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Fatima Mohamady.. asked this question about الحب في زمن الكوليرا:
just finished and i didn't understand what's the special about it !!.. can any one explain ??..
Ela Głogowska The other way to look at this book is that... it's not about love as a romantic concept. Love could be just a metaphor for an idea, passion, desire, p…mǰThe other way to look at this book is that... it's not about love as a romantic concept. Love could be just a metaphor for an idea, passion, desire, prejudice, believes or anything that sometimes becomes so strong in human's mind to makes us blind. We subordiante our whole life to it and use it as an exuse for our choices, even when they cause pain or harm to others.

This book also beautifully portrays how our life choices are influenced by many different factors and we can learn to be ok with that. When you look separatedly at the lives of Fermina Daza and Juvenal Urbino, you can see that the grand decisions of marriage, love, hate, family relationships are not made according to the romantic ideas written in the golden book of rules accepted by society. They can be a result of an impulse, pure calculation, they can be contradictory, logical or irrational, they may also change over the years and they are all valid. They can lead to happiness or misfortune, most likely to both, but we are complex creatures and life is messy, so lets stop pretending that there can only be one true love and it is the only thing that will makes us truly happy.(less)
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