Poetry in the Time of Pandemic: On My Favorite Novel Love in the Time of Cholera

In the novel, this power gives Florentino his unwavering patience and unfaltering persistence in his lifetime waiting to love and to live again;in our reality, it can also inspire us to wait, for the fog to disperse, for the river to open, for the ship to arrive, taking us on our voyage, where we love and live again. Set in a fictional city in Márquez's home country of Colombia during a period of rampant Cholera outbreaks, Love in the Time of Cholera follows the lives of three main characters from the last decades of the 19th century to the first decades of the 20th. "1 Published two decades after One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) for which Marquez was awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, Love in the Time of Cholera (1988) is considered by many critics a matching masterpiece. In so doing, Florentino has not only won back his love, but also the lost time and life.