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Do You Believe in Magic?
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Do You Believe in Magic?
Elements of Magical Realism:
The Man with Enormous Wings
Transformation of the common and the everyday into the awesome and the unreal.
Examples: An angel is found in a mud puddle of the courtyard. The angel’s wings have parasites.
An Introduction to Magical Realism
Allegory
a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
https://www.papermasters.com/allegory-literary-term.html
The Wizard of Oz is an allegory:
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/heres-real-forgotten-meaning-wizard-040000330.html
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
His grandfather was a general, a hero and a great story teller.
His grandmother was very superstitious. She filled the house with stories of ghosts and premonitions.
Elements of Magical Realism:
The Man with Enormous Wings
The frame or surface of the work may be conventionally realistic.
Example: Townspeople, village, flood, chicken coop.
Have a strong narrative drive.
Example: At the beginning, the man with wings is a shock to the town. In the middle... at the end...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Elements of dreams, fairy story, or mythology combine with the everyday.
Examples: Some townspeople thought the angel should be named mayor of the world or at least a 5-star general. A man couldn’t sleep because the noise of the stars disturbed him.
He lived in Aracataca, Colombia, a banana town by the Caribbean.
His grandparents were his most important relatives, and influenced him and his writing later on.
Elements of Magical Realism
The frame or surface of the work may be conventionally realistic.
Have a strong narrative drive (beginning, middle, end).
Elements of Magical Realism
Magical Realism, Authors
Transformation of the common and the everyday into the awesome and the unreal.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Columbia, 1928 -2014
Jorge Luis Borges – Argentina, 1899-1986
Guenter Grass – Germany, 1927-2015
Elements of Magical Realism
Elements of dreams, fairy story, or mythology combine with the everyday.