Summary
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Love in the Age of Cholera
"Garcia Márquez's voice here reaches a level that is at once classical and eloquent, overflowing and pure, able to praise and swear, laugh and cry, narrate and sing, fall and soar when necessary." Thomas Pynchon, The New York Times.
The history of love between Fermina Dasa and Florentino Arisa, in the setting of a port city in the Caribbean, which lasts more than sixty years, can resemble a melodrama of contradictory lovers who in the end were overcome by the grace of time and the strength of their feelings.
García Márquez likes to use most of the classic sources of traditional series. But this time, the scenario and the characters resemble a tropical mixture of plants and clay that the master's hand shapes and invents at its own will, in order to eventually bring it to the territories of myths and legends. The juices, smells and tastes of the tropics feed the hallucinatory story, which this time arrives at the oscillating door of a happy ending. Gabriel García Márquez was born in Colombia in 1927. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. He is the best character of magical realism and one of the most important and influential writers of (universal) literature.
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