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terms of socially, politically and culturally and because of their importance and their effect on
the life of the people these issues have become the obsession of Latin American authors. These
authors are not unaware of their role in reviewing the historical events that have been forgotten
deliberately and they are constantly burrowing the history in their narratives for thought
4. The story of One Hundred Years of Solitude is abundant with paragraphs narrated in magic
realism, combining imagination with the real. Garcia Marquez’s ability to encompass all the
fairy tales characters and to create a new story that unites the real and the marvelous in a
real way makes his work intriguing and genuine. He consciously uses fairy tales, mythology
and history in his writings to enchant his readers with the narrative of magic realism.
5. The contents of magical realism (a term coined in the 1920s) were already spreading
in the 1950s throughout Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and the United
States among writers, publishers, scholars and the intelligentsia. But they only
became a novelty for the cultural industry and mass readers after the release of
OHYS.
6. Garcia Marquez claims he "was able to write One Hundred Years of Solitude
7. Garcia Marquez suggests that the magic text is, paradoxically, more realistic than a “realistic”
text. And this realism is conjured up by a series of magical supplements—such as those found in
8. Garcia sought to destroy “ the lines that separate what seems real from what seems
fantastic.”
9. In many ways Garcia Marquez has fended off his critics and analysts by always doing what is
exactly right, not thinking about what is right. This trait of his writing seems to have a touch of
magic about it and yet it always rings so true, so real, hence magic realism
10. The magic realism in Garcia Marquez's novel forms a broad and diverse spectrum ranging
from the literally extraordinary though Magic Realism in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One
Hundred Years of Solitude nonetheless possible, to the farthest extremes of the physically
11. References:
Bell-Villada, Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude: A Casebook Oxford:
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Oxford University 2002
The New trends in Latin American bloom “Magical Realism” in the Novel of Gabriel García Márquez’
One Hundred Years of Solitude – a Postcolonial Study. K. Thomas Alwa Edison Volume 02, No.1, Jan
- Feb 2015
How a literary work becomes a classic: The case of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Alvaro Santana-
Source: Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Summer, 1988), pp. 140-154
“One Hundred Years of Solitude” and “Pedro Paramo”: A Parallel by Suzanne Jill Levine, Books Abroad
Beyond Magic Realism: Thoughts on the Art of Gabriel García Márquez Author(s): Gregory Rabassa
Source: Books Abroad, Vol. 47, No. 3 (Summer, 1973), pp. 444-450