Magic Realism
Since the 1930s, Latin American writers have used magic realism to transcend the limits of the fantastic and illuminate social problems within the culture. The author considers five modern Latin American novels. Starting with two canonical texts of magic realism, Alejo Carpentier''s El reino de este mundo (1949) and Garcia Marquez''s Cien a-os de soledad (1967), the author argues that Los Sangurim...
Since the 1930s, Latin American writers have used magic realism to transcend the limits of the fantastic and illuminate social problems within the culture. The author considers five modern Latin American novels. Starting with two canonical texts of magic realism, Alejo Carpentier''s El reino de este mundo (1949) and Garcia Marquez''s Cien a-os de soledad (1967), the author argues that Los Sangurim...
