Die Liebe in den Zeiten der Cholera
Florentino Ariza waited more than half a century to renew his oath of eternal fidelity and undying love to Fermina Daza, his love from his youthful days, who, after a long and frustrated love affair, had already rejected him once and married someone else.
Love in the Time of Cholera (1985) is an authentic love story. Florentino Ariza, Fermina Daza, Juvenal Urbino, Jeremiah de Saint-Amour, Hildebranda Sánchez and many other transient characters in this novel are marked by that miraculous and captivating quality that can only be compared to human beings – love.
The basic story of the insatiable and immortal love of Florentino Ariza for Fermina Daza weaves the plot of the novel from the moment they met in their early youth until the fairy-tale ending at the end of their lives. Like every great love, this one is tragic, sentimental, powerful and poetic, but the writer's delicate hand will pull it out of the stereotype of the love pattern, constantly surprising us with other and different episodes. The writer's basic tool is an exceptional sense of humor, comedy and joking at almost every step, even in the most pathetic and moving scenes. This unsurpassed sense of humor blends with an equally insightful sense of detail.
This is certainly one of the most beautiful novels dedicated to boundless old age love, and in a certain way also an ode to married love with all its difficulties, boredom, intolerability and with that infinite attachment that is born from the years spent together.
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