Magical Realism in Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Magical Realism Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a fictional Nobel Prize winning writer from the harsh areas of Colombia, South America. ... This is associated with the term “magical realism”. Although “magical” and “realism” contradict, they are used to refer to unusual situations placed into usual surroundings without any sort of conspiracy or irony. Among his works, Chronicle of a Death Foretold and “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” can be strongly compared with Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s use of magical realism. Chronicle of a Death Foretold contains magical realism by Marquez’s excessive use of irony. ... This ironic event and other events that could have prevented this poor man’s death seem to phase the reader with the realization that situations such as these do not happen daily.