Axel Munthe y la historia de San Micheleuna relación en El amor en los tiempos del cólera, de Gabriel García Márquez
- 1 Universidad de Huelva, España
ISSN: 0210-4547, 1988-2351
Year of publication: 2022
Issue Title: Monográfico: Redes y rutas femeninas del exilio español en Argentina
Issue: 51
Pages: 199-209
Type: Article
More publications in: Anales de literatura hispanoamericana
Abstract
The primary objective of this article is to prove that the rereading of Axel Munthe’s La historia de San Michele (1929) made by Gabriel García Márquez at the beginning of the eighties as a preparation for the writing of El amor en los tiempos del cólera (1985) had a great importance in the final result of this last one, producing what Claudio Guillén would call a “significant influence”. In this way, it will be proved that Munhte’s work provided the Colombian writer with some key ideas about the relation between love and disease that he would later develop in his own novel with his particular style and wit. But, above all, it will be proved that the characterization of one of the protagonists of El amor en los tiempos del cólera, doctor Juvenal Urbino, arises from a fusion of the characteristics of two other doctors who are present in La historia de San Michele: doctor Jean-Martin Charcot and Axel Munthe himself.
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