2006-12-06 00:10:41 · 4 answers · asked by nat 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
It has to do with how an author deals with magic and the supernatural in a work. Magical Realists write about these things as if they are completely ordinary occurrances, and the characters react to them the same way.
For example, Harry Potter is not magical realism, because characters understand magic as something apart from everyday reality - at least for some characters (Muggles). In works by Garcia Marquez, though, extraordinary things happen, and no one seems to notice that they are physically impossible.
2006-12-06 00:32:28 · answer #1 · answered by tundra 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Magic Realism is a literary style that represents things in a realistic way as an absolute, but with some parts of the story that can not be understood.
The best example is Gabriel García Márquez.
This has also been used for paintings. Cauduro is a painter who is said to paint in this Magic Realism .
2006-12-06 01:09:58 · answer #2 · answered by sofista 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Just wanted to add that an excellent book that employs magic realism is Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits.
2006-12-06 01:25:39 · answer #3 · answered by RaineeRose 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Another good example of Magic Realism at work is Salman Rushdie's Haroon and the Sea of Stories.
2006-12-06 01:55:42 · answer #4 · answered by JoKnowsThisOne 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋