International Research Journal of Education and Technology

Magical realism has become a popular genre of Latin America and also an international literary mode of the writings of postcolonial. As a narrative mode Magical Realism is alluring because of many reasons, such as it is oxymoron and its contradiction is completely baffling. Through Magical realism the Nobel Prize awarded Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez has succeeded in presenting the real, social and political life in Latin America in his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude. In a major part of Garcia’s novel the presence of magical realism can be found through the plot, characters, themes and the style, which contributes to the improvement of the literary movement in this area. By using magical realism, Garcia’s novel deals with suffering, war and death in the mid-1960 of Colombia. In this novel, Marquez incorporates many supernatural motifs which presents the aspects of magical realism. This paper is an attempt to conduct an empirical analysis to examine the extent to which Magical Realism has been incorporated in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, and the range of depicting the real, social and political life in Latin America.

Keywords: Magical Realism, postcolonial, oxymoron, hybridity, reticence, supernatural, empirical.