The term "magic realism" is a kind of contemporary creative writing in which remarkable and fantastical events are included in a narrative that otherwise maintains the 'reliable' tone of objective realistic report. The term was once applied to a trend in German fiction of the early 1950s, but is now associated chiefly with certain leading novelists of Central and South America, notably Gabriel García Marquez. Marquez is a Colombian novelist and short-story writer, known as one of the masters of magic realism, a style that weaves together realism and fantasy. He won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1982. Magic realism" refers to the description of improbable or impossible events (magic) in the clear, calm, sharply focused language expected in realistic reporting. The description will often include very precise physical details that give an illusion of realism. There are many examples of impossible or improbable events in One Hundred Years of Solitude, almost all of them treated in this realistic way. (Romano, Carlin)
First, it will be helpful to look at the one major exception, a magical event that is treated unrealistically, to illustrate (by contrast) the technique. This is the final destruction of Macondo, the manuscripts, and the Buendia family, where the language as well as the events is magical. Aureliano, who has not moved from the spot where he has first seen his dead son, suddenly "sees" the epigraph of the manuscripts - there is no mention of his going to fetch them, or of what the binding or the handwriting looks like; actually, there is no suggestion at all that what he "sees" is really, materially, before him. Then, after "seeing" their epigraph, he does get the manuscripts, and we are told what they are like physically he found them intact, among the prehistoric plants and steaming puddles and luminous insects which had banished from the room all vestige of the passage of men on the earth, and he did not have the serenity to take them out to the light, but right there, standing, without the least difficulty, as though they had been written in Spanish under the brilliant light of midday, he began to decipher them aloud. (SPILLER, ELIZABETH A)
This essay has the followings:
Total words: 1273
Total reference: 6
Total price: £ 19.95
Click here to Order this essay!
Get Professionally written Essays that are:
• Written According to your Exact Requirements
• 100% Original and Non-Plagiarized
• Written by Expert
UK Writers
• Delivered to you before your deadline
Amazingly Low Prices - £9.95/page
