Essay - Realism Some Literary Critics and Scholars Would Recommend to Start...

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***** literary critics and scholars would recommend to start reading Kafka in order to be able to be introduced in the world of magic realism in literature. But, is the guide into th***** world whose fa*****er is actually Borges.

The concept ***** "invisible reality" or "magical realism" was b*****n in Germany in the early 20th Century and it was defined in the world of image. "Magischer Realismus" was created to describe the works of those pa*****ters who after the impressionism era returned to ***** figural instead of the abstract. The term traveled through Spain, over the Atlantic in***** Latin America ***** was contradicted by his own creator, the art critic Franz Roh. Nevertheless, it transgressed in the ***** ***** on the American Continent and it designates the capac*****y to discover in a certa***** common object extraordinary attributes, thus showing its magic. (Zamora) Jorge Luis ***** and Gabriel Garcia Marques, two Latin American writers were among those ***** embraced what it became a literary genre (http://www.seattleschools.org/schools/hamil*****n/iac/magic/magic_primer.pdf).

These writers redefined reality and found magic aspects in its most ordinary aspects. They created what is presented as imaginary worlds inside *****ir works of fiction. Beside reinventing the world, Borges reinvents a language that changes everything we now today ***** epistemology, for example. Some professor at an academy of theatre once said to his students that they *****re supposed to act as if ***** really inhabited the *****al ***** ***** author created, but they were ***** to keep their capacity to wonder a bit *****t any time, in order for their characters to be "real" ***** the public. The "magic*****" makes the eyes of those who are in it to forget about not believing and ***** looking at the world around *****m with the eye of naivety, forgetting about the blaze attitude of common knowledge. Thus, continuously challenging the reality with ***** present order, the magical realism is aimed at making a point in politics or in culture in general. It re*****s the future ***** its anticipation of concepts that ***** going to change or be completely contradicted. It also represents ***** simple things that are so common ***** they have not awoken the wish to look at them from a d*****ferent angle. It is an invitation to forget ***** prejudices, given facts, common knowledge.

Some ***** critics and scholars recommend to start ***** Kafka in order to get a firm grasp of the idea the magic realism is about.

***** major ********** in Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius is that of ideal*****m characteristic to George Berkeley. Two writers, the narrator ***** his friend, Bioy Casares discover during a conversation that ***** the latter thought to be an existing country somewhere in Iraq or Asia Minor, it was a fictional world named Uqbar. The existence of Uqbar ***** testified in a Encycoledia, which one knows it is the gather*****g of real *****, worlds, people. It turns out that the Anglo-Americ***** Cyclopedia both writers had were slightly different. The ***** in Bioy's possession ***** four