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The treatment of supernatural, magical, or otherwise impossible events, characters, and settings is what defines the magical realism genre. [12] This is demonstrated both in the matter-of-fact tone Marquez uses to place magical phenomenon into seemingly realistic settings, and the ease at which the characters come to accept the magical realism ...
Collection of four short stories written between January and July 1968, a story from 1961, and a story published in 1970. [52] Ojos de perro azul (Eyes of a Blue Dog) 1972 Collection of his early short stories, published in newspapers between 1947 and 1955. [29] Doce cuentos peregrinos (Strange Pilgrims) 1992 A collection of twelve short ...
García Márquez received the Nobel Prize in Literature on 10 December 1982 "for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts". His acceptance speech was entitled "The Solitude of Latin America". [148]
In his Ph.D. dissertation, "Magical Insurrections: Cultural Resistance and the Magic Realist Novel in Latin America", Spindler discusses extensively the cultural issues that magic realism brings about in Latin American narrative. He also explores how the notion of cultural resistance has been incorporated into five Latin American magic realist ...
[2]: 16–18 After Flores's essay, there was a resurgence of interest in marvelous realism, which, after the Cuban revolution of 1959, led to the term magical realism being applied to a new type of literature known for matter-of-fact portrayal of magical events. [2]: 18 Literary magic realism originated in Latin America.
Magical realism has a complicated place in the stories Latine people tell about themselves and to others.
Angel Flores, the first to use the term "magical realism", set the beginning of the movement with this book. [1] The stories (except Hombre de la esquina rosada) are fictionalised accounts of real criminals. The sources are listed at the end of the book, but Borges makes many alterations in the retelling—arbitrary or otherwise—particularly ...
It is a melting of the visible and the tangible, the hallucination and the dream. It is similar to what the surrealists around [André] Breton wanted and it is what we could call "magic realism." [62] Although the two genres shared much in common, magical realism is often considered as having been born in Latin America.