Love in the Time of Cholera
Novel by Gabriel García MárquezWikipedia
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Search complete. 18 mentions across 10 episodes found for "Love in the Time of Cholera".
Oct 19, 2026
Bob CarrGUEST
It was very good.
Bob CarrGUEST
I mean, Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Love in the Time of Cholera, which has got a lot of truth in it about marriage, said the thing about marriage or a family is not love, it's stability.
Bob CarrGUEST
It's stability, the stability that a good partnership brings.
Bob CarrGUEST
And I just, nothing depresses me like hearing of youngsters who have to grow up with their parents quarrelling, let alone inflicting violence on one another.
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Bob CarrGUEST
I think good humour helps in a marriage.
Bob CarrGUEST
Yeah.
Bob CarrGUEST
There's a great quote, I hope I can bring it to mind, I hope I can do it justice, from a book I've mentioned, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera.
Bob CarrGUEST
It's a portrait of a marriage.
Ocean MalandraGUEST
But I have read a couple.
Ocean MalandraGUEST
And I think Love in the Time of Cholera is my favorite.
Ocean MalandraGUEST
And there's some really deep messages in that book.
Ocean MalandraGUEST
what marquez does show you is what the power of literature because he's making deep political and spiritual statements in all of his novels and even though he didn't give birth to magical realism the reason why he's considered the master of it is because he's using that magic to make statements about real life in such a powerful way and i think that's why he's such a heavyweight love in the time of cholera about sailing up and down the rio magdalena and Actually, it's kind of sad because he's talking about the deforestation of it.
Ocean MalandraGUEST
He used that love story to talk about the destruction of Colombia's most important river.
Ocean MalandraGUEST
And to be able to do that, to write like this magical love story while you're talking about a real life ecological tragedy, that's mastery.
Sarah BerryHOST
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Oscar RogersUNKNOWN
But he says, "I've read books like Love in the Time of Cholera.
Oscar RogersUNKNOWN
They're about girls, right?" And then in Serendipity from 2001, he searches for a girl's number written in the front cover of Love in the Time of Cholera.
Sophie BishopHOST
Well.
Sophie BishopHOST
Huh.
BrettHOST
Mm.
AlexHOST
You know? I'm still reading Love in the Time of Cholera.
BrettHOST
Mm-hmm.
AlexHOST
And I'm reading, um, Now I Surrender by Alvaro Enrigue.
AlexHOST
I was gonna say I don't have one, so I'm reading Love in the Time of Cholera still by Gabriel Garcia Mar- Martinez?
BrettHOST
Marquez.
AlexHOST
Marquez [laughs].
BrettHOST
Yeah.
AlexHOST
Jesus Christ.
AlexHOST
Um, Love in the Time of Cholera by Ga- what's his name?
BrettHOST
You just said it.
TavaHOST
Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Brian LeeHOST
Yeah, it's a more, that's a being in time question, right? You know, one of the things that leaps to mind to me in contextualizing that question comes from having spent a little bit of time down in South America and a little bit of time in Africa right around the equator.
Brian LeeHOST
where uh you know that it works from cycles of wet to dry but uh you don't get the same feeling of the cycling the way that you do uh when you get farther from the equator and uh You know, it reminds me of some wonderful books by, is it Gabriel Garcia Marquez? A Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, both of which have that sort of a timeless, like a duration that goes on, but there's nothing to mark it by somehow because very little changes over the cycles.
Brian LeeHOST
And I think it's a hundred years of solitude, maybe where you follow the family through generations.
Brian LeeHOST
And and for many of those years, you know, it's like if if human collective cultural and and cognitive even history is.
Debbie MillmanGUEST
Number two is what I think is one of the greatest love stories of all time.
Debbie MillmanGUEST
It's a book written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez called Love in the Time of Cholera, which has the greatest last line of all time in a book, and so you have to read it all the way through before you get to that.
Debbie MillmanGUEST
And then my third book is a book that I hope one day to be able to do a visual version of.
Debbie MillmanGUEST
Um, I fell in love with this book in college.
David PeckHOST
It's so layered and so deep.
David PeckHOST
Uh, c- can you talk to me a little bit about the opening quote from Love in the Time of Cholera, and how, how when we're closer to death, we're actually closer to love, which is just such a juxtaposition and such a beautiful paradox to me.
Avi NesherGUEST
Well, you know, you know, it's, um...
Avi NesherGUEST
When I first started working on the film, uh, I, I ma- I myself experienced battle in, in Yom Kippur War when, when I was a young officer and, uh, um, two of my childhood friends, uh, got killed.
speaker_1HOST
But through these forced lockdown conversations, the grandmother reveals family secrets, and Luciana finally steps out of her side character role and finds her voice.
speaker_0HOST
And finally, we cannot talk about love and absurdity without mentioning the absolute titan on this list, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez.
speaker_0HOST
If you escaped having to read it in high school, now is the time.
speaker_1HOST
Definitely.
Raeden RichardsonMODERATOR
And it's beautiful.
Min Jin LeeGUEST
Yeah, I was inspired years and years and years ago by Marques's book, Love in the Time of Cholera.
Raeden RichardsonMODERATOR
Mm-hmm.
Min Jin LeeGUEST
Just really a masterwork of old love.