Marquez wonders “There had never been a death so foretold” (Marquez). There is also a lot of foreshadowing or signs after the death of the main character it is quite bizarrely why they are so obvious after the incident was happened. The Chronicle of a Death Foretold makes oblique references to God and clairvoyance. The superstitions of the different characters are the principle details serving to understand the nature of Marquez’s Magical Realism. ”Magic Realism" is a reality in which elements of the real and the fantastic, domestic and mythical, real and mental, mysterious are combined organically.
A year after the release of Chronicle of a Death Foretold Marquez won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novels and short stories, in which fantasy and reality are combined, reflecting the life and conflicts of the continent. The author tells the story of the murder, perceived differently by different unreliable witnesses. The novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold («Cronica de una muerte anunciada») was created in 1981 it was totally innovative in form. As well as many others creators of Magic Realism, Marques accepted bizarre events that could not have possibly happened in the reality without any possible amounts of shock. The use of this literary technique affects the narrative in the opinion and the distinctive style of the narrator toward the matter at hand. The key principles of Magical Realism are presented in many Marquez’s novels but especially in one of the most famous one - Chronicle of a Death Foretold. There was even a specific term "Caribbean miracle" in the literature. In 1950 - 60's, Latin American literature experienced a real mental explosion. The most famous authors of magical realism are Alessandro Barikko, Amos Oz, Ben Okri, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Goran Petrovic, Gunter Grass, Jonathan Carroll, Davis Robertson, Jose Saramago, Jorge Amado, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Italo Calvino, Carlos Castaneda, Carlos Fuentes, Laura Esquivel, Leo Perutz, Louis de Berner, Gustav Meyrink, Miguel Angel Asturias, Milan Kundera, Milorad Pavic, Mikhail Bulgakov, Ernesto Sabato, Edward Whitmore, and many others. open ending allows the reader to determine for himself what structure of the world was more truthful and relevant. past time contrast to present, the astral to the physical, the characters are compared with each other events are presented from alternative points of view reversed cause and effect for example, a character may suffer before the tragic events One more trick that was used by authors of Magic Realism is the collapse of the time when the present time repeats or resembles the past warped time sometimes it is cyclical or even missed. emotions of a human as a social being are often described in substantial details symbols and images are frequently used numerous details of sensory perception the characters accept the logic of the magical elements in daily life
fantastic elements may be internally consistent, but never explained The following elements can be intrinsic to magical realism: This paper seeks to answer to what extent the key principles of Magic Realism are used in Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold. History of the term reflects the essential feature of Latin American culture - the borrowing of models and categories from western literature and adapting them to express own identity.įirmly entered the scientific use of the literary studies, in the first half of the XX century, the term is still a matter of many debates and discussions. Sometimes it is treated in an ontological way as an intrinsic constant of the Latin American creative thinking. In a narrow sense, it is considered as a trend in Latin American literature of the twentieth century. The term "magic realism" exists in Latin American criticism and cultural studies at different semantic levels.
Magic realism is also a literary movement that has an exceptionally concrete and visible history through time, as well as quite clearly traceable roots and pronounced ideology (basic concepts), narrative structure and discourse features, which makes the works of magical realism convenient object for a linguistic research. The aim of magic realism is to find in the reality something that is strange, lyrical and even fantastic: the elements that make daily life accessible for poetic, surreal and even symbolic transfigurations. Magic realism is an artistic method in which magical elements are included in a realistic world view.
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