Introduction & Overview of Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

Love in the Time of Cholera Introduction

Love in the Time of Cholera (El amor en los tiempos del colera in the original Spanish), published in 1985, was the first novel by Gabriel García Marquez to be published since he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 As abundant publicity surrounding the book's appearance in December 1985 revealed, the author was already working on a sequel to his novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold when the Nobel committee's decision was announced with the award there came numerous public commitments obliging García Marquez to interrupt the progress of his project until January 1984, when he resumed work on the existing material. Love in the Time of Cholera was eventually completed in August 1985 and published three months ahead of schedule.

Initial critical response took the form of summary notices and reviews, the most enthusiastic of which asserted that Love in the Time of Cholera was...
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