《霍乱时期的爱情》是马尔克斯获诺贝尔文学奖殊荣后出版的第一部小说,一经问世就受到极大关注。小说以19世纪末哥伦比亚的千日战争为背景,讲述弗洛伦蒂诺和费尔明娜之间跨越50余年的爱情故事。在这部小说里,作者穷尽了爱情的所有可能性,把爱情表达为人生的中心,同时也关注那个时代存在于哥伦比亚的党派纷争、阶级对立、男权主义、霍乱流行等其他重要社会问题,在种种问题的交叉汇聚处凸显哥伦比亚社会纷繁复杂的权力关系。 “Love in the Cholera” was the first novel published after Marquez won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and received great attention when it came out. The novel takes the war of 1000 in Colombia at the end of the 19th century as a backdrop and tells the story of love spanning more than 50 years between Florentino and Fermina. In this novel, the author has exhausted all possibilities of love and expressed his love as the center of his life. At the same time, he also paid attention to other important social issues such as party disputes, class antagonism, patriarchalism and cholera epidemic in Colombia at that time. The cross-cutting issues at various points highlight the complex power relations in Colombian society.