I was surprised that the genre romance doesn't seem to be an area recognised in many books of literature that researched. In fact in a book, 1001 books you must read before you die, there was a genre rural but no genre romance.
During our lunch last Sunday's family, I asked members of my family, who are all avid readers and writers on different themes for your favorite romance writer. My wife, Neni STA. Cruz Romana, which is a well-known writer, said his favorite was gone with the wind. Those who read the book or seen the movie will remember that famous scene when the heroine, Scarlett O'Hara, finally declares her love to the hero who had been its all throughout the novel. Then came the answer from Rhett Butler: "frankly, my dear I don't give a damn!"
My daughter Tanya Cross Duldulao chose Wuthering Heights, the only novel written by Emily Bronte. The novel focuses on the doomed love between Hamlet, an orphan tormented and Catherine Earnshaw, daughter of vain and intentional of their benefactor. Her novel childhood transforms a passionate love, when they meet again in his adult life. But class differences to keep them separate and deathbed scene of Catarina is a telling representation of why love hurts.
My son Roel, which is ending his m.a. in creative writing in La Salle, chose which tender is the Night by f. Scott Fitzgerald. This novel is a story of two American expatriates living in France during the 1920s, a talented young psychiatrist, Dick Diver and the rich, disturbed patient who became his wife. In this tragic tale of romance, your lifestyle lush began to destroy the diver, like alcohol, infidelities, mental illness and asserts that their hopes.
Personally I remember only one book with romantic love as the theme of reading. This was the story of love by Erich Segal. I still remember the line "Love is never to say you're sorry."
These four books, Gone With the Wind, Wuthering Heights, the tender is the night and the story of love, have one thing in common. They all have tragic endings where the hero and heroine do not end up with others. I would have thought that novels should have happy endings.
But then I remember that love stories of the greatest English writer, William Shakespeare, also were tragedies. The classic story of two Star-Crossed Lovers Romeo and Juliet, is perhaps the most romantic story of all time. Romeo and Juliet saw their love ruined by circumstances outside their control, owned by two families who hate reasons overlooked. Have paid the ultimate price for the brief, intense and pure love that they shared. This same theme has been repeated even in many modern dramas like West Side Story.
Of course, I have read many books where the novel was intertwined with the story. Novels as for whom the bell tolls by Ernest Hemingway, East of Eden, John Steinbeck and Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. Always thought the Hunchback of Notre Dame (in English), also from Hugo, was a history major but tragic love story of hunchbacked Quasimodo Bell touch, whose unrequited love for the Gypsy dancer Emerald ends very badly, makes me feel that the novel did not have a happy ending, although Emerald met with his "true love". Sometimes I wonder if unable Quasimodo win the love of the girl even if he was so physically deformed. After all, that is what happened in the fairytale beauty and the beast.
But these books are generally included in the genre of historical fiction.
However, if we stretch our imagination a little, romantic novels and legends that may not be books purely romantic, but where the love story has a happy ending.
In the Odyssey of Homer, the hero Ulysses is finally reunited with his beloved Queen Penelope after many years of battles and adventures. In the book of love in the time of cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the story is about Florentino Ariza, who expects 50 for his first love. After his beloved husband passes away, Ariza redeclares his passion and is immediately rejected by the widow raging. But Ariza strengthens its efforts and this love of time, after 50 years (!) finally conquers all, including a cholera epidemic.
Maybe this week, it is better to remember the love stories with happy endings. After all, the writer Christopher Morley once said: "if all we found that we had only five minutes to say everything I wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that he loved him.
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