Health humanities scholars have argued that because one of the novel’s main characters, Juvenal Urbino, is a doctor, Love in the Time of Cholera not only provides practitioners and medical students with an entry point into the text but also valuable insights about good medical practice (Jones 1997 Clarfield 2007 Toledo-Pereyra 2008). Set in an unnamed Latin American nation (most likely Colombia) on the Caribbean Coast, the novel also examines one’s relationship to space and place as well as the deceptive nature of nostalgia. Spanning a fifty-year period between the late-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, the novel explores themes including love, death, and aging. Told in free indirect discourse, the story, organized through a series of flashbacks presented in non-linear fashion, follows the lives of Fermina and Florentino from their initial childish infatuations, through their separation, to their eventual reconciliation in old age. First published in Spanish in 1985 (with an English translation 1 by Edith Grossman in 1988), the novel tells the story of a love triangle between Fermina Daza, Juvenal Urbino (Fermina’s husband), and Florentino Ariza (a man obsessed with Fermina). García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera is a darling of medical school humanities training.
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I read Kim Stanley Robinson’s, New York 2140 this year, which imagined a New York underwater. Usually climate fiction strives to warn people of the dangers of global warming. Peter Evans, lawyer for billionaire and environmental enthusiast George Morton, is unwittingly sucked into the race to expose the bad guys and foil their plans. I mean it’s all there in the plot summary: environmental extremists are running around the globe trying to cause or amplify “natural” disasters. When the pandemic began in earnest in this country, and the schools were closed in my region I hoped to aid the parents of my nephews and great-nieces by coming over and doing stuff with the kids. We can make informed guesses, and the oil decline went down a well-marked path, but these brief but significant negative numbers were still remarkable, foreseeable in the short term, but wild in the long. 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On breakfast: Eating an egg from the shell takes not only practice, but resolution, even courage, possibly willingness to commit crime. He just doesn’t accept the lap hypothesis. So what is ‘escapism’ an accusation of? On her new cat: He still won’t sit on a lap…I don’t know if he ever will. On cultural perceptions of fantasy: The direction of escape is toward freedom. On the absurdity of denying your age, she says, If I’m ninety and believe I’m forty-five, I’m headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub. No Time to Spare collects the best of Ursula’s blog, presenting perfectly crystallized dispatches on what matters to her now, her concerns with this world, and her wonder at it. Now she’s in the last great frontier of life, old age, and exploring new literary territory: the blog, a forum where her voice-sharp, witty, as compassionate as it is critical-shines. Le Guin has taken readers to imaginary worlds for decades. Le Guin, and with an introduction by Karen Joy Fowler, a collection of thoughts-always adroit, often acerbic-on aging, belief, the state of literature, and the state of the nation. Or the fact that she has lovingly described perfect breasts, perfect buttocks, perfect legs, perfect whatever - described with the same relish during the scenes of sexual assault as those later on when she decides to take one for the team and sleep with a guy to get him to feel better about himself. But no, she's not defined by her sexuality or her body at all. The character who a few weeks later attempts to seduce the main male character as a way to get him out of his depression? Yes that one. The character we're introduced to as she's repeatedly sexually assaulted while in the line of duty? Yes, that one. I can just imagine this author patting himself on the back for creating such a "strong female character" as Safa. 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