Love in the Time of Cholera pdf

Gabriel García Márquez fue un novelista, periodista y guionista colombiano, considerado uno de los escritores más importantes del siglo XX. Nació en 1927 en Aracataca, un pequeño pueblo del norte de Colombia.

García Márquez fue criado por sus abuelos, quienes tuvieron una profunda influencia en su vida y escritura. Estudió derecho en la Universidad Nacional de Colombia en Bogotá, pero la dejó antes de graduarse para seguir la carrera de periodismo.

En las décadas de 1950 y 1960, García Márquez trabajó como periodista en Colombia y Europa, cubriendo temas como política, temas sociales y cultura. También comenzó a escribir ficción durante este tiempo y publicó su primera novela, "Leaf Storm", en 1955.

García Márquez es quizás más conocido por su novela "Cien años de soledad", que se publicó en 1967 y se convirtió en un fenómeno mundial. El libro es ampliamente considerado como una obra maestra del realismo mágico, un género que combina elementos fantásticos con la realidad.

A lo largo de su carrera, García Márquez escribió numerosas novelas, cuentos y obras de no ficción. Sus otras obras notables incluyen "El amor en los tiempos del cólera", "Crónica de una muerte anunciada" y "El otoño del patriarca".

García Márquez también fue políticamente activo a lo largo de su vida y fue un crítico vocal del gobierno colombiano y su trato a los grupos marginados. Fue galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1982, en reconocimiento a sus contribuciones al campo de la literatura y su compromiso con la justicia social.

Gabriel García Márquez murió en 2014 a la edad de 87 años, dejando un legado como uno de los escritores más importantes del siglo XX. Sus obras continúan inspirando y cautivando a lectores de todo el mundo, y su influencia en la literatura y la cultura latinoamericanas no se puede subestimar.

Love in the Time of Cholera pdf por Gabriel Garcia Marquez

This great, poetic love story explores the fatal impact of materialism on our vulnerable hearts. It is a lengthy, beautifully written book, presented in a wonderful translation that engulfs the reader in a lush jungle of words.

This engrossing book with its well-structured plot is inhabited by fully formed, intriguing characters. One of the most intriguing parts of the book is the title. Why love in the time of Cholera? What does cholera have to do with love, or with the plot of the book? It would be wrong to seek too dogmatic an answer to this question in an obviously poetic, and anti-dogmatic novel.

Nevertheless, I believe this book is about materialism, about how our craving for money and position can become a cholera-like disease that destroys love. The rest of this review contains passages that some readers might consider spoilers. Very early in the book, we learn that the love between Florentino and Fermina does not flow smoothly because Fermina chooses wealth and security with Juvenal Urbino over the passion offered her by Florentino. In reaction to his loss, Florentino spends his life in pursuit of wealth and fleeting sexual encounters. None of this brings him happiness, and much of his life, both sexual and professional, ends up enmeshed in dubious moral quandaries, destruction and perversion.

I read the story as an indictment of materialism in all its forms. The land in which the book takes place is ultimately decimated by this materialism, the beautiful and romantic forests that provide the lush setting for this book are destroyed, and the characters who inhabit them are no less ravished by their slavish pursuit of wealth rather than true love. In the end, the landscape is in ruins, the characters husks of their former selves. Materialism and disease reign supreme, love is perverted and lost. Any great novel, and Love in the Time of Cholera is a very great novel, cannot be easily reduced to simple themes and dogmatic statements.

Thus what I have written here is an over simplification of a complex book that has many virtues. The book can serve, for instance, as a catalogue of the various types of love or as a meditation on the difference in temperament between logical, rule bound people and those who are governed by romance, by the heart.

There are many other themes that run through the book. For me, however, the primary theme here is the destructive power of materialism, and how the twentieth century became a grave yard for love that was sacrificed to the false god Mammon.