By marialeovalless on Skatehive
Love in the Time of Cholera, published in 1985, long before I was born, is one of Gabriel García Márquez's most iconic novels and one of the most profound and complex explorations of love in Latin American literature. Unlike One Hundred Years of Solitude, where magical realism predominates, this work leans toward a more realistic, intimate, and reflective tone, although without losing the author's characteristic poetic prose. Be prepared, because there may be some spoilers ahead. The novel tells the story of Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza, two young people who fall passionately in love in their youth in a port city on the Colombian Caribbean coast at the end of the 19th century. Their romance, built through letters, glances, and promises, is abruptly interrupted when Fermina's father discovers the relationship and decides to separate them. As time passes, Fermina ends up marrying Dr. Juvenal Urbino, a respectable, rational man and symbol of progress, science, and social order. One o