![]() ![]() Marquez was not the first to use this style even in Latin America, authors like the Argentine Jorge Luis Borges and the Cuban Alejo Carpentier came before him. Several books can be, and have been, written about the wealth of imagery, styles, and messages in Marquez’s use of magic realism. Roh had been talking about visual arts, and the term has somewhat mutated in meaning from the way he used it to the sense it is used today in literature. The term ‘magical realism’ was first coined by Franz Roh, the German historian, and art critic, in his 1925 book Nach-Expressionismus: Magischer Realismus: Probleme der neuesten europäischen Malerei (Post-expressionism: Magical Realism: Problems of the newest European painting). It creates for itself a space between the real and the fantastical. Magic realism, thus, is different from fantasy, where the world is entirely imagined by the author. Magic realism, by adding ‘magic’, makes this warts-and-all life soar above the ordinary, giving it power and vigour instead of glamour. Realists decided they would show life as it was, not idealised and beautified. ‘Realism’ was a technique developed as a reaction to art presenting a glorified version of life. Put very simply, magic realism is when fantastical, supernatural elements are blended in an otherwise straightforward and factual story. ![]()
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