About the cinematic adaptation of Love in the Time of Cholera. Notes on Cinema and Literature
About the cinematic adaptation of Love in the Time of Cholera. Notes on Cinema and Literature

Summary/Abstract: The author discusses the relationship between literature and cinema, using the lifelong “love and hate affair” Gabriel García Márquez has had with the motion picture industry. The discussion is based on an analysis of the filmed version of Love in the Time of Cholera and the problems that emerged from the production, distribution and reception of the movie. One central hypothesis of this article is that the cinema and magic realism cannot come together. The author discusses the problem of the Writer and the issue of transforming a literary work into a cinematic production. While analysing the problem of adaptation in the case of Love in the Time of Cholera, the author tries to pinpoint the intricate relationship between magic realism as literature and the magic of reality in cinema.

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