I Am In Love...

I am in love with Fermina Daza, Dr Juvenal Urbino, Florentino Ariza, Hildebranda Sánchez, Miss Lynch, the Captain. I love them because we have a small house in perfect sleepy town somewhere in Spain. We earn moderately with not much ambitions. We do whatever we want with no time limit, we go out, we have fun and we even make love at the top of the house witnessing stars. We don’t have much responsibility except we wanted some.

Hmmm... reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Love In The Time of Cholera was like a dream come true for me. Every character of this novel is so independent in a way that I feel jealous at their life. Why I can’t have such a peaceful life?

The novel is a simple love story of two and their life revolves around it till the age of 60. The end of the story is very romantic. With a fear to get exposed before the world that a widow Fermina Daza and an unmarried man, Florentinio Ariza had a date in the boat at the age of 60, they decide not to go back to the cruel world. So what do they do now? They host a yellow flag on the boat indicating cholera patients are traveling. So none of the port allow them to dock with a fear of cholera outbreak. They are forever together with each other.

The story touched me with this end. As a human being we all like imaginations. Things we imagine usually don’t come true, so we enjoy it more. The end of the story is a magic realism type, which keeps you always at high without making one realize the truth.

Marquez, a journalist and a nobel winner, has a special power of imagination. His words are so intense that you cannot escape a line while reading. He is also a master of detailing things. I think I am in love with him also.