Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (Book Analysis)

This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s plot, characters and main themes, including love, illness and quixotism. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.

This clear and detailed 62-page reading guide is structured as follows:

• Biography of Gabriel García Márquez
• Presentation of Love in the Time of Cholera
• Summary of Love in the Time of Cholera
• Character study
  • Florentino Ariza
  • Fermina Daza
  • Juvenal Urbino de la Calle
  • Tránsito Ariza
  • Lorenzo Daza
  • Escolástica Daza
  • Hildebranda Sánchez
  • Leo XII Loayza
  • Leona Cassiani
  • América Vicuña
• Analysis of Love in the Time of Cholera
  • Form
  • Themes

About Love in the Time of Cholera

Love in the Time of Cholera was inspired by the story of how Gabriel García Márquez’s own parents met, and charts the lives of the romantic Florentino Ariza and the down-to-earth Fermina Daza. While the novel is chiefly an exploration of the myriad forms love can take, it is also a highly intertextual work which pays tribute to a wide range of literary genres, from Greek tragedies to Romanticism, and which has established itself as a classic in its own right.

About Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez was a Colombian writer and one of the leading figures of magical realism, a genre which features magical elements against a realistic backdrop and is often associated with Latin American literature. Some of his best-known works, including One Hundred Years of Solitude, form part of this current, and have inspired generations of writers around the world.

García Márquez wrote novels, novellas, short stories and non-fiction works over the course of a literary career spanning almost 50 years, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982 for his books “in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent’s life and conflict”.