Magic Realism
In the short stories, "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings," "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" and "Death Constant Beyond Love", the author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez features the literary writing style known as magic realism in his writing. He also incorporates a Latin American theme to his stories. Marquez reflects both magic realism and Latin American themes by exploring both the natural and supernatural worlds and exemplifying traces of Latin American culture.In "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings", many elements of magic realism are apparent. A good specimen is the old man with wings himself. An old man is normal and earthly. However, when wings are applied, what was once mundane becomes stereotype of magic realism. Magic realism serves to lure the reader into the climax in this story. There is a strange atmosphere and everything is exaggerated. "The rain would have killed so many crabs that Pelayo had to carry them to the sea... it was an old man... impeded by his enormous wings." (Page 42) Magic realism catches the reader's attention by the mentioning of the wings. "The angel was the only one who took no part in his own act. He spent his time trying to get comfortable in his borrowed nest, befuddled by the hellish hea
He uses magic realism in a both obvious and non-obvious way. The Latin American names define the surroundings and setting of the story better. Latin American culture is represented in many ways throughout the story. " (Page 468) The use of the magic realism is obvious because there is no way one can fly a butterfly and have it be stuck to a wall. The drowned man has an extremely abnormally large body. "Death Constant Beyond Love" is different from the other stories because only a small amount of magic realism is used and in a not so obvious way. A corpse is not usually described as beautiful or handsome. Magic realism is also used in "Death Constant Beyond Love". The village acquires an obsession with this fantasy and even gives him a name and calls their village, Esteban's village. Marquez engages the reader in the story by using magic realism and brings the reader to a climax. Instead, Marquez uses actual realism to engage the reader and take them to the climax. " (Page 44) This climax is quickly defeated because of the reaction of the common people to the mysterious old man. The description of the village in the beginning and the Latin American names set an appropriate atmosphere for the story.
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