"Love In The Time Of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez's novel Love in the Time of Cholera is, on one level, the inspiring story of a love that lasted over fifty years and was consummated only when the two people (Fermina Daza and her devoted Florentino Ariza) reached old age.

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"Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel Love in the Time of Cholera is, on one level, the inspiring story of a love that lasted over fifty years and was consummated only when the two people (Fermina Daza and her devoted Florentino Ariza) reached old age. It is an involving story that keeps the reader attentive to the fortunes of the principal characters and entertained by the many digressions the author makes along the way. Yet the very title of the book hints that there is something more to the story. In the contrast between "love" and the plague of cholera it may seem that this is merely a story of the triumph of humanity's great achievement--romantic love--over the forces of nature that work against human happiness and well-being. As Mona Simpson notes, however, for Garcia Marquez "individual happiness is not considered an absolute good" and in this novel, as in others, he ..."

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