Magical Realism as a Narrative Technique in One Hundred Years of Solitude

Abstract

As a literary genre magic realism signifies the technique of exploring actuality in a magical, fictional and indigenous cultures paranormal variant. This paper reflects on magic realism as a significant tool in relation to One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez in the role of marvelous stylistic structure adopted by Marquez to portray his political history, social order and culture. Truth accompanied by mythical facets, the same work adopts as a theoretical framework magic realism to reflect how Marquez orchestrates the same tool to show the real face of colonialism, his cultural heritage and neocolonial era. Through the arsenal of magical realist technique, Marquez writes about death, sufferings, war and loss in his homeland. The aim is to mix magical so as to portray his country, where modern inventions and myth remains the part and parcel of the same background, indigenous culture and modern technology exists hand in hand. The author also aims at to expose his people to the reality rather than to merely depend on West imitation. Literature review serves as data main source in order to discover the gap. The main objective is to authenticate that how magic realism as a literary mode has been utilized in One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez to adhere to nation’s heritage.

Keywords: Myth, Reality, Magic, Realism, National History, Culture