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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 ...
The story has received several critical responses, most of which comment on Marquez's use of the magical realism genre. In an article for the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts , Greer Watson commented that there is little that is considered fantastic about the story, rather that elements such as the old man's wings are presented as an ...
The story is told in a "highly oral style of a public storyteller or carnival barker." [4] The story is set in the mythical town of Macondo, the setting of García Márquez's famous novel One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish: Cien años de soledad). Big Mama's Funeral is one of only three of the author's short stories set in the town. [5]
Magical realism has a complicated place in the stories Latine people tell about themselves and to others.
El Señor Presidente (Mister President) is a 1946 novel written in Spanish by Nobel Prize-winning Guatemalan writer and diplomat Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899–1974). A landmark text in Latin American literature, El Señor Presidente explores the nature of political dictatorship and its effects on society.
These often fantastical stories helped to bring about a new aesthetic, which morphed into magical realism and "(as conceived by Alejo Carpentier) marvelous realism or lo real maravilloso. According to this aesthetic, unreal things are treated as if realistic and mundane, and mundane things as if unreal.
Magical realism, magic realism, or marvelous realism is a style or genre of fiction and art that presents a realistic view of the world while incorporating magical elements, often blurring the lines between speculation and reality. [1] Magical realism is the most commonly used of the three terms and refers to literature in particular.
Latin American literature consists of the oral and written literature of Latin America in several languages, particularly in Spanish, Portuguese, and the indigenous languages of Latin America. This article is only about Latin American literature from countries where Spanish is the native/official language (e.g. former Spanish colonies).