Love in the Time of Cholera the reader is reminded repeatedly of his more sinister exploits. The novel examines romantic love in myriad forms, both "ideal" and "depraved", and continually forces the reader to question such ready-made characterizations by introducing elements antithetical to these facile judgments. García Márquez's main notion is that lovesickness is literally an illness, a disease comparable to cholera. Florentino suffers from this just as he might suffer from any malady. At one point, he conflates his physical pain with his amorous pain when he vomits after eating flowers in order to imbibe Fermina's scent. In the final chapter, the Captain's declaration of
The Time Traveler's Wife out by what somebody else might do with it. And it is sort of thrilling and creepy, because now the characters have an existence apart from me." In general, the film received mixed-to-negative reviews. For example, "The New York Times" wrote that the film was an "often ridiculous, awkward, unsatisfying and dour melodramatic adaptation". In July 2018, HBO secured the rights to adapt the novel into a television series to be written by Steven Moffat. The Time Traveler's Wife The Time Traveler's Wife is the debut novel of American author Audrey Niffenegger, published in 2003. It is a love story