| Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a Colombian writer, awarded the NobelPrize in Literature in1982, once again drew the attention from all overthe world with his first special novel “Love in the Time ofCholera”,written in1985. In his opinion, the novel is the most satisfiedwork and the only one that can be comparable to, and in some way isanother “One Hundred Years of Solitude”. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is athinker of love and death. The instinct of love and death as a "survivalaesthetics" existing in life completely,which makes the value of liferealized in the unity of opposites.The paper discusses it in the following five parts:The first part elaborates Gabriel Garcia Marquez, his writings andresearch summaries. The “pen of death” of Marquez narrates thealoneness of Latin America, and the “pen of love” narrates hisemotional experiences,which searches life’s exports for LatinsAmericans. Love and death theme is what Gabriel Garcia Marquezfocuses on life. The history of researches has no systematicarguments on this topic but only some partial analysis.The second part discusses the connotation of love and deaththeme of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Originated from ancient Greek and Roman stories and the Bible, the literary theme of love and death hasa long history through development of the western literature.Duringthe development of the theme,the work’s uniqueness lies in hiscomprehensive display of love both in breadth and depth, his love anddeath goes through the death of love fondness and body, and threat ofloneliness and elder.This novel ranges widely, containing the wholeprocess of life journey.The third part analyzes the cause of the love and death theme ofGabriel Garcia Marquez. Latin America’s culture and its uniqueemotion cognition give the writer unique theme expression. Thecreation of the writer and his life experience also have an impact onthe performance of the love and death.The fourth part explores Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s manifestationof love and death theme, and explains the relationship between loveand death in terms of theory:in the opposition, love instinct is aconstructive force, indicating the continuation of life; while deathinstinct is the power of destruction, which represents the death oflife. However, love and death comes to pursuit of the spirit, thereis,the existence of love is home to the fear of death and the threat ofold age.The fifth part tells the aesthetic value of love and death. Theexpression form of love and death provides readers an aestheticpleasure, Love and death as a spirit and life redemption make theresurrection possible. The existence of individuals are endowed withnew value. Love and death theme gives attention to human, praise tothe human instinct, sensibility and the body, as well as is the human"existential aesthetics ". Its aesthetic value lies in the establishment of the individuality.Gabriel Garcia Marquez only admitted himself a realist writer. Thework with Latin America as the background, shows love and death inan unique way. With a new art form, he expands the breadth anddepth of love and death. Studying the theme of the work is beneficialfor our better understanding of the creative theme of Gabriel GarciaMarquez and Latin American people’s view of emotion and life It’shoped that we readers could gain value of life from Love in the Time ofCholera through the interpretation of love and death. |
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