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    One Hundred Years of Solitude A Novel Lost In Time Zahra Toshani University of Guilan Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences Dr. Barkat PhD. Winter 2011 Table of contents Introduction 1 I. Notion of time and being in Heidegger 2 Existential travel

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    magical realism. Esquivel's novel is awash in such images and these might have been jarring to casual English readers had it not followed so closely in the tradition of what is perhaps the most famous and most widely-read work of magical realism, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 1967 novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. Esquivel's novel, like

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    In the novel 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, many characters are mysterious in their origin however, a band of gypsies appear every March and among them is Melquiades who, throughout the story builds up a mysterious character by bringing mind blowing items into Macondo, dying on multiple occasions, and writing prophecies in a foreign language yet refusing to translate them. Melquiades and his squad of Gypsies appear camping near the town in March bringing items to sell from a place

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    Magical realism is when events, have a magical aspect to them, are entered or set into the mundane world and is naturally accepted into reality. It can include cultural and historical realities placed into ordinary worlds, supernatural people or creatures are otherwise viewed as normal, and even metamorphosis is considered a normal day to day event rather than a miracle. Magical realism may seem like other genres of fiction, however it has its own unique characteristics to characterize it as its

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    Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez are both short stories and both stories show us what is magical realism. According to Anne Hegerfeldt, ' 'magical realism refers to a mode of writing that may most briefly be characterized as an “amalgamation of realism and fantasy”. The term in its present sense was first applied to Latin American literature from the 1960s, with Gabriel Garcia Marquez 's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) ' '. What is

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    Magical realism combines cultural and historical realities with magic to create a normal yet magical setting in a story.Magical realism can include aspects of the mundane and even metamorphosis can be seen throughout stories of magical realism. It is important to know the different aspects magical realism attains. These attributes are expressed throughout the stories, Bless Me, Ultima, “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings”, and “The Handsomest Drowned Man in The World” Many magical realism

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    creating a narrative for generations to relate with. A well-known quote from the book The Autumn of The Patriarch is as follows: “...a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth…” Written by author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, this quote speaks to many people, including myself, of how lies may be useful, harmful, or even eternal. Spoken about what a tyrannical leader discovered in his years of power, the quote provides insight into one of the ways that the dictator

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    A Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez takes place in the approximate years of 1930’s to 1950’s and it talks about the events leading up to and after the murder took place from an unknown point of view. The twins have gone around the town informing people of their plans of murdering Santiago, but it seems like some people don't believe them because they thought they were drunk. The members of the town chose not to tell Santiago of his murder because they didn't believe the twins

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    everyone that they were going to “cut his guts out.” By the time the bishop’s boat arrived, nearly everyone in the town knew about the plot—except the victim Santiago himself. Two of the major moral impacts for any society are religion and honor. In Gabriel Marquez’s story Chronicle of a Death Foretold it seems to indicate that at least in a society at the time, these two moral guides fail at what they are supposed to do for moral stability. Whereas the religion of the town was the reason for how spiritual

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