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  2. A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Gabriel García Márquez bibliography - Wikipedia

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    García Márquez is recognized as a pivotal figure inLatin American literature around the world, [2] as one of the founders of the magical realism genre. [3] [4] His contributions helped elevate Latin American literature to global prominence.

  4. Magical realism - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Does Every Latine Story Have to be About Magical Realism? - AOL

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    Magical realism has a complicated place in the stories Latine people tell about themselves and to others.

  6. El Señor Presidente - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Big Mama's Funeral - Wikipedia

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    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]

  8. Pedro Páramo - Wikipedia

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    Critics primarily consider Pedro Páramo as either a work of magic realism or a precursor to later works of magic realism; this is the standard Latin American interpretation. [10] [3] [11] However, magical realism is a term coined to note the juxtaposition of the surreal to the mundane, with each bearing traits of the other. It is a means of ...

  9. Q&A: Author Rebecca Serle shares what's behind her 'magical ...

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    SERLE: In college I would write magical realism short stories. I read a lot of Aimee Bender and Haruki Murakami and enjoyed the way they would open up a universe and not explain it. Something ...