Tag Archives: Marquez

I’ve upset Mark in my finale review of this novel, and realize that I didn’t truly give adequate time to the novel in my post. Perhaps I should have made it clearer; sex was not the be-all, end-all of their … Continue reading → Continue reading →

"If we’re going to do it, let’s do it," she said, "but let’s do it like grownups." At long last, Fermina and Florentino are about to make love.  She, realizing that this love is not the same as what she … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m sensing within Marquez’s narratives a continuity of low-level conflict that is a constant beneath the layers of ongoing story.  Perhaps because this novel, as well as 100 Years of Solitude is based upon his own country of birth, there … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I am realizing that Marquez’s love story is not about sex, and not really about love.  It is about relationships but, I think, in the individual sense of what a character is seeking and how he/she goes about it and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m having a less than ideal experience with Marquez in this novel in that I am not having those moments of awe and elation that I recall from 100 Years of Solitude.  Just when I am writing it off to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Obviously, what Florentino Ariza discovers about women through his liaisons with prostitutes is never applied to ladies such as his beloved Fermina Daza, but this observation is interesting: It was in those days that he devised his rather simplistic theories … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Marquez slips in some food for thought: His (Florentino Ariza’s) uncle was angry with him because of the manner in which he had thrown away the good position of telegraph operator in Villa de Leyva, but he allowed himself to … Continue reading →

Marquez touches upon a sensitive topic here with Florentino Ariza, who has just discovered that Fermina Daza has decided upon wedding the persistent Dr. Juvenal Urbino.  Urbino may not have had the dedication to the affair from Fermina, but he … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Ah, Marquez does not disappoint:  Soon after she has spurned her long-time love, Fermina Daza comes into contact with Dr. Juvenal Urbino whom she will eventually wed.  But the games must be played.  They meet on a professional call he … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Why is it that Marquez can string me along so fluidly on a well formed cloud that threatens yet entices, and leave me in a hoot of laughter, my brows still furrowed in the drama of the moments leading up, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

How odd, or maybe it is just that I’m still in editing mode, or perhaps Gabriel Garcia Marquez meant this for a purpose: Florentino Ariza had often seen Lorenzo Daza gambling and drinking cask wines there with the Asturians from … Continue reading → Continue reading →

As always, even as I read ahead my mind goes back to something read before; especially with Marquez.  After a long time of watching from afar, Florentino Ariza finally takes a stand and walks up to the object of his … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Love, of course, is the underlying theme of this novel, but it occurred to me that it is also a symbol with deeper connotations. The love Dr. Urbino and Fermina Daza have in their marriage is one that is typical … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Another thing I find in Marquez is an ability to put the human element into a very relative form amid the routine lives of his characters, so that we understand their behavior in more traumatic events.  I love this segment … Continue reading → Continue reading →