Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

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This engaging summary presents an analysis of Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez, a classic romance novel which centres on the characters of Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza, whose youthful romance determines the course of the rest of their lives. This masterfully constructed novel constantly alternates between three different timelines while also meditating on the different ways love can manifest itself, the interplay between fact and fiction and the realities of Colombian society in the early 20th century. Gabriel García Márquez was one of the best-known and most-loved Latin American writers of the 20th century, with a career spanning over 50 years. He wrote a series of influential novels, short stories and novellas, including One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chronicle of a Death Foretold and The General in His Labyrinth, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: BrightSummaries.com
• Release date: Mar 29, 2018
• ISBN: 9782808002066

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COLOMBIAN NOVELIST AND JOURNALIST

Born in Aracataca (Colombia) in 1927.

Died in Mexico City in 2014.

Literary awards:

Rómulo Gallegos Prize, 1972 (for One Hundred Years of Solitude)

Nobel Prize in Literature, 1982

Notable honours:

Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Columbia University

Notable works:

One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), novel

Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), novella

Strange Pilgrims (1992), short story collection

News of a Kidnapping (1996), report

Gabriel García Márquez was born in 1927 in Aracataca, a small town in the Department of Magdalena in Colombia. His father was Gabriel Eligio García, a telegraphist and Conservative, and his mother was Luisa Márquez, a colonel’s daughter. In the early years of their marriage, the future writer’s parents moved to Barranquilla, leaving the infant García Márquez in the care of his maternal grandparents.

He attended a number of different schools across the country, and finished secondary school in 1947. He then moved to Bogotá to study law at the National University of Colombia, and published his first short story, La tercera resignación (The third resignation) in the newspaper El Espectador while he was still a student. However, he was forced to return to the Caribbean coast the following year following the civil unrest known as the Bogotazo in 1948. He initially complied with his father’s wishes and continued his studies at the University of Cartagena, but two years later, in 1950, he dropped out of university and moved to Barranquilla to become a journalist. This was where he met the other members of the so-called Barranquilla Group, a group of intellectuals who gave García Márquez the final push he needed