Magical Realism

Magical Realism

“Like Water For Chocolate”
by
Laura Esquivel

“A very Old Man with Enormous Wings”
by
Gabriel Garcia Marquez


Magical Realism, is chiefly style or genre originating in Latin America that combines fantastic or dreamlike elements of realism. The term was first applied in the 1920 to a school of painters, and is used to describe the prose fiction of originally Luis Borges, as well as writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Laura Esquivel. Both writers Marquez and Esquivel interweave, in an ever-shifting pattern, a sharply etched realism in representing ordinary events and descriptive details together with fantastic and dreamlike elements. Both writes use this technique to both tell a story and truly express feelings, like love. Magical Realism allows a writer to step beyond the boundaries of realism to express a feeling, without stepping completely over to fiction. Lets look at few pieces of literature that uses Magical Realism, first ...