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A review by redheadreading
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
I strongly dislike Florentino Ariza but I do love how Gabriel Garcia Marquez writes, so here we are!! Marquez writes with such stream of consciousness style that creates this slightly removed ephemeral feeling but then also focuses intensely on the body and its happenings (in terms of both love and cholera!) that you feel both outside of reality but also deeply rooted in the practicality of existence. The magical side of magical realism felt a lot stronger in the first half which I think is one of the reasons why I preferred that.
Didn't like this as much as 100 Years of Solitude - I think the sense of the town outside of time, the circularity of repetition etc was so effective in that which made the "yikes" elements of the plot work because that sense of sins repeating through generations etc is the whole point. With this, the more straightforward romance plotline meant that all the "yikes" parts felt so jarring and I really can't get past those horrid aspects.
Didn't like this as much as 100 Years of Solitude - I think the sense of the town outside of time, the circularity of repetition etc was so effective in that which made the "yikes" elements of the plot work because that sense of sins repeating through generations etc is the whole point. With this, the more straightforward romance plotline meant that all the "yikes" parts felt so jarring and I really can't get past those horrid aspects.