the bottom, those ideas, those obsessions, before these things become real money and silver, in fact, worthless, the beginning of this love that spans half a century is not romantic, this is a cruel story, although cruel, but very realistic, because, Love is inherently realistic.
The reason why love is great may be because it is so complicated, for thousands of years countless poets, writers, philosophers have tried to give love a definition, but no one can read love. The reason why "Love in the Time of Cholera" is great is definitely not because the book talks about love thoroughly, but on the contrary, the greatness of this book is that he has no self-control to explain what love is.
The reason why this book is regarded as a guideline by countless people is not because he gives any definition and teaches what method, but because this encyclopedia of love has written too many worldly changes, and countless people can find their own shadows from it - ignorant and green love, pain that cannot be sought, couples who seek perfection, indulgent and wanton hiding, ordinary and great each other, persistent and persistent lovesickness, sudden throbbing of the incident...
There are thousands of kinds of love in the world, romantic, plain, low-key, warm, amorous, single-minded, righteous, forward-looking, looking forward, looking for flowers and asking willows to hide their inner sorrows, and the husbands and godsons who are unwilling in their lives... You may find its symbolism in the book. A good work does not lie in what he tells you, on the contrary, a good work will only guide you, perhaps you can lead from the apparent storyline to your own experience, and finally discover what is the truth by yourself.
"The world is not as good as you think, but it is not as bad as you think", the object of this sentence is also applicable to love, but the requirements for wanting to find the beauty of love are really high and very high, and you can experience beautiful love through the chicken feathers of life, which is something that ordinary people can't do, which requires the precipitation of time and the improvement of experience, which means that you have reached a very high level in time and space. And it is really not easy to really reach such a state, to obtain such a sense of inner fulfillment and satisfaction. There is a lot of love in "Love in the Time of Cholera", and there is a lot of bitter and deformed love, but Márquez can find the last beautiful things through these, which is the skill.
The love between Fermina and Urbino actually has many contradictions, and in her later years, Fermina even lamented that she was a "woman who no longer desires any other kind of happiness except death", but we still can't deny the happiness they once had, love or habit, and after fifty years of companionship, they are really inseparable from anyone in the end.
Fermina's father broke up Alyssa and Fermina, but he loved so much when he was young, and many people just regarded Fermina's father as a superficial person, but his unknown side, the impulse of his youth, was not the most beautiful thing in love?
Ascetic abomination life Amor, in the face of death can also feel the sweetness of love, a person who has wandered all his life but has a secret lover who has been in love with him for more than twenty years, that is a sense of familiarity with the world, a person who has no life, no hobbies, we are actually difficult to define whether he is alive or dead, but such a hidden love, but to add a little human flavor to him, but also to die without regrets.
Alyssa replaces the love for Fermina with passion, which is a deformed indulgence, relieving his own pain in the indulgence, such love is actually very deformed, but in the end Fermina and Alyssa still continue a twilight love, his last thought is "eternal life and eternity", who can say that he was not happy at that moment?
The love of the world is inexhaustible, but all types of love can find a little resonance and inspiration in this book, which is the greatness of this book.