Resumo de Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Memory, passion, infatuation, love, age, death intertwine in Gabriel Garcia Marquez?s Love in the Time of Cholera the story of Florentino Ariza who is ?all love? and the haughty Fermina Daza who chooses to marry the physician Dr. Juvenal Urbino. The novel spans more than fifty years starting from the first time Florentino sets his eyes on the lovely Fermina who with her doe?s gait and swinging braid entrances him completely. Her marriage devastates him bur he copes with a string of women keeping him company, from the Widow Nazaret, Sara Noregia, to the young America Vicuna. He stays close, observing from a distance, admiring and applauding till the fragrance associated with Fermina Daza recedes into the past. The book is also a brilliant analysis of lengthy marriages, of the minuscule details that go into every day living with one another, the idiosyncrasies, loved, hated, hidden and sorely missed when gone. The bickering over tea that tasted of window, sniffing of clothes, of meals that must be perfect ? all deft touches that Marquez slips in. the married couple take time to reach the same conclusion ? that love is never easy. The details of the long years richly comic, of the bantering and the tussles between ego and affection are touching and often funny. A sudden indiscretion causes Fermina to journey far away and even stay away for two agonizing years. Love is not just for the young, every character in the book is concerned with love, some may be searching for love, some like Florentino chasing the elusive dream, and his indomitable patience conquers all. At a ripe old age, well past their prime Florentino and Fermina Daza discover love, companionship and remarkable understanding in the autumn of their lives. They also achieve a happy sexual union. Foucault wrote, sex is not a fatality,it?s a possibility for creative life. And the elderly couple achieve the seemingly impossible in this novel which advocates in every line spontaneity and chaos. No age is too old for love, declares the author and perhaps in a glaring contradiction of our ideals that love is only for the young, it says that perhaps it?s the best time to fall in love, to discover that the roses are brighter and the birds sing louder and that emotions brim over even when one is not young. The stifling heat, the constant epidimics, the civil wars, burning passions and sea voyages serve as a background for the novel. Memory is important, how the alchemy of time transforms all else, how, over time it smooths over the hurt and how the heart?s memory is equipped to move on . The novel, generous in its vision is also about the cruelties of love, about learning to grapple with the two-facedness of ?Amor Vincit Omnia?. Just as love conquers all the forces of social disapproval, so does it destroy; just as it conquers internal resistances, people are also conquered by the sheer ruthlessness of its force. And as for the title, it is the cholera, which becomes an obsession for Dr. Urbino and leads him to treat Fermina Daza who is suspected to have contracted cholera. It is also the stench of cholera which contaminates Florentino?s memories of his love as he journeys to Villa de Leyva to be as far from her as possible after he learns of her impending marriage.

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