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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez creates the fascinating story, One Hundred Years of Solitude by interchangeably using themes such as magic realism, incest, time, plagues, religion and politics (just to name a few); and strangely but uniquely these themes all fit perfectly together just like a puzzle. ... “It was the extraordinary international success of One Hundred Years of Solitude which made “Magic Realism” a popular term” (Levitt 227).
According to chapter ten in the book 100 years of Solitude: Modes of Readings by Regina James, Anglo-American critics believe that One Hundred Years of Solitude was written based on Garcia’s imagination and that it is not meant to be realistic. ... If this is the case, One Hundred Years of Solitude is not a magic realist text since the events can be described mostly fantastic. ... Critics who don’t believe that One Hundred Years of Solitude is considered a magic realist text are called “strict constructionists”. ... Ferguson, being a strict constructionist does not believe that the novel falls into the magic realism category because of such fantastic events like, Melquiades’s return from the dead, “He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude” (Marquez, 54). ...
The term “marvelous reality” was developed by Carpentier to describe what he thought One Hundred Years of Solitude was representing as a form of literature. ...
Regina James continues in her article that the term “magic realism” can be used to describe or categorize One Hundred Years of Solitude depending on how one understands the text. ... This idea can be used to help understand the concept of “magic realism” in One Hundred Years of Solitude. ...
Many events that occur in One Hundred Years of Solitude need to be explained since most of them are strange and confusing. ... McMurray states the idea of magic realism well, “as best exemplified by One Hundred Years of Solitude, Garcia’s Marquez’s ingenious mixture of realism and fantasy has resulted in the creation of a total fictional universe in which the commonplace takes on an aura of magic and the impossible is made believable.
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Title: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Words: 1656
Rating: None
Pages: 6.6
submitted by: jd9148
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