I need a thesis for the topic of Magical Realism....?

Question

I am writing a research paper on magical realism. I am trying to find a good thesis, if anyone knows one please help me. Thanks.

Answer 1

When I read LABYRINTHS and ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE, I couldn't help but notice that the imagery used in the books was similar to the stories of Catholic saints that I had read as a child.

Is the story of Joan of Arc not magic realism?

How about looking at Catholic literature as the root of the works of Borges and Garcia-Marquez?

Answer 2

Magic realism (or magical realism) is an artistic genre in which magical elements appear in an otherwise realistic setting. As used today the term is broadly descriptive rather than critically rigorous. The term was initially used by German art critic Franz Roh to describe painting which demonstrated an altered reality, but was later used by Venezuelan Arturo Uslar-Pietri to describe the work of certain Latin American writers. The Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier (a friend of Uslar-Pietri) used the term "lo real maravilloso" (roughly "marvelous reality") in the prologue to his novel The Kingdom of this World (1949). Carpentier's conception was of a kind of heightened reality in which elements of the miraculous could appear while seeming natural and unforced. Carpentier's work was a key influence on the writers of the Latin American "boom" that emerged in the 1960s.