Love in the Time of Cholera | Essays and Criticism

  • Deep Themes of the Popular Conceptions of Love

    In the following essay, Lilburn, examines how Garcia Marquez uses the conventions of sentimental romance stories to explore deeper themes and even satirize popular conceptions of love.

  • Mementos Mon

    In this review, Franco notes that in Love in the Time of Cholera Garcia Marquez sets his love story against a background of decay and mortality, explaining that "the humor and pathos of aging and death are subjects that have obsessed Garcia Marquez from his earliest writings."

  • The Love-Dream of a Prodigious Sleeper

    In the following review, Eder places Love in the Time of Cholera in the tradition of magic realism, explaining that in the static, inert world of Garcia Marquez's novel "the sole principle of order ... consists of the extraordinary sweetness he finds in his characters."