magic realism
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
magic realism primarily Latin American literary movement that arose in the 1960s. The term has been attributed to the Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier , who first applied it to Latin-American fiction in 1949. Works of magic realism mingle realistic portrayals of ordinary events and characters with elements of fantasy and myth, creating a rich, frequently disquieting world that is at once familiar and dreamlike. The movement's best-known proponent is the Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez , who has used the technique many times, most famously in his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967). Other magic realist writers include Guatemala's Miguel Ángel Asturias , Argentina's Julio Cortázar , and Mexico's Carlos Fuentes . Non-Latin American writers whose fiction often employs magic realism include Italo Calvino and Salman Rushdie .
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