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About: Man search for Meaning is a 1946  book by Viktor Frankl chronicling his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II and describing his psychotherapeutic method, which involved identifying a purpose in life to feel positive about, and then immersively imagining that outcome. He hoped to cure through his writings the personal alienation and cultural malaise that plagued many individuals who felt an 'inner emptiness' or a 'void within themselves'. Summary & More About Book: Viktor Frankl was one of the few, who survived in the place, where your chances of dying are higher than those of living on any given day. After three years in various concentration camps, his camp Turkheim was liberated, upon which he returned to Vienna, where he was born. Frankl spent the rest of his life teaching what he'd learned during the worst of times: that people can, and must, find meaning in their lives, even if all they know is tremendous sufferi...

About: Love in the Time of Cholera is a novel published in Spanish in 1985 by Nobel prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez, Alfred A. Knopf published an English translation in 1988, and an English Language movie adaptation was released in 2007. Summary: The Story starts from the day of Dr Juvenal Urbino's death. He is a highly successful doctor who has done much for Caribbean city in which he lives, so death has a great effect on the city. The two who are most affected are Fermina Daza, his widow, and Florentino Ariza, the man who has been waiting for him to die for fifty-one years. Florentino Ariza professes, for a second time, his "eternal fidelity and everlasting love" to the Doctor and his wife, Fermina Daza. Fermina is horrified by such an insensitive display, and, for the first time, she realizes the magnitude of "drama" she had provoked at the age of eighteen. Although Fermina Daza may have Florentino Ariza from her memory, he has not stopped thinkin...