Love in the Time of Cholera

Overview

Author
Gabriel García Márquez

Original Title
El amor en los tiempos del cólera
Translator Edith Grossman

Country
Colombia

Language
Spanish

Genre
Novel

Publication date
1985 (Eng. trans. 1 January 1988)

Pages
348 (ISBN ISBN 0-394-57108-8 first edition, hardback)

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Love in the Time of Cholera (El amor en los tiempos del cólera, 1985) is a novel by Gabriel García Márquez about a fifty-year love triangle between Fermina Daza, Florentino Ariza and Doctor Juvenal Urbino set in the late 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century (roughly 1880 to 1930). The novel, a picaresque tale of unrequited love, deeply explores the idea that suffering for love is a kind of nobility.
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Overview

Director
Mike Newell
(Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire )

Writers
screenplay by Ronald Harwood (The Pianist)
novel by Gabriel García Márquez

Release Date
16 November 2007 for USA

Genre
Drama / Romance

Tagline
How long would you wait for love?

Plot Outline
Florentino (Bardem), rejected by the beautiful Fermina (Mezzogiorno) at a young age, devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate attempt to heal his broken heart.

Brazil - 4 October 2007 (Festival do Rio BR)
USA - 11 November 2007 (AFI Film Festival)
USA - 16 November 2007 (limited)
Turkey - 7 December 2007
Italy - 21 December 2007
France - 26 December 2007
Argentina - 17 January 2008
Germany - 21 February 2008
Netherlands - 21 February 2008
Finland - 14 March 2008
Denmark - 25 April 2008

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photo: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Javier Bardem as Fermina Dasa and Florentino Arisa

Producer Scott Steindorff spent over 3 years courting Gabriel García Márquez for the rights to the book telling him that he was Florentino and wouldn't give up until he got the rights.

For the days of shooting in Cartagena, Giovanna Mezzogiorno was given an entire beautiful old house to live in. One night, she heard some strange noises behind a closet and thought it was a ghost. When help arrived and investigated, they encountered with an owl's nest. Two owls were found and later named after the main characters of the movie, Florentino and Fermina.

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez, also known as Gabo (born March 6, 1927 in Aracataca, Magdalena) is a Colombian novelist, journalist, editor, publisher, political activist, and recipient of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.
His second novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), is the best-selling book originally written in the Spanish language (36 million copies sold as of July 2007).

García Márquez has lived mostly in Mexico and Europe and currently spends much of his time in Mexico City. Widely credited with introducing the global public to magical realism, he has secured both significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success. Many people hold that García Márquez ranks alongside his co-writers of the Latin American Boom, Jorge Luis Borges, Alejo Carpentier, Miguel Angel Asturias, Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa and Julio Cortázar as one of the world's greatest 20th-century authors.

Several of his works have been classified as both fiction and non-fiction, notably Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Crónica de una muerte anunciada) (1981), which tells the tale of a revenge killing recorded in the newspapers, and Love in the Time of Cholera (El amor en los tiempos del cólera) (1985), which is loosely based on the story of his parents' courtship. Many of his works, including those two, take place in the "García Márquez universe," in which characters, places, and events reappear from book to book. The works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez often cross genres and most integrate at least a few elements of magical realism. Furthermore, many of his novels and short stories integrate actual history as well as complete fabrication, making his genres sometimes difficult to pin down.

His most commercially successful novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien años de soledad), has sold more than 36 million copies worldwide. It chronicles several generations of the Buendía family who live in a fictional South American village called Macondo.
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Novels
In Evil Hour - 1962
One Hundred Years of Solitude - 1967
The Autumn of the Patriarch - 1975
Chronicle of a Death Foretold - 1981
Love in the Time of Cholera - 1985
The General in His Labyrinth - 1989
Of Love and Other Demons - 1994
Memories of My Melancholy Whores - 2004
More information on Marquez books