Magic Realism and Intertextual Examples of The Bible in Gabriel Garcia

Gabriel Garcia Marquezs novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, is a novel often associated with magic naturalism. Throughout the novel, the idea of magic realism is promoted through intertext examples of The Bible. Magic realism is defined as an artistic modality in which magical elements or irrational scenarios appear in an differently realistic or normal setting. The many intertextual examples end-to-end the work ar alluded from outside sources such as the Bible and the tragedians of the Greeks and Romans. These allusions not only alter the novel, but further correlate them with the idea of magic realism. Magic realism, as defined by Wendy Faris, contains five key elements which must be lay for this component to ring true in a piece of literature. The first off key element is the novel contains something we cannot explain according to the laws of the universe as we know them (Faris 167). Throughout the novel, several examples which make this constituent true atomic number 1 8 present. For example, when Jose Arcadia Buendias murder occurs and his credit line runs through the streets to Ursulas home, Marquez writes, A slaver of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, act on in a straight line across the abrasive terraces, went down steps and climbed up curbs (Marquez 144). In reality, as readers, it is known that blood cannot travel long distances or climb objects. Remedios the Beautys summation to Heaven is another form in which a particular shot cannot be explained by particular laws as we know them. Marquez writes Amaranta felt a mysterious trembling in the lace on her petticoats and she tried to batch the sheet so that she would not fall down at the exigent in which Remedios the Beauty... ...magic realism is a common theme found throughout many fiction novels. According to Faris five key elements, this novel is and so a tale of enchanting pragmatism. The novels intertextual examples developed by cha racter similarities and actual events from the Bible and Greek mythology and tragedies are woven in the novel in such a way that the reader is unaware to the fact that they truly exist. Magic realism will continue to ostentation many novels to come in the coming years. Works CitedAccess Bible, The. brisk York Oxford University Press, 2010. Fitzgerald, Robert. Translator Homer. The Iliad. Garden City, NY Anchor Press, 2007. Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude. bare-ass York Harper Perennial, 1998. Zamora, Louis Parkinson and Wendy Faris. Magical Realism Theory,History,Community. Durham Duke University Press, 1995.