Five of the most important Magical Realist Writers with a literary style infused with the fantastical, supernatural, and mythological.
According to published reports, magical realism authors of the Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 70s. Also to writers whose work predates the Latin American Boom yet anticipates the preoccupations and irreverent playfulness of magical realism. Here, we will look at just five key authors whose works have profoundly shaped what we understand magical realism to be and what it can achieve. I discovered to my joy, that it is life, not death, that has no limits.
Do Ihave a favorite? You betcha. Gabriel García Márquez Aka GABO. In his later novel, Love in the Time of Cholera (1985), García Márquez takes a new approach to infusing the reality he constructs with a sense of magic and wonder. Though spurned by Fermina Daza, Florentino Ariza loves her steadily over fifty-one years, nine months, and four days. Upon first falling in love with her, he is sent by his mother to the doctor, who mistakes his lovelorn state for symptoms of cholera. Here, the romantic (and rather fantastical) notion of lovesickness meets resistance when confronted with the hard science of medical opinion, and this tension sets the tone for the rest of the novel. Read it while you’re listening to the soundtrack or watch the film.
Ariza's excessively romantic attitude toward life, and his gullibility in trying to retrieve the sunken treasure of a shipwreck. It is also made evident by the fact that society in the story believes that Fermina and Juvenal Urbino are perfectly happy in their marriage, while the reality of the situation is not so ideal. Critic Keith Booker compares Ariza's position to that of Humbert Humbert in Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, saying that just as Humbert is able to charm the reader into sympathizing with his situation with his first-person account even though he is a "pervert, a rapist, and a murderer," Ariza is able to garner some reader's sympathy, even though the reader is reminded repeatedly of his more sinister exploits through the charming third-person narration.
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