Márquez & Magical Realism

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Biography of Gabriel GarcaMrquez & Magical Realism

and the Boom

By:Shanel ChisholmMadhavika GopalDaniel Schwapp


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He has written screenplays and has continued to work as ajournalist.

Some of his works are:

1. Love in the Time of Cholera

2. Autumn of the Patriarch

3. One Hundred Years of Solitude

4. Chronicle of a Death Foretold etc,

Most of his novels are related to some aspect of Mrquezs life. Chronicleof a Death Foretold is base on a murder that took place in Sucre in1951. Santigos character is based on one of Mrquezs childhoodfriends, Cayetano Gentile Chimento.


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Mrquezs grandmother Doa Tranquilina Iguarn Cotes

influenced his writing tremendously. As a child hisgrandmother told him stores of ghosts, premonitions ( strong

feelings that something is about to happen), omen and

portent (a sign that something is likely to happen).

According to Garca Mrquez she was "the source of the

magical, superstitious and supernatural view of reality".


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Magical Realism and theBoom

The Latin American Boomwas a literary movement of

the 60s and 70s when young Latin Americannovelists works were being circulated around Europe.

Writers like:

- Julio Cortzar of Argentina

- Carlos Fuentes of Mexico

- Mario Vargas Llosa of Peru

- Gabriel Garca Mrquez of Colombia


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Mrquez is the most internationally renowned of the Boom

writers.

He has achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread

commercial success, most notably for introducing what has

been labeled Magical Realism to the literary world.

He experimented with more or less traditional approaches to

reality, so that "the most frightful, the most unusual things are

told with the deadpan expression.


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What is Magical Realism?

- It is an aesthetic style of fiction in which magical elements

blend with the real world. The story explains these magical

elements as real occurrences- a mixture of real world and

fantasy

Why is Magical Realism used?

- Magical Realism rose in popularity during the time of the boom.

This form of telling a story makes people want to read more. It

brings about a connection between real life and fantasy. Also,it was used as an educational tool.


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Magical Realism inChronicle of a Death Foretold

There are many example of Magical Realism in the novel.

The dreams Santiago had Hed dreamed he was going

through a grove of timber trees where a gentle drizzle

was falling, and for an instant he was happy in his

dream (3)

he was alone in a tinfoil airplane an lyin through the

almond trees without bumping into anything (4)

Placida Linero closes the door and doesnt let Santiago

enter, and he dies on the door.


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Xius died because of sadness, He was healthier thanthe rest of us, but when you listened with the

stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside

his heart (37).

Santiagos Mother can analyze dreams but, fails to

predict what is going to happen to her son.

The Narrators mother just gets to know things.


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So he put the knife in his hand and dragged him off

almost by force in search of their sister's lost honour.There's no way out of this," he told him. "It's as if it

had already happened.They left by way of the pigpen

gate with the knives unwrapped, trailed by the uproar

of the dogs in the yards.(61)


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In addition, the dogs, aroused by the smell of death,

increased the uneasiness. They hadn't stopped howling sinceI went into the house, when Santiago Nasar was still in hisdeath throes in the kitchen and I found Divina Flor weepingin great howls and holding them off with a stick."Help me,"she shouted to me. "What they want is to eat his guts.We

locked them up in the stable. Plcida Linero later orderedthem taken to some place far off until after the funeral. Buttoward noon, no one knew how, they escaped from wherethey were and burst madly into the house. Plcida Linero,

just once, lost her grip."Those shitty dogs!" she shouted. "Killthem!(74)


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They pushed open the door to the courtyard,

surrounded by the dogs, who recognised them in thehalf light of dawn, and they greeted Prudencia Cotes's

mother in the kitchen.(62)


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