Love in the Time of Cholera (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Gabriel García Márquez
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1880’s and 1920’s
- Genres: Long fiction, Magical Realism
- Subjects: Caribbean, Love or romance, Suicide, Biracial people, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Moral conditions, South America or South Americans, Latin America or Latin Americans, Old age or elderly people, Cholera, Chess or chess players
- Locales: Colombia
Places Discussed
*Cartagena. Colombian port city on the Caribbean Sea that forms the backdrop to the novel. Gabriel García Márquez never names the city within the novel; however, the clues he provides are sufficient to ensure that the city is, in fact, Cartagena. Details about the novel’s city include the fact that it was the most prosperous city in the Caribbean during the eighteenth century, that it once possessed the largest slave market in the Americas, and that it was the traditional residence of the viceroys of the Spanish colonial Kingdom of New Granada. The capital...
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