Abstract
This tentative study suggests Isabel Allende “Ines of my soul” and Gabriel Garcia Marquez “Love in the Time of Cholera” from magic realism point of view. Magic Realism is a Latin American literary movement which attempts to depict the reality in human’s mind. This literary movement is originated in the Latin American’s fiction in the middle of twentieth century. Isabel Allende, who is famous because in the most of her novels the magic realism is used, depicts the life of Ines Suarez, without whom the settlement of Chile could not be achieved, in the historical novel “Ines of my soul”.The father of magic realist writers, Gabriel Garcia Marquez in “Love in the time of cholera”, depicts the inside and outside worlds of man in this world, with the using of magic realism, he wants to show these opposites clearly.In this study, firstly, a model of analysis will be assumed by the features of magic realism. Next, Allende’s and Marquez’s novels will be read and analyzed within the magic realism pattern, the magic realism’s features will be traced in the novel. Finally, possible implications of both the model and the findings of the research for literary criticism and teaching novels of this kind will be discussed.
Highlights
This research examines establishing a pattern for literary analysis by some features of magic realism and tries to show Isabel Allende’s “Ines of my soul” and Marquez’s “Love in the time of Cholera” within this framework.The term magic realism was used for the first time by literary critic Franz Roh in Germany
The essay was converted into Spanish, this literary movement understood by South American authors and critics in 1940s (Roh, 1968)
The country borrowed its name from the other countries or the world of imagination. It such an actual country and it begins the fantasy one (Galnes, 2002). Tragedy is another feature of magic realism which consists of two components; Death and Fate, in which borrowed in the magic realist fiction as follows: The stories are subjected to fate, the heroes are always characterized by their deeds, author utilizes irony to emphasize death’s value, the ending is sometimes catastrophic
Summary
This research examines establishing a pattern for literary analysis by some features of magic realism and tries to show Isabel Allende’s “Ines of my soul” and Marquez’s “Love in the time of Cholera” within this framework. The famous author of Latin America, Isabel Allende is well-known writer because of using magic realism in her works. Because of the influences that Allende and Marquez have got on other Latin American writers and even some American Writers, their works are worthwhile to be seen and analysed within the framework of magic realism As such, this present research attempts to read “Ines of my soul” and “Love in the time of Cholera” with this guideline from a comparative perspective (main, 2009). The aim is discover the extent to which these writers have used features of magic realism in their novels
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