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* LoveTriangle: Type 4. Florentino is pining after Fermina, who is married to Juvenal.

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* LoveTriangle: Type 4. Florentino Ariza is pining after Fermina, Fermina Daza, who is married to Juvenal.Juvenal Urbino.



* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: The novel is largely set in an unnamed port city which is quite obviously Cartagena.

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* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: The novel is largely set in an unnamed port city which is quite obviously Cartagena.Cartagena, Colombia.
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* IJustWantToBeLoved: Florentino.

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* %%* IJustWantToBeLoved: Florentino.
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* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: Florentino Ariza recalls his godfather, a doctor, making a comment about Ariza's chronic constipation: that the world is divided between those who shit well, and those who shit badly.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Juvenal Urbino ends up cheating on Fermina with a patient.
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The book was adapted into a 2007 film directed by Creator/MikeNewell and starring Creator/JavierBardem and Creator/BenjaminBratt.
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* BiTheWay: Andrea Verón, a prostitute who is given the nickname "Our Lady of Everyone".
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* YourCheatingHeart: Juvenal Urbino ends up cheating on Fermina with a patient.

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* YourCheatingHeart: Juvenal Urbino ends up cheating on Fermina with a patient.patient.
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* TextualCelebrityResemblance: Uncle León XII is described as looking like UsefulNotes/{{Nero}}.
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* DecoyProtagonist: the first chapter is centered on Juvenal Urbino, while the rest of the novel on Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza.



* SliceOfLife: The plot meanders slowly, and the novel as a whole resembles this, examining a culture and a place, and the souls who examine it, in a turbulent and changing time.

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* SliceOfLife: The plot meanders slowly, and the novel as a whole resembles this, examining a culture and a place, and the souls who examine it, in a turbulent and changing time.time.
* ThemeNaming: Florentino's grandmother named his sons after popes: Florentino's father is Pio Quinto, his uncle León XII.
* YourCheatingHeart: Juvenal Urbino ends up cheating on Fermina with a patient.

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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: America Vicuña commits suicide as a consequence of Florentino's abuse.]]

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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: America Vicuña commits suicide as a consequence of Florentino's abuse.]] ]]
* FullNameBasis: Every character is always mentioned by their full name
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* MagicRealism: Though not as pronounced as other Marquez novels. There are infrequent ghosts, a frightening, growing doll, and rosebushes planted on the graves of Florentino Ariza's mother and one of hsi many lovers, which grow with such profusion that they take over the cemetery within a few years.

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* MagicRealism: Though not as pronounced as other Marquez novels. There are infrequent ghosts, a frightening, growing doll, and rosebushes planted on the graves of Florentino Ariza's mother and one of hsi his many lovers, which grow with such profusion that they take over the cemetery within a few years.

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* {{Determinator}}: Despite his poetic tendencies and his head in the clouds, when Florentino Ariza sets his mind to something, he never, ''ever'' relents.



* MagicRealism: Though not as pronounced as other Marquez novels.

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* MagicRealism: Though not as pronounced as other Marquez novels. There are infrequent ghosts, a frightening, growing doll, and rosebushes planted on the graves of Florentino Ariza's mother and one of hsi many lovers, which grow with such profusion that they take over the cemetery within a few years.



* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: The novel is largely set in an unnamed port city which is quite obviously Cartagena.

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* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: The novel is largely set in an unnamed port city which is quite obviously Cartagena.Cartagena.
* SliceOfLife: The plot meanders slowly, and the novel as a whole resembles this, examining a culture and a place, and the souls who examine it, in a turbulent and changing time.
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Googled this page and discovered the previous editor had placed \'Fernando\' instead of \'Florentino\'. Felt the need to remedy that.


In a port city near the end of the 19th century, the blossoming love between teenagers Fernando Ariza and Fermina Daza is cut short when Fermina's father Lorenzo persuades her to reject her poor suitor in favour of the distinguished Dr Juvenal Urbino.

Fernando resolves to wait for a second chance with Fermina, and when her husband dies in a freak accident, he turns up at her home to once again profess his undying love - [[{{Determinator}} 51 years, 9 months, and 4 days]] after their last contact.

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In a port city near the end of the 19th century, the blossoming love between teenagers Fernando Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza is cut short when Fermina's father Lorenzo persuades her to reject her poor suitor in favour of the distinguished Dr Juvenal Urbino.

Fernando Florentino resolves to wait for a second chance with Fermina, and when her husband dies in a freak accident, he turns up at her home to once again profess his undying love - [[{{Determinator}} 51 years, 9 months, and 4 days]] after their last contact.



* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: America Vicuña commits suicide as a consequence of Fernando's abuse.]]
* HowWeGotHere: The story opens on the day of Dr Urbino's death, and subsequently recounts the history of Fernando and Fermina.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: Fernando.

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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: America Vicuña commits suicide as a consequence of Fernando's Florentino's abuse.]]
* HowWeGotHere: The story opens on the day of Dr Urbino's death, and subsequently recounts the history of Fernando Florentino and Fermina.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: Fernando.Florentino.



* LoveTriangle: Type 4. Fernando is pining after Fermina, who is married to Juvenal.

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* LoveTriangle: Type 4. Fernando Florentino is pining after Fermina, who is married to Juvenal.



* MistakenForGay: Despite Fernando's many trysts, he is so discreet that he is widely believed to have "strange tastes".

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* MistakenForGay: Despite Fernando's Florentino's many trysts, he is so discreet that he is widely believed to have "strange tastes".
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* MagicRealism: Though not as pronounced as other Marquez novels.
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* MistakenForGay: Despite Fernando's many trysts, he is so discreet that he is widely believed to have "strange tastes".

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* MistakenForGay: Despite Fernando's many trysts, he is so discreet that he is widely believed to have "strange tastes".tastes".
* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: The novel is largely set in an unnamed port city which is quite obviously Cartagena.
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* LoveTriangle: Type 4. Fernando is pining after Fermina, who is married to Juvenal.

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* LoveTriangle: Type 4. Fernando is pining after Fermina, who is married to Juvenal.Juvenal.
* MistakenForGay: Despite Fernando's many trysts, he is so discreet that he is widely believed to have "strange tastes".
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: America Vicuña commits suicide as a consequence of Fernando's abuse.]]
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1985 novel by Colombian author Creator/GabrielGarciaMarquez, originally titled ''El amor en los tiempos del cólera".

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1985 novel by Colombian author Creator/GabrielGarciaMarquez, originally titled ''El amor en los tiempos del cólera".
cólera''.
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* ItWillNeverCatchOn: Fermina claims this about airplanes, saying that very few people will want to travel in such an unnatural way.
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* IJustWantToBeLoved: Fernando.

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* IJustWantToBeLoved: Fernando.Fernando.
* LoveTriangle: Type 4. Fernando is pining after Fermina, who is married to Juvenal.

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* HowWeGotHere: The story opens on the day of Dr Urbino's death, and subsequently recounts the history of Fernando and Fermina.

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* BiTheWay: Andrea Verón, a prostitute who is given the nickname "Our Lady of Everyone".
* HowWeGotHere: The story opens on the day of Dr Urbino's death, and subsequently recounts the history of Fernando and Fermina.Fermina.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: Fernando.
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1985 novel by Colombian author Creator/GabrielGarciaMarquez, originally titled ''El amor en los tiempos del cólera".

In a port city near the end of the 19th century, the blossoming love between teenagers Fernando Ariza and Fermina Daza is cut short when Fermina's father Lorenzo persuades her to reject her poor suitor in favour of the distinguished Dr Juvenal Urbino.

Fernando resolves to wait for a second chance with Fermina, and when her husband dies in a freak accident, he turns up at her home to once again profess his undying love - [[{{Determinator}} 51 years, 9 months, and 4 days]] after their last contact.

!!This novel contains examples of:

* HowWeGotHere: The story opens on the day of Dr Urbino's death, and subsequently recounts the history of Fernando and Fermina.

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