Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Translator: Byeong-seon Song
Publisher: Minumsa
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About This Book
The ironic vision and luminous evocation of South America that have
distinguished Garcia Marquez's Nobel Prize-winning fiction
since his landmark work, One Hundred Years of Solitude, persist in this
turn-of-the-century chronicle of a unique love triangle.
It is a fully mature novel in scope and perspective, flawlessly translated, as
rich in ideas as in humanity.
The illustrious and meticulous Dr. Juvenal Urbino and his proud, stately wife
Fermina Daza, respectively past 80 and 70, are in the autumn of their solid
marriage as the drama opens on the suicide of the doctor's chess partner.
Jeremiah de Saint-Amour, a disabled photographer of children, chooses death over
the indignities of old age, revealing in a letter a clandestine love affair, on
the "fringes of a closed society's prejudices." This scenario not only heralds
Urbino's demise soon after when he falls out of a mango tree in an attempt to
catch an escaped parrotbut brilliantly presages the novel's central themes,
which are as concerned with the renewing capacity of age as with an anatomy of
love. We meet Florentino Ariza, more antihero than hero, a mock Don Juan with an
undertaker's demeanor, at once pathetic, grotesque and endearing, when he seizes
the memorably unseemly occasion of Urbino's funeral to reiterate to Fermina the
vow of love he first uttered more than 50 years before. With the fine detailing
of a Victorian novel, the narrative plunges backward in time to reenact their
earlier, youthful courtship of furtive letters and glances, frustrated when
Fermina, in the light of awaking maturity, realizes Florentino is an adolescent
obsession, and rejects him. With his uncanny ability to unearth the
extraordinary in the commonplace, Garcia Marquez smoothly interweaves Fermina's
and Florentino's subsequent histories. Enmeshed in a bizarre string of affairs
with ill-fated widows while vicariously conducting the liaisons of others via
love poems composed on request, Florentino feverishly tries to fill the void of
his unrequited passion. Meanwhile, Fermina's marriage suffers vicissitudes but
endures, affirming that marital love can be as much the product of art as is
romantic love. When circumstances both comic and mystical offer Fermina and
Florentino a second chance, during a time in their lives that is often regarded
as promising only inevitable degeneration toward death, Garcia Marquez
beautifully reveals true love's soil not in the convention of marriage but in
the simple, timeless rituals that are its cement.
-- From Publishers Weekly
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