The novel tells the life of the Buendía family who were condemned to a hundred years of loneliness. Gabriel García Márquez (1928-2014) demonstrated the use of magical realist techniques, such as the mixture of real and imaginary or the fusion of myth and history. Within this literary movement, we can mention two outstanding writers: Gabriel García Márquez who wrote, “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, and Isabel Allende with, “The House of the Spirits”.
They try to join the perception of a world that really exists with a completely different interpretation of what it is normal, or conventional. The authors of Magical Realism use their narrative to show different experiences of realities from the characters’ point of view. Readers were comforted to discover characters with ordinary lives who master common realities. Second, is the transformation of the real into the awesome and unreal: time exist in a kind of timeless fluidity and the unreal happens as a part of reality” (p. Dale Carter in his dissertation, “Magical Realism in Contemporary Argentine Fiction” at University of Southern California, expressed “As the paradoxical nature of the term indicates, magical realism is first of all the combination of reality and fantasy. Achitenei mentions the reader who was tired of withstanding the hardness of realism and reality, and the only way to face so much death was to make fun of it. Readers started looking for what magic realism suggests: epic stories adorned with metaphors, hyperboles, and wisdom. Therefore, if the great empires created epics during their times of splendor “now is the turn of any country to create epic stories as fairy tales, within magical realism” (p. Likewise, the author affirms that in a cyclical way, humanity recreates stories to remember his heroes. In this same line, Achitenei affirms that magical realism can assume the ideological role that religion had lost. Due to the great technical advances of the twentieth century, human beings found themselves in doubt about their ‘ancestral beliefs’ and looked for something new to fill the space. On one hand, the author points out the crisis of religion as one of the main causes. Achitenei lists the main causes that led to the emergence of magic realism. Concepts, features, principles, and methods”. To better understand the origin of this literary movement, we can turn to Maria Achitenei “Magic Realism. Magic Realism is characterized by mixing fantastic elements and reality with naturalness and emphasis in myths and culture of Latin America.
However, this data is not enough to speculate that this was how this movement started. There is also a theory that the term Magic Realism was used for the first time in the criticism of a painting in Germany by Franz Roh, where he claimed that a painting showed an exaggerated reality. It was a new form of expression to making the political and the social situations of Latin America’s reality a main premise. Its origin began in Latin America as a legacy that several writers established at the beginning of the last century. Authors such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende incorporated Magical Realism into their writing introducing magical elements to the story without creating any new worlds but suggesting the magic in our own world. Writers tell the story as if the most important were the realistic part, while the magic only represents a minor ordinary detail. All the rules we applied to the ordinary world can be bent at any moment. In Magical Realism, anything is possible. A woman can interact with spirits, a man can live one hundred and forty years, and characters can have conversations with the walls.
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