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Gabriel Garcia Márquez established his
literary reputation more than twenty years ago with
the publication of One Hundred Years of Solitude, a leg-
endary book that has been read by millions of people
around the world. It was followed by other works, each
of which drew new readers and new praise from the
critics—culminating in the Nobel Prize for Literature
in 1982.
Now García Márquez has written a book that takes
its place alongside that earlier, famous work, in the
company of the true masterpieces of modern literature.
"It was inevitable " So begins this story set in a
country on the Caribbean coast of South America—a
story that ranges from the late nineteenth century to
the early decades of our own, tracing the lives of three
people and their entwined fates. And yet, at first noth-
ing seems inevitable, for this is a tale of unrequited
love. Fifty years, nine months, and four days1 worth, to
be exact. For that is how long Florentino Ariza has
waited to...
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Fülszöveg
Gabriel Garcia Márquez established his
literary reputation more than twenty years ago with
the publication of One Hundred Years of Solitude, a leg-
endary book that has been read by millions of people
around the world. It was followed by other works, each
of which drew new readers and new praise from the
critics—culminating in the Nobel Prize for Literature
in 1982.
Now García Márquez has written a book that takes
its place alongside that earlier, famous work, in the
company of the true masterpieces of modern literature.
"It was inevitable " So begins this story set in a
country on the Caribbean coast of South America—a
story that ranges from the late nineteenth century to
the early decades of our own, tracing the lives of three
people and their entwined fates. And yet, at first noth-
ing seems inevitable, for this is a tale of unrequited
love. Fifty years, nine months, and four days1 worth, to
be exact. For that is how long Florentino Ariza has
waited to declare, once again, his undying love to Fer-
mina Daza, whom he courted and almost won so many
years before. He has the bad grace, however, to make
his declaration at the funeral of her husband, one of the
most illustrious men of his time, a patron of the arts,
distinguished professor of medicine, and leader in the
fight against the cholera epidemics that once ravaged
the country. Shaken by Florentino's bold speech, Fer-
mina banishes him from her house.
But that is only the beginning. With the craft, hu-
mor, and accumulated wisdom of a master of fiction,
García Márquez transports them (and the reader) back
to those early days when they first met, courted, and
were forced apart. He shows them going their very
different ways—Florentino with his poetry, his rise to
prominence in business, and (his devotion to Fermina
Daza notwithstanding) his constant pursuit of women.
And we see Fermina as she is wooed by the most
sought-after bachelor of their time, Doctor Juvenal
Urbino de la Calle; as they wed; as they experience all
the events and emotions—honeymoon, passion, chil-
dren, small betrayals, separations, dependencies, and
adventures—that constitute a long, sturdy marriage.
And then, at what might seem the end of their lives,
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Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza are brought to-
gether once more, in a meeting whose outcome is as
fateful, as suspenseful, as any in literature.
As the title suggests, García Márquez has written a
novel about love, love in all its guises: young love, mar-
ried love, romantic love, carnal love, even love with the
symptoms of cholera. More than that, he has written a
work of art radiant with humanity that readers will
savor and will remember for the rest of their lives.
Gabriel Garcia Márquez was born in
Aracataca, Colombia, in 1928. He attended the Uni-
versity of Bogotá and later worked as a reporter for the
Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign
correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and
New York. The author of several novels and collections
of stories—including No One Writes to the Colonel and
Other Stories, The Autumn of the Patriarch, Innocent Erén-
dira and Other Stories, In Evil Hour, Leaf Storm and Other
Stories, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, and the internation-
ally best-selling One Hundred Years of Solitude—he was
awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. He
lives in Mexico City.
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