Genre: Magic Realism

Magic Realism - Definition The introduction of magical devises or magic in general within a believable realistic story, without any disruption of the logic of the story.

Origin of Magic Realism 1925: Franz Roh, German Art critic. New form of painting. New way to look at the paintings, new techniques as well, not the content of the painting per se. 1949: Alejo Carpentier, South American author: term « marvelous reality » to describe the type of fiction produced by new authors (Borges (Ficciones, 1935-1944), especially).

Possibility vs Plausibility Everything that can happen according to the laws of a universe of reference. Plausibility: within the bounds of credibility and of probability.

Magic Realism - Characters Characters of the story consider magic as some usual possibility of their world. Its occurrences might be rare or even almost forgotten, but magic is nonetheless as serious a topic in these fictions as chemistry or quantum physics in our world.

Magic Realism vs Fantasy In fantastical literature, a new universe is introduced to the reader, with its law(nathral as weell as artificial), its regularities, its objects, its people, its forces, etc. The world is completely different from ours, or has enough differences so that we (readers) need explanations to understand it correctly.

Magic Realism vs Fantasy In magic realist literature, the world depicted is ours, with one major new component: magic is a possibility (and an actuality) within it.

Magic Realism in FILM Like Water for Chocolate, Alfonso Arau (1992) Forrest Gump, Robert Zemekis (1994) The Green Mile, Frank Darabont (1999) Big Fish, Tim Burton (2003) Life of Pi, Ang Lee (2012)

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