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Plot summary. The main characters of the novel are Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza. Florentino and Fermina fall in love in their youth. A secret relationship blossoms between the two with the help of Fermina's Aunt Escolástica. They exchange love letters.
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The novel depicts the flashback of Florentino Ariza as the sick lover of Fermina Daza, a young, innocently attractive girl. Soon Ariza succeeds in creating a secret link to the girl through her spinster aunt, Escolastica through whom they start writing letters to each other.
'Love in the Time of Cholera' narrates a tale of love spanning several decades, chronicling the enduring romance between Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza, all against the backdrop of a devastating cholera epidemic in Colombia. About the Book. Protagonist: Florentino Ariza, Fermina Daza. Publication Date: 1985.
Gabriel García Márquez’s novel ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’ is an intimate and deep reflection on love, life, death, and society. As is characteristic of his literary oeuvre, Márquez incorporates magical realism, merging the commonplace and the spectacular to explore the depths of human feeling.
At seventeen, Florentino Ariza begins his courtship of Fermina Daza. After a two-year relationship in which the two communicate exclusively through clandestine love letters, she accepts his...
By Gabriel García Márquez. 'Love in the Time of Cholera,' set in the 1870s in an unnamed city in the Caribbean, examines the meaning of love through the intertwined lives of Fermina Daza, Florentino Ariza, and Dr. Juvenal Urbino de la Calle. Introduction. Summary. Themes and Analysis.
