Gabriel García Márquez & Magical Realism
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REALISM
DEGREE:
EIGHTH
TEACHING:
Angie Meliza Palechor
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
22-04-2023
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INTRODUCTION
Magical realism is a literary movement from the mid-twentieth century and
is defined as a stylistic concern and interest in showing the unreal or
strange as something everyday and common, its purpose is to express
emotions with an attitude towards reality.
AIM:
Know the most important characteristics of the literary movement
called magical realism.
I know the main exponent of magical realism, Gabriel García Márquez.
Basic standard of competence
I appreciate the Colombian and Latin American literary legacy through
reading fiction and non-fiction texts, poetry, essays and journalistic works.
What am I going to learn? (prior knowledge)
1. What stories or everyday experiences do you know or have lived that
demonstrate exaggeration, the strange, the magical, or the
supernatural?
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2. Do you know who Gabriel García Márquez is?
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3. What books do you know of him?
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What I am learning (moment of practical structuring)
Literary movement: Magical Realism
Magical realism is a literary movement from the mid-20th century that is
characterized by the narration of unusual, fantastic and irrational events in
a realistic context, although it reached its peak between 1960 and 1970,
when it coincided with the Latin American boom generation.
Magical realism is a type of narrative in which the strange and peculiar are
presented as something everyday. Or, rather, it is a narrative based on the
observation of reality, where singularities, peculiarities and strangeness have a
place.
This reality is possible in one context: Latin America, in whose society symbolic
thought and modernizing technical thought communicate, confront and
mutually feed each other, the result of a vertiginous history marked by cultural
juxtaposition, crossbreeding and patent heterogeneity.
Important characteristics of Magical Realism
Part of the observation of reality.
It incorporates the universe of symbolic values of Latin American cultures,
which it recognizes as part of that reality without appealing to a vertical view.
Normalizes peculiarities instead of replacing reality with a fantastical or
alternate world.
The narrator offers no explanations for the unusual events.
The characters do not show surprise at the unusual phenomena.
It values the sensory perception of reality.
It breaks the temporal linearity of the story.
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It tends to widely develop Meta fiction.
Exponents of magical realism
There have been many artists who have used this style to express emotions
through the written word, however it is essential to name as the greatest
exponents the Venezuelan Arturo Uslar Pietri who is reputed to be the
undisputed father of this literary avant-garde who gave life to Magical
Realism with his novel Las lanzars coloradas published in (1931), who would
follow 36 years later with his novel Cien años de soledad would be the
Colombian Gabriel García Márquez, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Other notable authors include: Miguel Angel Asturias, Laura Esquivel, Isabel
Allende, Jose Luis Borges, Mario Vargas Llosa, Juan Rulfo.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Aracataca, Colombia, March 6,
1927-Mexico City, April 17, 2014
Colombian writer and journalist
Known as Gabo, winner of the
Nobel Prize for literature. His
novel One Hundred Years of
Solitude is considered the
ultimate reference of magical
realism. He also wrote key titles
such as Chronicle of a Death
Foretold, No One Writes to the
Colonel and Love in the Time of
Cholera.
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Gabriel García Márquez became the greatest exponent of a literary style
known as magical realism. Praised and criticized for his political ideas,
Gabo, as he was familiarly known, won international applause for his work
and in 1982 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Magical realism in Gabriel García Márquez
García Márquez's Macondo is a reference point for magical realism, the
literary movement that emerged in the middle of the last century in
Latin America and is characterized by including fantastic elements in a
story that is initially real, with such coherence and in such an
environment that the reader does not even question the facts.
Gabriel García Márquez perfectly integrates traditional ways of telling
stories with the most complex narrative techniques: time jumps,
multiple perspectives, interior monologue, fictional narrators.
His novels reflect and denounce real situations in contemporary Latin
America, such as dictatorships, repression and massacres.
Time, memory, loneliness, love, passion and violence are some of the
recurring themes in his stories and novels.
Books by Gabriel García Márquez that emphasize magical realism
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Love in the time of cholera
The Autumn of the Patriarch
I practice what I learned. (practice)
Mark the correct answer.
1. Magical realism is:
a. A religion that forces you to believe in poems.
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b. A literary movement that is defined as a stylistic concern and
interest in showing the unreal or strange as something everyday
and common.
c. A historical context that represents the Middle Ages to work with
symbols.
2. Which of the following statements are characteristics of magical
realism?
a. Time jumps in the plot
b. It is a meaningless poem, taking refuge in elaborate words to
embellish the narrative.
c. Musical language: all poetry evokes music, musicality takes
precedence over the literality of language. (lyric)
3. Who was Gabriel García Márquez?
a. Actor
b. Doctor
c. Writer and journalist
4. What is a characteristic of magical realism in Gabriel García Márquez?
a. Time, memory, loneliness, love, passion and violence are some of
the recurring themes in his stories and novels.
b. For writing poetry filled with sinister beauty that offered a darker,
more devastating literature.
c. Because his poetry was with words full of beauty.
5. Write a piece about a childhood anecdote that shows magical realism.
6. Make an analysis of magical realism in Gabriel García Márquez.
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How do I know I learned? (assessment)
1. Write two important characteristics of magical realism that most
caught your attention.
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2. Read a short story by Gabriel García Márquez and point out fragments
where magical realism is represented.
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