Elements Of Magic Realism: A Reading Of Garcia Marquezs’ One Hundred Years Of Solitude And Salman Rushdies’ Midnight’s Children

Abstract

Abstract

“Magic Realism” (el realismo magical) was a term first coined in 1949 by the Cuba novelist Alejo Carpentier to describe the matter-of-fact combination of the fantastic and every day in Latin American fiction. Later exemplified by novels like Gunter Grass’s The Tin Drum (1959) and Maruez’s one hundred years of solitude and also applied to paintings by famous painter Micheal Parks - world foremost artist in the realm of imaginary realism and Rob Gonsalves a Canadian Painter often categorized as surrealistic but injects a sense of magic into realistic scenes. This paper studies importance of the Magic Realism as a Popular Literary Construct in select novels and how the two writers incorporated elements of Magic Realism to reflect their society and culture towards universal appeal. The implicit manner of presentation with reference to the happenings of society or nation or world not only belongs to the responsibility of people of that region, but also of universality