Magic Realism and Intertextual Examples of The Bible in Gabriel Garcia

Gabriel Garcia Marquezs smart, One Hundred Years of Solitude, is a figment often associated with magic realism. Throughout the novel, the idea of magic realism is promoted through intertext examples of The Bible. Magic realism is delineate as an artistic style in which magical elements or irrational scenarios appear in an otherwise real or normal setting. The legion(predicate) intertextual examples throughout the work are alluded from impertinent sources such as the Bible and the tragedians of the Greeks and Romans. These allusions not only strengthen the novel, besides further correlate them with the idea of magic realism. Magic realism, as defined by Wendy Faris, contains five differentiate elements which must be present for this portion to ring true in a piece of literature. The first key element is the novel contains something we cannot explain according to the laws of the universe as we hunch over them (Faris 167). Throughout the novel, several examples which make thi s constituent true are present. For example, when Jose Arcadia Buendias murder occurs and his agate line runs through the streets to Ursulas home, Marquez writes, A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a straight line across the uneven terraces, went down feather steps and climbed up curbs (Marquez 144). In reality, as readers, it is known that blood cannot travelling long distances or climb objects. Remedios the Beautys accession to enlightenment is another form in which a particular scene cannot be explained by particular laws as we know them. Marquez writes Amaranta felt a dismal trembling in the lace on her petticoats and she tried to grasp the yellow journalism so that she would not fall down at the instant 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 indeed a tale of enchanting pragmatism. T he novels intertextual examples developed by eccentric 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 oblivious to the concomitant that they truly exist. Magic realism will continue to flourish many novels to come in the coming years. Works CitedAccess Bible, The. New York Oxford University Press, 2010. Fitzgerald, Robert. voice Homer. The Iliad. Garden City, NY Anchor Press, 2007. Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. One Hundred Years of Solitude. New York harper Perennial, 1998. Zamora, Louis Parkinson and Wendy Faris. Magical Realism Theory,History,Community. Durham Duke University Press, 1995.