UNIVERSIDAD DE LA SABANA
JULIAN DAVID BALLEN CARDONA
ENGLISH CLASS

EL AMOR EN LOS TIEMPOS DEL COLERA
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ

Background

This Book it’s one of my favorite book in the world, was writer by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, he is a Prime Nobel, and right now is consider the must important writer in the Spanish language. I stared to read this book in 2005 but since this time I has been the opportunity to read this book in 2 times more; for me is amazing the imagination that he used for describe the city, the people, the feelings and the story, is very warm the way to he write.

Main Body

The main female character in the novel, Fermina Daza, is the strong axis around which the story revolves. Fermina easily rejects Florentino Ariza in their youth when she realizes the naïveté of their first romance, and she weds Juvenal Urbino at the age of 21, the "deadline" she had set for herself, ultimately because he seemed to be able to offer security and love to her. Urbino is a physician devoted to science, modernity, and "order and progress." He is committed to the eradication of cholera and to the promotion of public works. He is a rational man whose life is organized precisely and who values his importance and reputation in society to the utmost. Urbino is a herald of progress and modernization.

His function in the novel is to provide the counterpoint to Ariza’s archaic, romantic style. He proved to be a faithful husband, save for one small affair late in their marriage, though the novel suggests that his love for her was never as spiritually chaste as Ariza's was. By the end of the book, Fermina has recognized a change in Ariza and their love is allowed to blossom once more in their old age. For most of the novel, their communication is limited to correspondence by letter; not until the end of the book do Fermina and Florentino converse at length.

Conclusion

For me it’s the best book of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, I have been read others titles like: “LA Mala Hora”, “Doce Cuentos Perefrinos”, “El Coronel en su Laberinto” and the Nobel’s Prime: “Cien años de Soledad”. But I think that this book it’s easy to read, the story its attractive and the writer use normal vocabulary and linguistics ways.