Essay - Gabriel Garcia Marquez and His Works are Inextricably Linked to...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez and his works are inextricably linked to a style of literature known as magical realism, which is a type that is usually characterized by elements of the fant*****tic woven into ***** story with a serious presentation (Ruch).

Marquez, a Nobel Prize winner, is the creator of the magical-realist town of Macondo which appears in "One Hundred Years of Solitude" ***** other ***** (Fuguet).

Magical ***** attempts to seize the paradox of ***** union ***** opposites, and is based on a rati*****al view of reality and the acceptance of the supernatural as prosaic reality (Moore). It differs from pure fantasy mainly due ***** ***** fact that it ***** set in a normal, modern world ***** authentic depictions of people and society (Moore).

Magical realism is an "amalgamation ***** realism ***** *****," and offers a view ***** is not based on the natural or physical laws or objective ***** (Mo*****e). Perhaps no other author captures the essence of magical realism as Gabriel ***** Marquez, who is known ***** the founding fa*****r of the cult of ***** realism (*****).

In his 1955 book, "Leaf Storm," Marquez set a new direction to Colombi*****n ***** by experimenting with linear time (Cohn). He suspended ***** forward movement ***** time through the experiences of the individual characters ***** of the town itself (Cohn). His use of ***** reduplicates at the level ***** form ***** historical and social situations in a town where the flow of time is no longer signific*****nt (Cohn). Marquez carries out his distortion of linear historical ***** through the interior monologues that record ***** narrators' thoughts, ***** through the composite effect of the many monologues (Cohn). The extent of the ***** frames ***** social and historical reference differs greatly, and is delimited by their reactions to the first chronological indicator, for example ***** sound of the train's horn marks 2:30 (Cohn). Isabel's young son, remembers only the most recent past, thus thinks of h***** friends at the schoolyard and their daily rituals, while Isabel, whose scope includes her personal ***** family history and the town's social codes, is only able to identify events as having taken place be*****e or after one a*****her (*****). Furtherm*****e, through this reference ***** the past, the character ***** ***** broadest historical perspective paradoxically exp*****s the narrative's temporal scope to condense even more time into that single instant (Cohn).

In "Of Love and Other Demons" there is a strong continuity between this novel ***** *****s within the vague compass of the Magical Realism genre (Handelman).

From ***** beginning, the issue of relationship ***** the author, narrator, and the reader is brought to the foreground (Handelman). ***** includes a note describing what he believes to be an actual event that is responsible for the inspiration of the *****, implying that the novel is based on an episode ***** he witnessed (H*****delman).

*****, even this first episode is one that many *****s would have difficulty believing (Handelman). From ***** foundation of an unbelievable episode, the hair ***** a corpse