Gabriel García Márquez, El amor en los tiempos del cólera [Love in the Time of Cholera]

Jay Corwin (University of Cape Town)

Ed. by Ben Bollig, University of Oxford
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 5.1.1: Hispanic Writing and Culture of South America.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (University of Western Australia), Ben Bollig (University of Oxford), Ceire Broderick (University College Cork), Nuala Finnegan (University College Cork), Anna Forné (Gothenburg University), Cara Levey (University College Cork), Carolina Orloff (Independent Scholar - Europe), Lori Oxford (Western Carolina University), Ailsa Peate (University of Westminster)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1985

Places

Colombia (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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First published in 1985,

Love in the Time of Cholera

(

El amor en los tiempos del cólera

) relays the fifty year history of Florentino Ariza and his unrequited love for Fermina Daza. The novel is set in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, between the late 19th century and the early 20th. It is Gabriel García Márquez’s fourth major novel, after

One Hundred Years of Solitude

(1967),

The Autumn of the Patriarch

(1975), and

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

(1981). Stylistically it is distinct from the three latter works, and one of the longest of these novels. It is marked, however, by the same issues of improbability that permeate much of García Márquez’s work, as well as by the author’s ability to mix pathos and humour in a satisfying whole.

Love in the Time of Cholera is divided into six

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Citation: Corwin, Jay. "El amor en los tiempos del cólera". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 February 2009 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=19943, accessed 24 April 2024.]

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