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The magic is contained in the viewer's interpretation of those mysterious unseen or hidden parts of the image. His descriptions of humans and society in general are authentic. In the introduction of his novel El reino de este mundo ('The Kingdom of this World'), Carpentier mentioned that magical realism defines the more effective way of seeing Latin American history. amazon_color_border="A43907"; "[63] Allende was the first Latin American woman writer recognized outside the continent. The themes noted above are clearly demonstrated in the novel The
novelist and musicologist. . This is not an expression of some perceived Latin American essence, but a story-telling style that treats the supernatural in an ordinary way: to use Salman Rushdie's phrase, it involves 'the co-mingling of the improbable and the mundane'.That said, Márquez's book echoes Carpentier's in the way it passes no value judgements about the truth of the magical events described, and Márquez has stated his writing was influenced by the oral story-telling techniques of his Columbian grandmother as well as by his realisation that reality is also 'the myths of the [Latin American] people. Ti Noel uses a pile of encyclopaedia as a seat whilst chewing on sugar cane and chattering away, mainly to himself. Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980) was a Cuban
"Shouldn't our fiction reflect that? magic the status of reality. and Julio Cortazar's La noche boca arriba ('The Night Face Up')
Although boom writers claim no real literary 'fathers', Márquez has acknowledged his debt to Carpentier. Since the mid-1970s there has been a conscious and consistent relationship between Chicano and Mexican literature. coast of Colombia supplies a "view of the world that challenges the
Flemish painter Van Eyck (1395–1441) highlights the complexity of a natural landscape by creating illusions of continuous and unseen areas that recede into the background, leaving it to the viewer's imagination to fill in those gaps in the image: for instance, in a rolling landscape with river and hills. Magical realism has its preferential domain in novels and short stories. amazon_ad_title="Apex Publications"; Magical Realism is a literary genre that incorporates fantastic or mythical elements into otherwise realistic fiction. future and in some way involve the stars" (Martin 3). There are certainly differences in aesthetics between European and Hispanic magic realists, but they are both equally magic realists. One could relate this exterior magic all the way back to the 15th century.