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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE MAGICAL REALISM

ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE MAGICAL REALISM.

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ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE MAGICAL REALISM

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  1. ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDEMAGICAL REALISM

  2. Colombian writer and Nobel Prize laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez receives the first copy of a commemorative edition of his most outstanding work "Cien años de Soledad" (One Hundred Years of Solitude), from the Director General of the Royal Spanish Academy, Victor Garcia de la Concha, during the opening of the IV International Congress of the Spanish Language, in Cartagena, Colombia, 26 March 2007

  3. Things to consider: • Magical realism challenges our traditional notion of time as a linear process • For magical realists time can move in a circular pattern or even fold in on itself so that earlier events collide with later ones • The point of magical realism may not be plot or character but getting the reader to think in another way about things • The greatest accomplishment of this writing is the use of the metaphors • The author looks to bridge the duality of concepts, like life and death and succeeds by writing metaphorically. • Metaphor in this sense is not a mere literary technique but the essence of expression for new concepts • Metaphorical language both describes new and special and influences the way the mind apprehends reality.

  4. Distorts time so that it is cyclical or so that it appears absent • Another technique is to collapse time in order to create a setting in which the present repeats or resembles the past • Inverts cause and effect (the character may suffer before the tragedy occurs) • Elements of legend and folklore are incorporated • Uses a mirroring of either past and present, astral and physical planes, or the characters • Presents events from multiple perspectives

  5. Elements of magical realism • Contains fantastical elements • The fantastic elements may be intuitively “logical” but they are never explained • Characters accept rather than question the logic of the magical element • Exhibits a richness of sensory details • Uses symbols and imagery extensively • Emotions and the sexuality of the human as a social construct are often developed upon in great detail

  6. The novel is divided in twenty chapters but they are not identify. • Each unit or chapter is a short story. • OHYS is the story of the history of a town, Macondo, and at the same time is the story of the Buendia family. • There are two stories: the stories occupied the same space. • We observed the beginnings of the town, its evolutions, and the decadence period.

  7. We see seven generations of the Buendia family. • Family ------------town • The novel is narrated in third person. • The novel is written in past tense all the time. • The author has created a world within the book. • The story is a full circle of life. • The story is not a summary of important events. • The author dominates the story.

  8. Garcia Marquez has created a mythical world. • The story is full of “hechos maravillosos” • They are unreal and incomprehensible, but the narrator talks about these events as if they were the most natural thing in the world. • The events are perceived as logic, common and part of a completely normal daily routine. • List of magical events?

  9. Techniques: • exaggeration • opposite • repetition

  10. Historical Evolution of Macondo • From a global point of view Macondo is a reflection about the history of a civilization • From a limited point of view, Macondo is the symbol of a history of a specific society, and more limited…. • Macondo is the story of an under developed society in Latin America • Macondo could also be the history of Colombia with the infinite fights between conservatives and liberals.

  11. During the first years the people lived and supported themselves by agriculture and the organization of the town was very primitive and patriarch. • The description of the town is centered or established by some kind of uniformity. • It is an isolated town from the rest of the world. • Is Macondo an idyllic society?

  12. First transformation of the town: • People from another town arrived to Macondo • Priest arrived to Macondo • The “Corregidor” arrived to Macondo • In a few years Macondo had the first civil war between conservatives and liberals. • Transportation and communication

  13. Second biggest transformation of Macondo: • Construction of the United Fruit • What symbols of the US can we identify in Latin America? • Members of the Buendia Family?

  14. Symbols of human civilization • Macondo • Experiment the same evolution of a human kind • Different stages • Foundation of a town (born) • Development of the town (human evolution) • Disappearance of the town (fall & death)

  15. Through the novel we find the struggles, triumphs, and tribulations of a continent that is at war with itself and struggling to find its identity . In Macondo we find the history of Latin America and in the Buendia family we find the events that have shaped our views and our life.

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