Love in the Time of Cholera (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Gabriel García Márquez
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: Mid-nineteenth century to the 1920's
- Setting: Various locations in Colombia
- Principal Characters: Florentino Ariza, Fermina Daza, Dr. Juvenal Urbino De La Calle
- 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
Gabriel García Márquez won worldwide fame for himself and, to a large degree, Latin American literature with his novel Cien años de soledad (1967; One Hundred Years of Solitude, 1970). Though the works he has produced since then, such as El otoño del patriarca (1975; The Autumn of the Patriarch, 1976) and Crónica de una muerte anunciada (1981; Chronicle of a Death Foretold, 1982), have maintained his reputation as one of the world's foremost novelists and contributed as well to his winning the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature, many critics...
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