Magic Realism

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Magic Realism

Magic Realism appeared as a critical term for the arts and it later extended to
literature. The term was first used by the German critic Franz Roh in 1925 to
characterize a group of Post-Expressionist painters. Franz Roh described it as a
form in which “our real world re-emerges before our eyes, bathed in the
clarity of a new day.” It was later replaced by “New Objectivity.” Magic
Realism survived to define a narrative tendency in Latin America during 1949 to
1970. It can be defined as a preoccupation or interest in showing something
common or daily into something unreal or strange. A magic realist narrator
creates the illusion of “unreality,” faking the escape from the natural, and
tells an action that even if appears as explainable it comes across as strange.
In strange narration’s, instead of presenting something as real, the writers
reality becomes magical. The writer suggests a supernatural atmosphere without
denying the natural, and the style is distorting the reality. The intention of
the narrator is to provoke strange feeling. The explanations are not clear or
logical. There also is no innuendo or psychological analysis of the characters,
instead they are well defined almost in opposition, and never appear confused or
surprised about the supernatural. Gabrial Garcia Marques says for him it is the
supernatural and the natural peacefully co-existing and showing themselves
through magic realism. It is the encounter of strangeness and familiarity.
During colonization, Europeans found a land full of strange and supernatural
things and their records were based on their interpretations which lead to a
uncertainty of Latin America. Gabriel Garcia Marquez in the Conferencia Nobel
1982 (the year in which he was awarded the Nobel Prize): “La Soledad de
America Latina”, tells of a Florentine sailor named Antonio Pigafetta who
wrote about his expeditions around the world. This sailor described strange
creatures, which many can be found today, but his interpretation created a
supernatural rendition of Latin America in the European point of view. Overall,
Latin American culture is a combination of many other cultures that came during
colonization. Garcia Marquez, born into poverty studied law and journalism at
the National University of Colombia in Bogota, and at the University of
Cartagena. He began his career as a journalist, and demonstrated a unique
interest in cinema and dedicated much of his early career to film criticism.
Garcia Marquez bega...

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