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A review by savaging
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
2.0
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is so skilled at telling a story. And I was charmed to realize the subject was just a lot of love and a lot of sex, not any big macho narrative. But as I continued reading, the characters became increasingly horrifying to me.
I love that this is a romance novel where everyone's a real body, with digestion problems and unpleasant odors. But when this "well people are imperfect" stance extended to racism, pedophilia, rape, misogyny...I no longer saw these characters as charming deep down underneath it all, and I lost all interest in the plot.
I love that this is a romance novel where everyone's a real body, with digestion problems and unpleasant odors. But when this "well people are imperfect" stance extended to racism, pedophilia, rape, misogyny...I no longer saw these characters as charming deep down underneath it all, and I lost all interest in the plot.