![]() ![]() One Hundred Years of Solitude is a young person’s novel, written in an explosion of creative energy over eighteen months and a million cigarettes, and Love in the Time of Cholera is a novel of maturity, or at the very least, of middle age. Looking back now, I can see that my reaction said more about me than about the book itself. I was still in thrall to the García Márquez of One Hundred Years of Solitude, and while acknowledging the meticulous skill of its composition, was confused that he had written what seemed like a nineteenth century novel. ![]() I never fully appreciated Love in the Time of Cholera when it first appeared, back in the 1980s. In the second instalment of this series, Richard Gwyn draws parallels between contagion literature and the coronavirus pandemic, tracing ever pressing facts through fiction in the form of Gabriel García Márquez ’s Love in the Time of Cholera ( (trans. ![]()
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