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Magical Realism In 100 Years Of Solitude By Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Magic Realism, or what is known as amazing surprising realism, is a key

genre found in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, which
is defined as a style of storytelling that paints a realistic view of the modern
world while also adding magic elements. This theme is important to the novel as
it employs fantasy elements such as the ability of the real character to swim in
space, fly in the air, and move static objects by simply thinking about them, or
with hidden powers in order to contain successive real political events, and
show them in a way that amazes the reader and confuses his senses, so he
cannot distinguish between what is real and what It is fictional.

In this essay, I will look at three scenes that embody magic realism. First:
the existence of the village of Macondo itself, as it does not exist in reality, but
rather it is a figment of the writer's imagination. Second: imagining the birth of
children with pigtails just to marry a woman from his own blood, and finally to
give an ordinary drink, like chocolate, one of the priests a superpower so as to
rise six inches above the level of the ground.

In this paper, I can argue that the writer combined magic and reality to
create for us a literary excitement of a special kind. The creativity in the novel
comes from the fact that Marquis paints a picture of events for a long period of
time spanning a hundred years imagining it in a specific place in the world. The
time is not real nor the place, but both could be reflections of the world map. In
order to confirm the literature of magic realism, we find that the writer
sometimes does not care about the determination of time and at other times it
determines it with the utmost accuracy, which creates a state of pleasure for the

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reader that causes him to fly in the sky between reality and imagination. To
proof my argument, I take this excerpt from the story “It rained for four years,
eleven months, and two days”.

The spatial space of the events of the novel 'The City of Macondo' is the
embodiment of magic realism in itself. Macondo is the legendary village where
most of the literary work of the famous Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquis
is revolted, an unrealistic fictional place, created by the imagination of Marquis.
However, the fact that Macondo was not found on the map does not mean that
it does not exist. In fact, the fictional stories that are repeated by generation
after generation, along with the hustle and bustle of music and songs in the
midst of intense heat, as the townspeople gather to play cards, are activities
that all take place in hundreds of Colombian towns across the Caribbean
region, which Each of them can be similar to a Macondo.

Macondo descends into a dictatorship. While “a hundred years of

isolation” is rooted in South America, the moral and physical collapse of the
village of Macondo reflects the decline of other civilizations, especially ancient
Greece, and it is a warning to all of us. Modernity without morals is not
progressed. The name 'Macondo' has entered the language of many Latin
American countries as a representative example of a place where extraordinary
news events happen, or for those whose birthplace is somewhat quirky. The
Chilean refugees in Vienna, Austria, fleeing the rule of dictator Pinochet in the
1970s, called their asylum places 'Macondo'. Their descendants, as well as
refugees from other regimes, still live there.

The name of the city came to Colonel Aureliano Buendía in his dream
when he was camping beside the river during the second civil war “He asked
what city it was and they answered him with a name that he had never heard,
that had no meaning at all, but that had a supernatural echo in his dream:
Macondo”.

From within the dirty world, a baby can be born with a pig's tail. Aureliano
Babilonia, who reads the notes when they were in his hands, remains alone at

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home with Amaranta Úrsula, who is deserted by her Belgian husband. When
they remain alone, Aureliano Babilonia and Amaranta Úrsula, unaware of the
relationship between them, fall in love and have a baby born with a pig’s tail.
Amaranta dies from bleeding, and Aureliano drinks to the dregs and is caught
by a former lover from the street. No one in the Buendía family would marry a
woman with the same blood, because the children would be born with pig’s
tails. “With any of them, your children will come out with the tail of a pig.”

A regular chocolate drink gives the priest extraordinary strength when

drinking. Father (Nicanor) greedily swallows a cup of hot chocolate every time
before he gets off the ground, this creates the impression of the bystanders that
the simple drink has to do with the supernatural power of the priest. “Thereupon
Father Nicanor rose six inches above the level of the ground”.

So, I have argued that through magical realism, the novel enables us to
see an objective view of real life, embodied in the imagination of itself, and
features of the unfamiliar appear in cases of similarity of fictional stories full of
obsessions of the present, making room in a magical environment that
alleviates social and human misery, in a way in which the magic coincides with
the rigidity of reality and violence that dominates everyday life.

For over a hundred years, events and conflicts have been portrayed by
Marquis in an interesting and exciting manner, through his narration, cultural
background, and attitudes towards politics, love, and marriage to relatives, and
as a social norm that such a marriage accompanies a fatal curse of the family
itself by producing strange and distorted creatures. In addition to the
manifestations of family members in Marvelous beliefs of magic and sorcery, all
of which Marquez loves in the characters of his novel, and builds a world in a
strange and secluded style. With the rise of the drama in the novel and the
complexity of the events, until we reach the end of the novel, I was surprised
that Marquis destroyed what he built. He destroyed all those characters with a
devastating historical moment as if he wanted to send a message of his refusal
for that style of living or he was not convinced of this model of society he built
with his imagination and thought and wished It has no existence on our planet.
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 There is no doubt that what is meant by Macondo is to be a mirror of the
reality of what is happening not only in Colombia but all over South America,
which lived in isolation from the world that has kept an intermittent connection
with it, only through the “Melquíades” gypsies, who invade it on the basis of
wonders. Completely comparable, with beads and ornaments that always
served missionaries and conquerors, but all this would have little value if
Marquis had not relied on his legendary narrative style, and on all the magic
that merges continuously with reality, which led to a legendary world that arose
through Very expressive language.

If we do not understand things this way, it will be difficult for us to

understand the novel in the way the author intended. Instead, many could
accuse the writer of his style distracting ideas and lacking realism, and this, of
course, is an inaccurate judgment for a novel that the author won the Nobel
Prize in 1982 for it, has been translated to 46 different languages and 50 million
copies out of it are already sold.