Love in the Time of Cholera

Love in the Time of Cholera cover
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  • ID: 63
  • Added: 2025-08-30
  • Updated: 2025-08-30
  • Reviews: 3
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Pull quotes
  • Florentino, now elderly, abruptly ends his affair and professes his 'eternal fidelity and everlasting love' to Fermina.
  • The unhappy but stable marriage is rocked when Dr. Urbino conducts a four-month affair.
  • Florentino orders the Captain to raise the yellow flag of cholera, which he does, and they are forever exiled to cruise the river.


Pull quotes
  • They appreciate the quality of a love separate from marital difficulties and societal obligations.
  • Love that is rendered all the more intense by its proximity to death.
  • Florentino is convinced of his love and, after many months of waiting, succeeds in handing her a declaration of love through her aunt and guardian.


Pull quotes
  • It is Love that saves all in the end - at least we are left to imagine that possibility.
  • Life has been reborn in the Second Coming of Love!
  • The capacity for illusion is magic enough to save the world, and our souls.