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... More recently, it has been applied to the works of several writers of fiction, Garcia Marquez prominent among them, as well as Gunter Grass (Germany), John Fowles (England), Italo Calvino (Italy), and several others. ... " (Oxford Companion, 606-607) This essay will examine Gabriel Marquez and it will focus on his use of magical realism in “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"
2584.The Oxford Companion To English Literature
Author :Margaret Drabble 1983
Publisher :Oxford University Press
Gabriel García Márquez was born on March 6, 1928, in Aracataca, a small town near the Colombian city of Cartagena. ... "
In One Hundred Years of Solitude, Marquez incorporates many supernatural motifs like levitation and flying carpets. ... Marquez also creates, in the tradition of the grotesque carnival and supernatural realism, the character of Melquiades, who is an overweight gypsy with supernatural powers. ...
Marquez shows us true human nature. ...
All page references to Collected Short Stories by Gabriel García Márquez
Flores, Angel. ... Gabriel Garcia Marquez. ...
Gabriel Gacia Marquez collected stories New York 1991
Magical realism Lois Parkinson Zanora and Wendy B. ... We have
already noted, in chapter II, that much as this is literally impossible, such
a story was told about a girl in Garcia Marquezs hometown. ... The author remembers that his maternal
grandfather, Colonel Nicolas Marquez, did indeed have a great number of
illegitimate children, possibly as many as seventeen, who were fathered during
the war, and were always well-received when they visited the house. ...
One of Garcia Marquezs favorite devices for making the fantastic sound
realistic is his habit, perhaps picked up in years of newspaper reporting, of
giving precise figures for things. ...
Irony
The realistic description of impossible events is also an example, at the
level of language, of Garcia Marquezs irony. ... Garcia
Marquez employs irony on several levels. ...
Still more subtly, Garcia Marquez has reserved a final ironic twist for
us: in the last chapter, he suggests that the whole book is not what it
appears to be, but may be, like the town and the family, a creation of the
gypsy Melquiades, or perhaps (when he has a character say "Literature is the
greatest toy for fooling people") simply a hallucination.
The effect of irony is generally comic, but as we can see from these few
examples, Garcia Marquez also frequently uses it to underscore a tragedy. ...
Garcia Marquez has said that "One Hundred Years of Solitude is not a
history of Latin America, it is a metaphor for Latin America" (Dreifus
1983:1974).
Approximate Word count = 2254
Approximate Pages = 9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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