Fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights, my soul finally found its home, and I was pleased to find that what is truly vast is life.
- Florentino Ariza, "Love"
After nearly two weeks of intermittent reading, I finally successfully finished reading this novel that is known as the best way to write about love.
On the weekend, I watched the film adaptation of the original book while it was hot, which just complemented and complemented the book. If the original is the wonderful root of the film, then the film is a condensed reproduction of the original. I like to read the original work first, and then enjoy the reading of the film and television to deepen the understanding.
Throughout the story's intricate emotional entanglements, there is always a clear thread, that is, Florentino's unswerving love for Fermina.
For the end of the story will still be very pleased, but also for the male protagonist Florentino's persistence. Compared to the bitter tragedy that unrequited love is mostly doomed to, this will be a completely different and flavorful ending.
The heroine also wisely has such unforgettable love as "Only God knows how much I love you" and "Waiting for half a century". Love does have all kinds of possibilities, and who would say that the watchful eye that does not forget the original intention and waits with life is also inadvertently interpreted, another kind of beauty of love in life?
"You never know when you will fall in love with someone, just as you never know when you will give up falling in love with this person", the long and intriguing meaning of the language has inspired the determination to read this warm and curious encyclopedia of love.
If you want to read and eat a book thoroughly, you must not only understand the relevant aspects in an all-round way, read it with questions, but also be able to repeat its main points in your own language and remember it with thinking. Then, I want to be such a practitioner and step into such a path of gradual growth.
1. What is the author of the book?
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian writer, journalist and activist, a representative of Latin American magic realism literature, one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, and winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.
A genius and widely acclaimed novelist hailed as the "literary benchmark of the twentieth century," García Márquez combined realism and fantasy to create a mythical history of the ever-changing Columbia and the entire South American continent. His notable works include One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985).
2. What is the introduction to the work of the book?
Love in the Time of Cholera is García Márquez's first novel published after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, breaking the trap of "never being able to write a great work after winning the Nobel Prize."
Three years later, the Nobel Prize is once again famous, telling a love epic that spans more than half a century, exhausting all the possibilities of love: loyal, secret, rough, shy, platonic, debauched, fleeting, life and death... Reproducing the inexorable passage of time, it has been hailed as "the greatest love novel ever written by mankind" and is one of the most important classic literary masterpieces of the 20th century.
3. What is the evaluation of the book's work?
There are two books that make people feel as if they were hollowed out: One Hundred Years of Solitude, and One is Love in the Time of Cholera - García Márquez
4. What is the main point of this book?
"Just one more look in the crowd".
She was 13 years old, he was 18 years old, cardamom was as old as a flower.
When the poor boy Florentino went to the rich woman Fermina's house to deliver the courier, it was at the window of the book that he fell in love at first sight and fell in love with himself, unable to extricate himself, unrequited love like cholera.
Since then, he has not thought about tea and dinner, feixin conveys affection, and the literary atmosphere will eventually arouse the favor of the goddess of the flower crown, and the exchange of letters has opened a green love. And the good times in the plot are like a flash in the pan, and this improper love affair is known to the goddess's father, and then beats the mandarin duck. Only because the father still has the most traditional ideas in his heart, he hopes that the carefully cultivated daughter can marry a large family and live in the high branches and honor the ancestors. Fathers used rough means to force demolition without success, and they were no longer afraid to die for love.
In order to cut off the love thread, the father had to take his daughter away from home, even so, it could not stop the secret letter between the two, and the thoughts grew day by day, and Fermina also placed the deepest expectation and aura on this love.
Until two years later in the "ghostwriter porch", the two met again, looking back at the moment, Fermina found that the previous love may be her own ignorant of the exaggerated fantasy of the times, a weak sense of distance poured into her heart, the poor boy in front of her and the expected hero in a colorful neon dress are very different, trance only to understand that the original reality can be so pale and powerless in front of the ideal, so she resolutely chose to abandon.
Later, Fermina fell seriously ill and happened to meet the rich and handsome male god Dr. Urbino, an era of orientation, a bright chase. In the end, the goddess of high cold, Fermina, married the realistic version of the rich and handsome Doctor Urbino, while the down-and-out literary young Florentino never married, and worked hard, during which he accompanied the couple's chai rice oil and salt husband and son, and looked like a stable life.
The infatuated lover secretly waited for the love field to hunt, did not forget the original heart to keep his promise, waited for fifty-three years, and finally survived the death of the rich and handsome, regained the heart, hugged the beautiful person, and loved the rest of his life.
That year, she was 75 years old, and he was 79 years old, "once in a lifetime", which became a promise of love and protection in the hearts of the old people who had reached their twilight years.
5. What is the perception in the appreciation of good sentences?
1. "These places are before the people, and they already have their own corolla goddesses." ”
The opening preface is very touching, for Florentino, the age when the love sinus first opened, love is so holy at first sight. Whether it is unrequited love like cholera or waiting for half a century, after many vicissitudes, the heart is still as firm as ever, only because the heart has always been filled with the goddess of the corolla.
Perhaps, this is the most authentic look of love, but also let people believe that love can indeed have such a magical charm, can not help but love, since then the heart can not tolerate anyone, let it rejoice and let it worry, no complaints and no regrets to live a life.
2. "Curiosity is also one of the disguises of love." ”
At the age when Fermina and Florentino were at the beginning of their innocent love, they fell in love with each other and were curious about each other.
Indeed, falling in love with someone becomes an innocent and curious baby. I am so interested in everything about my sweetheart, I want to understand, I want to understand, but it comes from the deepest love in my heart.
3. "A woman of any age has an irreproductible beauty that she presents at that age." What she has lost because of her age, she has made up for it because of her character, and she has won more because of hard work. ”
The description of Fermina's seventy-two-year-old age in the story, although the young years are gone, still has clear eyes and national pride.
Therefore, each stage of life has its own characteristics. The innocent beauty of childhood, the beauty of buds waiting to be released when you are young, the beauty of sunshine in youth, the beauty of rich meaning in middle age, and the beauty of returning to the truth in old age. Growing up in the experience, mentality is the root of beauty, action is the continuation of beauty, as long as the heart to taste, each period can bloom a unique beauty.
4. "An honest lifestyle is actually to act according to the will of one's own body, to eat when hungry, not to lie when you love, and not to pretend to sleep when you sleep to escape the shameful love program." ”
Dr. Urbino, who was eighty-one years old, died when he accidentally fell to his death by climbing a ladder in the afternoon to catch his beloved parrot. Fermina, who has lived with her for half a century, is hard to accept and is at a loss for words.
But as life slowly returns to calm and change, we will find that in fact, we have been chasing and stumbling all our lives, there is the comfort of companionship, there is incomprehensible sadness, and finally when the prosperity is over, we will always be relatively independent individuals, and all the additions are only short or long stays in life. After all, we can't escape the scrutiny of life, good or bad, only we can really know, understand ourselves will be a true confidant, change in experience, and adapt to experience.
5. "Take advantage of your youth, take advantage of this opportunity, and try to taste all the pain, this kind of thing is not something that will happen at any time in your life." ”
In the days of first love, when waiting for Fermina's reply, Florentino tasted the pain of lovesickness, and her mother, Trancido, used her difficult experience to persuade her son to say this.
I have to say that this is a wise mother. Indeed, the tribulations experienced in youth will precipitate a refreshing fragrance in the years, as long as you live up to the courage and walk through the heart, there will be no regrets.
6. "Man does not come out of the womb and remain unchanged, on the contrary, life will force him to be reborn again and again." ”
This is what Florentino said after facing his beloved marrying someone else, turning grief into strength, preparing to fight back, and pleading with his uncle for an errand.
Indeed, people always cry while learning to grow, the heart turns into a mortal, the realm turns into a sage, and as far as life is concerned, the brave will continue to challenge and adapt, and the years will always polish our edges and corners, and eventually the appearance will be like a piece of warm jade.
7. "She reminded him that the weak can never enter the kingdom of love, for it is a harsh, miserly country, and women will only submit to men with strong wills." Because only such men can give them a sense of security, and they crave this sense of security to face the challenges of life. ”
The words of the mother Trancido, who inspired her son while he waited for a reply, were hidden and thought, and indeed they were. Love is a contest of competition, the brave win, the loser Kou, Cupid's arrow of love favors the brave.
8. "In the lonely Marquis's mansion, she learned to know him, and when mother and son knew each other, she was overjoyed to discover that people loved children not because they were their own children, but because of the affection that arose in their upbringing. ”
This passage also expounds the most essential intimate relationship between people, which is the emotion established by mutual contact and acquaintance. Even mothers and children who have experienced pregnancy and childbirth in October have established a deep and irreplaceable relationship between parenting and mutual integration.
9. "Love at any age is reasonable. The love of the heart is above the waist, and the love of the flesh is down the waist. ”
This may also be the possibility of love that this book presents in the form of an encyclopedia of love, regardless of age or form. Because love is originally a very mysterious and strange existence.
10. "I travel because I decided I wanted to go, not because I was interested in the landscape." ”
At the end of the novel, florentino and Fermina's ship is changed to a direct voyage, no dock, no cargo, this is a ship of love, "one life" as a promise of twilight years floats on the sparkling sea, they decide to love as their form of survival for the rest of their lives.
In the face of the imminent end, the sense of presence of life is spared no effort to present;
In the face of the imminent end, the impurities of life have disappeared, and love has become more mellow and simple;
In the face of the impending end, worldly ideas can no longer limit the pure, eternal love: the realization of love is also the attachment to life.
The love of Florentino and Fermina in their twilight years is pure, not because they are free from sexual temptations, but because they have crossed the moral, secular prejudices and directly talked to their own lives, which is also the supreme state of love.
appendix:
1.4.9 points
2. Worth re-reading
3. In a word: what does true love need? Two people together are relaxed and happy, no pressure, not to live up to their hearts and not to bear themselves.