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Loading... Love in the Time of Cholera (original 1985; edition 2003)by Gabriel García Márquez (Author), Edith Grossman (Translator)
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I wanted to like this so bad but it was truly a slog. This is one that I had to turn to an audiobook for because it was making not want to read anymore. And I tore through One Hundred Years of Solitude. I would really love to have someone who loved it explain to me why it is something that is so widely and publicly commended.Basically, if you like things that move quickly, absolutely avoid this book. If you like to torture yourself like me, give it a try. I had to give it three stars because it wasn't trash, but I cannot in good conscience give it four and put it up there with books I actually enjoyed.
Ik hou van mannen als Márquez. Wijze, erudiete mannen. Ze vertellen mij dat het niet verkeerd is om gematigd en rustig te zijn, of zelfs af en toe te twijfelen. In deze tijd van mediacratie, waar de makkelijk pratende mensen het voor het zeggen hebben, de vorm dus voor de inhoud gaat (en ik iedere keer merk dat ik, tot mijn grote ergernis, ook de neiging heb om aan die trend mee te doen) ervaar ik hen als een oase van rust. Een geruststellende hand op de schouder die zegt dat ik niet altijd op scherp hoef te staan en dat het misschien wel een goed idee is om even een pauze te nemen. Suppose, then, it were possible, not only to swear love ''forever,'' but actually to follow through on it - to live a long, full and authentic life based on such a vow, to put one's alloted stake of precious time where one's heart is? This is the extraordinary premise of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's new novel ''Love in the Time of Cholera,'' one on which he delivers, and triumphantly. Is contained inStrange Pilgrims | Love in the Time of Cholera | One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez One Hundred Years of Solitude | Love in the Time of Cholera | One Day After Saturday by Габриэль Гарсиа Маркес One Hundred Years of Solitude | Love in the Time of Cholera | Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude | Strange Pilgrims | Love in the Time of Cholera | The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garsia Markes Gabriel Garcia Marquez Collection: Love in the Time of Cholera, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, of Love and Other Demons, the Story of a Shipwrecked Sai by Gabriel García Márquez Has the adaptationHas as a studyHas as a commentary on the textHas as a student's study guideAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career, he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he does so again. No library descriptions found. |
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I think it’s a sad book but a very realistic one: the impurities and imperfections of life and love - learning to make do, controlling people, being governed by fears and emotions, transient happiness, being shot, buffeted and ricocheting through life like a pinball until an errant parrot brings about one’s demise.
As my fifth (maybe sixth?) Marquez, I feel qualified to say his books can go one of two ways: brilliance or bore-fests. I have enjoyed such works as ‘Chronicle of a Death Foretold’ and ‘Voyage of the Shipwrecked Sailor’ but also hated ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ and now this. Partly I put it down to not being particularly romantic or liking fantasy but more so with this novel I just wanted to shake self-awareness into the characters. Granted, at the time the book was set, tradition and family pressures were rife, but I found it relatively infuriating that most of the characters spent their time pretending they were happy, oblivious they were unhappy or chasing idealistic ideas of happiness.
As a chronicle of time, I think it was really well done and brilliantly showed how time catches up with all of us (hence 2 stars not 1!) but ultimately not for me Gabriel, sorry, 2/5. ( )