Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-162) and index.
Love in the time of cholera / Rubén Pelayo -- Love in the golden years / Roberto González-Echevarría -- The novelist of love / Gene H. Bell-Villada -- Not Flaubert's parrot : Love in the time of cholera / Michael Bell -- "A second chance on earth": the postmodern and the post-apocalyptic in García Márquez's Love in the time of cholera / David Buehrer -- Modernity and marginality in Love in the time of cholera / Mabel Moraña -- Dr. Urbino's parrot / Jean Franco -- The dangers of gullible reading: narrative as seduction in García Márquez's Love in the time of cholera / M. Keith Booker -- Utopia and other commonplaces in García Márquez's El amor en los tiempos del cólera / Anny Brooksbank Jones -- Reading dazzle / Michael Wood