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Examine the Function of Magic in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'.
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Examine the Function of Magic in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'. Jennifer Langley Adrian Pearce Marquez's novel 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' has been cited as a history of Colombia, a history of human behaviour and a family saga revolving around the Buendia family, beginning with Jose Arcadio Buendia an Ursula, two of the founders of Macondo, a fictional town in Colombia. The story follows the lives of the members of the family and their fall, resulting in Aureliano Babilonia watching his child, the last of the Buendias, getting eaten by ants as Melquiades had predicted. The story has various themes such as the merging of the past with the present and future, the importance of reading and language1, and reality, which is merged with the fantastic, creating 'magical realism'. This phrase was coined in 1925 by a German critic called Franz Roh who described the book as "a...
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