Magical Realism and Deleuze

Since the success of Gabriel García Márquez''s 1967 novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, and the following Latin American literary ''boom'' of the late sixties and seventies, magical realism has had a steady following, an international influence and become established as a literary genre. Yet its definition has remained vague.

Through the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, this study rethinks magic...