Alejo Carpentier

Here the strange is commonplace , and always was commonplace”. (Alejo carpentier . 1995 [1975] p. 102-104 ).The Oxford Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms defines magic realism as a “kind of modern fiction in which fabulous and fantastical element are included in a narrative that otherwise maintains the reliable tone of

revolution and demonstrate a period of brutality, injustice and rebellion. The ‘Kingdom of this world’ by Alejo Carpentier accounts the Haitian Revolution and the destruction of the black regime, while ‘Mother of 1084’ narrates the suppression of the Naxalites in Bengal. Also both texts focus more on the rebellion against the revolution than the revolution itself. The interesting fact about Carpentiers text is that he goes against the general assumption of slaves as victims and through his characters,

Use Irony and Magic Realism in One Hundred Years of Solitude       In Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, the realistic description of impossible events is an example of both irony and magic realism. Irony is the use of words, images, and so on, to convey the opposite of their intended meaning. Garcia Marquez employs irony on several levels. Sometimes a single word, such as a character's name, suggests something opposite to the character's personality: for example, Prudencio Aguilar

The phrase “magical realism” in the context of literature was first coined by the Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier to describe the combination of the fantastic and everyday occurrences in Latin American fiction. Over time, the term has been vastly modified by writers from a plethora of backgrounds. Nevertheless, magical realism still refers to the tendency to mix the magical and terrestrial in a context of realistic narration, as seen in the works of Gabriel García Márquez. Born in Columbia, Gabriel

The works of the late 1982 Columbian literary Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garica Marquez reflect not only the sentiments of postcolonial Columbians, but also the surreal realities lived by Latin Americans in the New World. This surreal reality is what Marquez has become synonymous with — magic realism. The literary genre, magic realism, can be found in Marquez’s books and short stories such as 100 Years of Solitude and “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”. Literary critics and audience alike have marveled

Imagery and Metaphor as Resistance in Miguel Asturias' The President In The President, Miguel Angel Asturias uses madness as his initial tool to launch a social examination of evil versus good under the strains of a terrifying dictatorship. To paint a vivid picture of the political and social atmosphere under the regime of The President, Asturias wields rich and abstract imagery, repetition and metaphors throughout his novel to punctuate, foreshadow, and illuminate. Wind is one of these recurring

“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”:Gabriel Garcia- Marquez story “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”, written in 1955, is about a family harboring what is thought to be a fallen old “angel man”, initially thought to be on his way to take their ailing child away. The angel must have been coming for the child, but the poor fellow is so old that the rain knocked him down (Marquez, 1955). The family not knowing how to treat the situation embarks on a journey of mixed emotions of whether the man is

Throughout our time in class, we’ve studied a variety of authors and genres of short stories. One genre in particular that stood out to me is magical realism. Ann Charter defines magical realism in The Story And Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction (Ninth Edition) as “fiction associated with Latin America that interweaves realistic and fantastic details, juxtaposing the marvelous with the ordinary.” Although magical realism originally began exclusively apart of Latin American history, it

Latin American literature is perhaps best known for its use of magical realism, a literary mode where the fantastical is seamlessly blended with the ordinary, creating a sort of enhanced reality. Though magical realism is practiced by authors from other cultures, the works of authors Salman Rushdie and Toni Morrison, for example, are notable examples of non-Latin works in which magical realism has been used to both great effect and great celebration, it is in the works of Latin American authors

Magic or Reality in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Bless Me Ultima      In the South American storytelling tradition it is said that humans are possessed of a hearing that goes beyond the ordinary. This special form is the soul’s way of paying attention and learning. The story makers or cantadoras of old spun tales of mystery and symbolism in order to wake the sleeping soul. They wished to cause it to prick up its ears and listen to the wisdom contained within the telling. These ancient