LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA (GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ)
Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 11:11 pm
Love in the Time of Cholera (El amor en los tiempos del cólera, 1985) is a novel by Gabriel GarcÃÂa Márquez about a fifty-year love triangle between Fermina Daza, Florentino Ariza and Doctor Juvenal Urbino set in the late 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century (roughly 1880 to 1930). The novel, a tale of unrequited love, deeply explores the idea that suffering for love is a kind of nobility.
In the film Serendipity this novel is the one that Jonathan (John Cusack) must find in order to retrieve Sara's (Kate Beckinsale) phone number.
In the film High Fidelity, Rob Gordon (also played by John Cusack) makes reference to this book along with The Unbearable Lightness of Being, saying that he's not the smartest guy in the world, but that he's not the dumbest either, having read these books and he thinks he understood them. "They're about girls, right?" he quips.
Steve Martin, in his humorous essay "Writing is Easy," talks about why Love in the Time of Cholera does not make a very good title. It's all tongue-in-cheek of course. The essay can be found in his book Pure Drivel.
In the 21st episode of the sitcom How I Met Your Mother, lead character Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) describes his ideal wife as having Love in the Time of Cholera as her favorite book.
In The Simpsons episode 1F17 Lisa's Rival, Marge is reading a book entitled "Love In The Time Of Scurvy". Also, in the episode titled Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade, Lisa is on the bus reading "Love in the Time of Coloring Books".
The story makes you familiar with numerous kinds of love, relationship and characters. To allay the pain of not getting Daza and to soothe the waiting heart, Ariza searches for love everywhere in whorehouses, in extramarital affairs with women twice her age, in beds of widows .. everywhere. His affairs start with carnal desires and end in love, and some time vice versa.
Marquez has covered a plethora of human emotions is such a brilliant manner that you will not be able keep the book down.
In the film Serendipity this novel is the one that Jonathan (John Cusack) must find in order to retrieve Sara's (Kate Beckinsale) phone number.
In the film High Fidelity, Rob Gordon (also played by John Cusack) makes reference to this book along with The Unbearable Lightness of Being, saying that he's not the smartest guy in the world, but that he's not the dumbest either, having read these books and he thinks he understood them. "They're about girls, right?" he quips.
Steve Martin, in his humorous essay "Writing is Easy," talks about why Love in the Time of Cholera does not make a very good title. It's all tongue-in-cheek of course. The essay can be found in his book Pure Drivel.
In the 21st episode of the sitcom How I Met Your Mother, lead character Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor) describes his ideal wife as having Love in the Time of Cholera as her favorite book.
In The Simpsons episode 1F17 Lisa's Rival, Marge is reading a book entitled "Love In The Time Of Scurvy". Also, in the episode titled Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade, Lisa is on the bus reading "Love in the Time of Coloring Books".
The story makes you familiar with numerous kinds of love, relationship and characters. To allay the pain of not getting Daza and to soothe the waiting heart, Ariza searches for love everywhere in whorehouses, in extramarital affairs with women twice her age, in beds of widows .. everywhere. His affairs start with carnal desires and end in love, and some time vice versa.
Marquez has covered a plethora of human emotions is such a brilliant manner that you will not be able keep the book down.
It's funny how he put pride, vanity, selfishness and love (misplaced, misdirected and otherwise 