Love in the Time of Cholera (3 Million Copies Commemorative Edition)

As most people say, this book shows all kinds of love that can be imagined in the world, including secret, taboo, legitimate, inappropriate, perverted, etc. Can the male protagonist Florentino Ariza be considered pure love? She only has Fermina in her heart, but she has more than 600 lovers at the same time. She separates spiritual love from physical love, that is, the love of the upper half of the body and the love of the lower half of the body. To be precise, it separates sex and love. For us Chinese, love is about fidelity, which means being loyal and firm and never changing. In fact, the male protagonist seems to be within the limits of the law. After all, he is not married, and the article does not say that the male protagonist still messes around after being with the female protagonist. This is what is reasonable and legal. We can only say that he has rich fighting experience, but we cannot say that he is unfaithful in love. It is a bit like comparing marriage to a ship before you get on the ship. You can do whatever you want, and you can even board other people's ships. Although it is immoral, you can't say that I am disloyal. I will wash my hands in a golden basin after getting on the ship. I will only love one person forever, and there will be no ex in the whole network. Such words are only morally excessive, but legally legal. So it made me think about the morality and law of love. There is no doubt that we have always been deeply influenced by Confucianism and other thoughts. Although many things are legal, they are morally excessive, which is what we call psychological regrets. There is always a voice warning us about what we should do and what we should not do. Of course, this kind of voice needs to be developed, that is, it needs to be baptized by the books of sages. I believe that the love in this book is unacceptable to most Chinese people. It is a history of love rather than a history of fornication. In fact, this also reflects the differences between Chinese and foreign cultures, as well as the importance Chinese people attach to love and marriage, as well as the impact of China's excellent traditional culture on Chinese people's love outlook. It also profoundly explains the difference between learning excellent culture and not learning, and more importantly, the impact of cultivating a good three views on life. There is no doubt that I personally think this is a good book. At least it triggered my thinking and gained me a lot. Different ages, different experiences, different thinking, and different passages will have different gains. As Shakespeare said, there are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people. Book friends, encourage each other!

The New York Times rated it as the greatest love novel in human history, which exhausts all possibilities of love. 1. Love is an important element of marriage, but it is not the only element. A happy marriage also needs to be based on life. Desperate love only exists in people's beautiful imagination and is basically impossible to exist in real life. After all, passionate love will gradually break up in the life of a person. 2. It is better to wait for the wind to come than to chase it. Florentino Ariza did not give up because of his poverty and was rejected. Instead, he worked hard as much as possible and rose up step by step in the shipping company because of his talents. Finally, he obtained status and wealth that could match Dasa's. This laid a solid foundation for his successful proposal in his later years. If Florentino Ariza was still the impoverished poor boy, would he still win Dasa's heart? The answer is obviously no. 3. The most important thing in marriage is not love, but stability, and controlling the dislike of your partner. Of course, this does not deny that love will disappear, but marriage is a life between two people with different cultures, different personalities, different backgrounds, and different personalities. It is inevitable that there will be many quarrels and conflicts. The key is to resolve them in a way that is suitable for both people to feel comfortable, in order to maintain the stability of the marriage. 4. We must pay attention to communication in marriage. Conflicts must be resolved immediately. We must not be perfunctory. It may seem that we have dealt with it this time, but in fact it is paving the way for new conflicts next time. The accumulation of conflicts will easily lead to irreparable crises. Husband and wife should communicate candidly and must not hold it in their hearts. 5. Most love in real life is secular love. Both parties just get what they need. The man gains a sense of vanity in social life, and the woman gains a sense of security in material life, but does not achieve soul resonance. The chance of meeting true love is quite small, so when you meet someone who is truly attracted to you, you must be brave to pursue love. Instead of planning too much, you can take risks bravely. If you miss the opportunity, it will be difficult to get another chance!

The hero Florentino Ariza, for more than 50 years. Ariza's love for Fermina is a kind of persistent persistence. During these long years, although his body wandered in worldly passions, his soul always surrounded Fermina. His love is like the ship flying the cholera flag, moving alone in the torrent of time. Some people say that he is sentimental and that he has blasphemed love, but in my opinion, his love is complex and deep. He uses this seemingly absurd way to fill the emptiness in his heart caused by the loss of Fermina. Every indulgence he indulges in is like a rebellion against fate and a cry for the love he can't get. I personally think this work is worth reading again and again. Every time you read it, you will have new insights and new gains.

What was particularly shocking was that Florentino had only 622 recorded lovers, but he still firmly said to Fermina "I kept my virginity for you." This love was true. For more than 50 years, he tried every means to see her and bought a mirror in the restaurant. , Just because he saw his lover through the mirror in the corner of the hotel. He often looked in the mirror and missed his lover. He wrote her countless love letters. More than 50 years later, they were both old, but his love was still strong. They were finally together, sailing forever on the cholera ship with the yellow flag flying. The love that lasted for more than half a century, those deliberately created encounters, tension, discomfort, persistence, and bravery are commendable and very rare. The proud heroine in the book seems to have a scandal. In a crazy love environment, perhaps no one can be immune. I am cowardly, and most modern people are cowardly. They are trapped by reality and imaginary enemies and stop moving forward.

Between loving and being loved, He managed it for fifty-one years, six months and four days

The most pitiable thing is the 14-year-old girl. What should her parents do? Do you blame the guardian? In my opinion, Florentino Ariza does not deserve the love of some people. He is old and ugly. At most, he has a pair of mouths that can coax the little girl. Why is the girl so determined to commit suicide? Neither the heroine nor the hero. I am very much in love. I feel that it is an obsession that I have had since I was young. How can a person spend his whole life for a lover who has only been together for a while? It is to complete the young self at that time. Will the male protagonist and the female protagonist love each other until death? Maybe one morning, he will find a corpse on the boat with a yellow flag.

For years, I had viewed love as a flash of lightning, as if someone had suddenly struck a match in the endless darkness of eternity and it went out. This kind of fleeting moment is particularly precious, because at this moment, you must use the light to see clearly the face of the person who lit the match in the darkness, and you must see yourself clearly from the shadow reflected in the eyes on the face. When the light goes out and love disappears, if you make a choice, it will be a lifelong choice. In this life, you have to rely on this moment of light to support your belief in love. You will keep returning to this moment in your memories, reliving that short-lived light, recalling the childish face of the other person at that time, and always trying to find something from yourself to re-brighten the match that can never be lit again. That moment will never come again, but we often call the recollection of this moment love.

In the context of South America where cholera is rampant, in the anti-colonial wave of independence, and in the prejudice and acceptance of South America's multi-ethnic groups. From the inability to love interspersed with the longing for European aristocrats to closer acceptance and aging love, this can be regarded as a metaphor for the national history of South America at that time.

How should I put it, it was not in line with my expectations. I originally thought of a great love between two people. What is great love? It means that two people love each other, go through many twists and turns, and stick to principles and bottom lines for each other. This may be my dream view of love. It is too dreamy. This book made me understand that this is love in reality. Everyone has his own character, everyone has his helplessness, and secular concepts are much more powerful than we imagine. Don't pursue perfection so deliberately, but we can shape perfection. The meeting between Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza was a turning point. If he could not be so embarrassed when they met, maybe the girl would not be awakened by the sting immediately, and the outcome for the two of them would be better. Life is really a paradox, why not live it the other way around, then there won't be so many regrets.

The book is a good book, but it's a pity that I encountered an iron cock. I had to pay to read a little bit, so I went to other places to read it for free [face covering] Love is love, the closer you are to death the more passionate it becomes

This book is amazing! I love the love story of Florentino and Fermina, especially the part where they meet again after fifty years, it's so touching! Marquez's writing style is very unique and his writing style is very beautiful. It made me feel as if I was really in that era. I think this is a good book worth reading again and again!

This is one of the most touching love stories I have ever read. It allows me to see the true nature of love after the worldliness and prejudice have faded away. It discusses marriage and lust, and makes love more beautiful. The last "lifetime" was glorious and splendid. In the countdown of their lives, they finally obtained the purest love.

Very very very beautiful! I read the first chapter of this book on Tomato. Since I don't have a membership, I couldn't read it later, so I bought the physical book and read the remaining chapters. When I bought a physical book, I was very hesitant because I actually don't like to read. I might not even read a few pages of a book before leaving it to gather dust. But later I discovered the charm of this book: the exquisite characterization and the exquisite language made me amazed and addicted to it. Its analysis of life and love is very profound and gave me a lot of inspiration. I highly recommend this book, it is worthy of being written by the famous writer García Márquez!

The ship that sailed forever, hung with the yellow flag representing cholera, drifted on the river for its entire life. After waiting for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days, Florentino Ariza finally got to spend time alone with Fermina on a boat. This time, he no longer disturbed her with "worldly passions", but said the words "for the rest of his life" that he had been preparing for half a century. He tries to include all the answers to love. Like two sides of a coin, he makes us both believe in love and despise love. A glance full of hormonal throbs that lasts for eternity, that is the moment when the young Florentino Ariza saw Fermina through the gap in the garden; a look that was tailor-made with family background and appearance, but lasted forever in the long time they spent together, that was the fifty-one-year golden marriage of Dr. Urbino and Fermina. Missing each other, never leaving, and a lifelong bond - which one is the eternal theme of life? Marquez had no answer. In other words, his answer is: all good love and pain are hard to let go. Fermina first chose love in real life and experienced the true meaning of worldly happiness in a half-century-long marriage; and after her husband's death, she boarded an idealistic ship in her later years and completed an agreement with Florentino Ariza across time and space. Marquez's Fermina is mesmerizing—not because of perfection, but because of a vitality that becomes clearer with age. Marquez seems to be telling us with her life trajectory: women of any age have the unrepeatable beauty she showed at that age. Fermina was proud and decisive in her teenage years, calm and tolerant in her middle age, and transparent and brave in her old age. This kind of beauty is not a static picture, but flowing, breathing, and growing. She chose Urbino not because of love, but because of security, harmony and happiness - these things seemed close to love at a certain stage, but were not love itself. And when Urbino died and Florentino Ariza appeared again, she finally understood that love and life were never opposing choices, but different forms of life at different moments. Florentino Ariza used a lifetime of debauchery and a lifetime of obsession to form the two most extreme dimensions of love. He had 622 lovers in his life - Leona Cassiani was his business partner and spiritual confidant, the woman who understood him best; Sara Noriega, the poetess who made the famous conclusion: "Above the waist is love, below the waist is lust"; Barbara Lynch was his long-term and stable widow lover; America Vicuña, an underage girl who committed suicide because of his departure... However, he "kept his virginity" for Fermina Daza. This is a Marxist irony and the most profound paradox of love: a person's body can belong to countless people, but his soul can belong to only one person throughout his life. Florentino Ariza used unlimited physical indulgence to maintain absolute loyalty in soul. His waiting is not passive waiting, but using every day of his life to prove that he can experience everything in life while leaving the place in his heart to one person forever. "When a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she cannot jump over, no fortress she cannot knock down, and no moral concerns she cannot leave behind. In fact, there is no God who can control her." - It is the determination of women and the power of love that can destroy all rationality and order and return people to their most authentic state. Fermina finally chooses to board the ship with Florentino Ariza, not because she denies her marriage to Urbino, but because she finally understands that different stages of life are entitled to different kinds of love. She is not betraying the past, she is just completing herself. What kind of love is the eternal theme of life? The question itself may be meaningless. Because the eternal theme of life is just life itself. Only living, the process of life brings eternal happiness. Florentino Ariza's waiting is life, Fermina's marriage is life, Urbino's order is life, and those six hundred and twenty-two emotions and desires are also life. Marquez did not judge which kind of life is nobler, he just showed how love takes different forms throughout a person's life. On July 11, 1953, Florentino Ariza was finally able to say "for the rest of my life" to Fermina. This number is not a coincidence, it is Marquez's response to time - love can transcend time, but it must be completed in time. During those fifty-three years, Ariza did not stop living, and neither did Fermina. They each experience everything on their own tracks, until time brings them together again. Not telling us what love is, but telling us what love can be. It can be love at first sight, or it can be love that lasts for a long time; it can be the separation of soul and body, or it can be the unity of body and mind; it can be a lifetime of waiting, or it can be a fifty-year marriage. Marquez puts all possibilities before us without telling us which one is right. Because fundamentally, there is no standard answer to love. Neither does life. No matter what kind of love we choose, no matter what kind of pain and joy we experience, what really matters is that we live, we feel, and in the long river of time, we complete our own life story. All the meaning of life is life itself. That ship flying the cholera flag will never dock. Florentino Ariza and Fermina continue their love in their later years on the boat, and the voyage of the boat is the metaphor Marquez left us - once love begins, there is no end. It will continue to drift in the long river of life until "lifelong".

Divine book! No one has any writing skills. But the names in the book are too long.

The story of "Love in the Time of Cholera" is okay. In such a love that spans half a century, the male protagonist's love for the female protagonist has changed from such a passionate and pure desire in his youth to being forced to part ways. The male protagonist is alone in grief and can only seek multiple relationships. However, he still loves the female protagonist deeply in his heart. Later, he and the female protagonist can be together again in a cross-century conversation. In this love story, the male protagonist's gradual growth and strength due to love is worthy of praise, and he is also praised for his persistent pursuit of love.

Love in the Time of Cholera: After half a century of living separately, the two came together again because of love!

Great work, great soul. This is an illustrated book of love, an epic that praises love.

I think I need to read it again

The ending is quite idealistic.

Waiting for my thoughts after reading, maybe one day I can also understand "love".

I like Marquez's books very much. His books have a fantasy color and their beautiful writing makes me very interested.

It's so perfect, this is a love book.

It's so beautiful and I've benefited a lot. Sometimes, love saves us like a god, like faith. People can live without marriage, but they cannot live without longing for and fantasizing about love.

Elegant and advanced narrative method, slowly told

Nice! Like it very much!

I don't dare to rate the master, I'm just learning!

It's very complicated to read. So what is love? Is it one person's obsession? Or perseverance? I feel there is no love.

Love is diverse

Garcia is very good at writing, and there is no real right or wrong in the feelings here.