The Voice of the Cloud

There are no chapters in the original book "Love in Cholera Period", so I think it is possible to disturb several large pieces of the whole book and read it smoothly.

However, I didn't read the whole book, only the first chunk. This first chunk can be called the introduction, preface and even prequel of the story.

The story can be completely independent of the novel itself and has its own connection. For the love story during the cholera period, its function may be limited to changing the heroine from a wife to a single one, telling everyone what kind of life the heroine lived on the long road of life and how to understand her.

After checking the map, combined with the author Ma Jun's own feelings, I personally think that the story takes place in barranquilla, Colombia, where there is a river along the coast near the equator, which is a typical hot tropical climate.

This story is about1Sunday, June 8, 930. It was Pentecost. During the day, the dignitaries in the city held a grand mass, while the poor began to prepare for the carnival after religious fasting.

At 6 o'clock that day, the night watchman informed the police and doctors. At the same time, the oldest doctor in the city, Hu Weina urbino, aged 8 1 year, went to the home of an exile, a child photographer and his good friend, Remia de San Amor, to deal with an emergency-to conduct an autopsy on his good friend de San Amor.

During the autopsy, he found a letter left by his friend. According to the information left in the letter, the respected doctor decided to give up the mass starting at 9 o'clock and go to the slums of the city to find the secret of his friend's suicide. Because his best friend committed suicide in the usual way of double martyrdom at that time, in his opinion, how could his best friend with crippled legs commit suicide in this way?

In a hut in a slum, he found the photographer's secret crush, a woman wearing roses and mourning clothes. The woman explained the secret of the photographer's suicide-the photographer's fear of aging. She even told the doctor that she was the last person the photographer saw before he died. And she loves photographers so much, but she will always be a secret admirer. "She will continue to live in this poor man's grave (slum house) as before, because she has experienced happiness here."

When the doctor came home, it was before 10 am. He had planned to take a nap before the celebration ceremony (12 noon) that students had practiced for 25 years. But catching parrots at home is very noisy. This parrot is the only animal that his 72-year-old wife Dasa can keep, although doctors spend more time on parrots than his son.

Dasha was a beauty, both when she was young and when she was old. Like most people, she shared their secrets with the doctor's married life and occasionally quarreled over trifles. Sometimes I try to tell whether the interdependence between two people is based on love or habit. The book even describes in detail a small fragment of their four-month cold war for soap together.

The couple set off at 1 1 to attend the 25th anniversary luncheon of Dr. urbino's student internship in the old city. However, due to the sudden arrival of natural disasters (a rainstorm), the order of the banquet was particularly chaotic. In the chaos, the doctor tried his best to enjoy the band's performance, and the music made the doctor feel relaxed and energetic. At the banquet, he told the Archbishop that the photographer committed suicide, and told the Archbishop that the photographer was a saint. This makes the archbishop extremely unhappy (according to Christian doctrine, the soul of a person who commits suicide cannot ascend to heaven, that is, suicide is guilty. However, this did not affect the doctor's mood. He had a glass of wine at the end of the party.

At about 2 o'clock, in order to catch the photographer's funeral, the doctor and his wife Dasha left the party early and went home. The doctor took the time to take a nap, while his wife Dasha was busy cleaning up the bedroom destroyed by firefighters to catch parrots.

Just before 4 o'clock, his wife Dasha reminded the doctor to prepare for the funeral, and the doctor suddenly found the missing parrot. By virtue of his close contact with the parrot, the doctor took risks and caught this clever parrot (probably because of drinking). As a result, at 4: 07, the doctor ended his life (yes, the doctor fell dead). My last words were to say to his wife Dasha, "Only God knows how much I love you."

People attending the luncheon rushed to pay tribute to the doctor, and neighbor florentino Ariza also came to help: "On that flustered night, no one appeared more timely than him, and no one tried harder than him."

The funeral of 1 1 the next morning (Monday) rained again, and few people attended the doctor's funeral (decent doctor, disgraceful funeral).

At 8 o'clock in the evening, after saying goodbye to all the guests, the widow Dasa was surprised to find her neighbor Ariza in mourning standing in the empty living room waiting for her and said to her, "Fermin, I have been waiting for this opportunity for more than half a century, just to reaffirm my eternal loyalty and immortal love to you again."

The widow Dasha drove Ariza away and wept alone in the dark. When she woke up in the morning (Tuesday), her widow Dasa found that she was not crying for her husband, nor for her lonely days in the future, but for Ariza.

At this point, the introduction of love in the cholera period ended.

In tomorrow's analysis, I will analyze how the characters and authors in the first chapter deal with these tasks. See you tomorrow!