Cartagena, Colombia revels in love, sans cholera-The Colombian port, where Garcia Marquez keeps a home and which inspired his novel, has been buoyed by a wave of tourism.
Tagged: Colombia, Colombian, Gabriel García MárquezPosted on: October 29th, 2007
It was a place that “stood unchanging at the edge of time . . . where flowers rusted and salt corroded, where nothing had happened for four centuries except a slow aging among withered laurels.”
That was Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s rich description of a town very much like this Caribbean port in “Love in the Time of Cholera,” the Nobel laureate’s sultry saga of lust and decay.
Cartagena’s distinctive character and its postcolonial decline may have provided late-20th century inspiration, but this is no longer a cholera-plagued, half-abandoned metaphor for elegant decadence. Far from it.”*
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