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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
lighthearted
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I despised Florentino Ariza for his promiscuous, irresponsible life and the way he manipulated the emotions of countless women just to numb the pain of losing Fermina Daza. My hatred deepened when he pulled América Vicuña, that innocent, fragile young girl, into the shallow waters of his selfish lust — ultimately sending her down a path of ruin and death.
In contrast, I adored Fermina Daza and Dr. Juvenal Urbino. Their elegance, intellect, and refinement made them feel dignified, cultured, and truly human. They embodied maturity and depth in a world where so many chase shadows of love.
But what shook me the most — what still lingers like a whisper in my bones — was the fear of aging this book stirred in me. That even a woman like Fermina, so full of grace and quiet power, would one day face betrayal in old age... It terrified me. It made growing old feel like a cruel trick, a stage where dignity can still be shattered.
In contrast, I adored Fermina Daza and Dr. Juvenal Urbino. Their elegance, intellect, and refinement made them feel dignified, cultured, and truly human. They embodied maturity and depth in a world where so many chase shadows of love.
But what shook me the most — what still lingers like a whisper in my bones — was the fear of aging this book stirred in me. That even a woman like Fermina, so full of grace and quiet power, would one day face betrayal in old age... It terrified me. It made growing old feel like a cruel trick, a stage where dignity can still be shattered.
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
slow-paced
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Armando Durán's narration is so relaxing and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's prose is so beautiful and yet some of the things these characters do and say especially Florentino Arisa are just so vile you can't move on from it
I don't know how else to describe how evocative this book is without saying how much it reeks. It smells like flowers, perfumed paper, asparagus piss, cotton dresses, anisette, almonds, sex, sweat, shit, and swamp. So much of the story is just the setting: the colonial city, bloated and decaying, the river where manatees swim with corpses, the sea with its false treasures. Beauty and ugliness, life and death sleep side by side here and García Márquez captures it in rich detail. The characters themselves are all fascinating and full of contradictions. Florentino Ariza is passion and sickness incarnate, so full of it that he could keel over and die at any moment, but he clings onto his youth the longest. Juvenal Urbino is a man of society, hellbent on eradicating cholera and cleansing the city, yet he too eventually succumbs to the fits and throes of passion, to the detriment of his wife. And Fermina Daza, trapped between these two extremes, never fully quite getting a foothold on her own happiness until she's almost ready to die. It's all sad as hell, especially when you think of the collateral damage left in the wake of this "love story." But García Márquez has a very tongue-in-cheek sense of humor that made me laugh even with so many terrible things going on, like he's jerking his thumb back at his own characters saying "Get a load of these motherfuckers." What an emotional and visual literary roller coaster.
i did not resonate with this book whatsoever. still, márquez’s prose is quite nice and there were many beautiful (but also many questionable) lines about love and age. i hope i never cross paths with a man like florentino ariza…
I absolutely adored it! Marques is a true artist. It's amazing how he captures all the feelings and how he succeeds in representing the raw reality entangled within a surreal world. I must cite just a couple of sentences where he describes with an impressive accuracy the feelings of a man coming back to his native country after a longer residence abroad: (He was still too young to know) that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. But when he stood at the railing of the ship and saw the white promontory of the colonial district again, the motionless buzzards on the roofs... only then did he understand to what extent he had been an easy victim to the charitable deceptions of nostalgia. ... Little by little he grew accustomed to the sultry heat of October, to the excessive odors... and at last he gave in to the spell of habit. It did not take him long to invent an easy justification for his surrender. This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.
حتى الان لم استطع ان افهم لماذا أنهيت هذه الرواية بعدة أسابيع وليست بعدة أيام, هل كان السبب عدم قرأتي للكتب في اللغة العربيه وتفضيلي للروايات في اللغه الانجليزية, أم لأنني لم أرد ان انهي قراءة هذه الرواية.
انها رواية حب غريبة ومثيره للدهشه, بعد محاولة اولى وثانيه وبعد سنة وسنتين... ثلاث وخمسين سنة وستة شهور وأحد عشر ليلة حتى كانا سوية. تتعدد الشخصيات في الرواية لكن محورها حول ثلاثة شخصيات وكل ما دار في حياتهم منذ ان كانوا شبابا حتى الشيخوخة, وهم الدكتور خوفينال اوربينو, فيرمينا داثا وفلورينتينو اريثا.
SPOILER ALERT**وفي نهاية الحب في زمن الكوليرا, بعد الحب الأول ومحاولة النسيان ومن ثم القفز من علاقة الى أخرى ومن مرأة لأخرى وكثرة العلاقات العابره استطاع فلورينتينو اريثا الحصول على الأحب على قلبة في نهاية الأمر.
انها رواية حب غريبة ومثيره للدهشه, بعد محاولة اولى وثانيه وبعد سنة وسنتين... ثلاث وخمسين سنة وستة شهور وأحد عشر ليلة حتى كانا سوية. تتعدد الشخصيات في الرواية لكن محورها حول ثلاثة شخصيات وكل ما دار في حياتهم منذ ان كانوا شبابا حتى الشيخوخة, وهم الدكتور خوفينال اوربينو, فيرمينا داثا وفلورينتينو اريثا.
SPOILER ALERT**وفي نهاية الحب في زمن الكوليرا, بعد الحب الأول ومحاولة النسيان ومن ثم القفز من علاقة الى أخرى ومن مرأة لأخرى وكثرة العلاقات العابره استطاع فلورينتينو اريثا الحصول على الأحب على قلبة في نهاية الأمر.
adventurous
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes