The naturalness or normality of certain phenomena, which is not the same as replacing reality with a fantastic world.The narration of fantastic and irrational events in a realistic context, which the narrator and the characters perceive naturally.In general, magical realism is characterized by: In magical realism he had influences from psychoanalysis and surrealism.

Some of its exponents are Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel, Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar. The movement arose in a social context characterized by civil wars , great social differences and the search for independence, and it turned out to be a way of creating beauty and magic in the midst of widespread unease. The rise of the movement lasted even during the period of the Latin American boom between 19. Magical realism is defined by telling real events but also including wonderful or unreal issues that the characters perceive in a natural and everyday way. The main characteristic of magical realism is the alteration of reality with fantastic actions , which are narrated in a realistic way, assuming the acceptance of these facts as real and true, both for the protagonists and for the reader. It narrates the unreal as something everyday and that particularity differentiates it from the fantastic genre in which the story itself breaks with known reality. Magical realism is an artistic and literary movement that originated in Germany in 1925 . The term was introduced in literature from Latin America by Venezuelan writer Arturo Uslar Pietri. In 1949, the Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier formally adopted the concept of “the marvelous reality” through his novel De él The kingdom of this world. Who are its main representatives and more. Shaw, Stefan Sperl, Philip Swanson, Jason Wilson.We explain what magical realism was and what its characteristics are. Ratner, Kenneth Reeds, Alejandra Rengifo, Lorna Robinson, Sarah Sceats, Donald L.

Hart, David Henn, Stephanie Jones, Julia King, Efraín Kristal, Mark Morris, Humberto Núñez-Faraco, Wen-Chin Ouyang, Lois Parkinson Zamora, Helene Price, Tsila A. Erickson, Robin Fiddian, Evelyn Fishburn, Stephen M. CONTRIBUTORS: Jonathan Allison, Michael Berkowitz, John D. Wen-chin Ouyang lectures in Arabic Literature and Comparative Literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Stephen Hart is Professor of Hispanic Studies, University College London and Doctor Honoris Causa of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru. The companion also has a Guide to Further Reading.

Written in a jargon-free style, and with all quotations translated into English, this book offers a refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of colonial dispossession. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, José Saramago, Dorit Rabinyan, Ovid, María Luisa Bombal, Ibrahim al-Kawni, Mayra Montero, Nakagami Kenji, José Eustasio Rivera and Elias Khoury, discussed for the first time in the context of magical realism. It provides a set of up-to-date assessments of the work of writers traditionally associated with magical realism such as Gabriel García Márquez (in particular his recently published memoirs), Alejo Carpentier, Miguel ngel Asturias, Juan Rulfo, Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel and Salman Rushdie, as well as bringing into the fold new authors such as W.B. The Companion to Magical Realism provides an assessment of the world-wide impact of a movement which was incubated in Germany, flourished in Latin America and then spread to the rest of the world.