| In the 1960s, a new kind of school of literature appeared in Latin Amarica, that is magical realism. It has been attracting all the people's eyes by its special regional features, and becoming one of the most important phenomenon in literature in the modern world. Also in China, There are many literature enthusiast who are involved in magical realism and One Hundred Years of Solitude written by Gabriel Garcia Marquaz. Why didn't produce so influencial school of literature and so well-known works in the other areas of the world, such as in China, until now. This is worth considering.On this basis, through analyzing and comparing the reasons why magical realism formed, the auther confirmed that it was the product connecting the old cultural tradition with the miraculous reality under the effect of surrealism in Europe. The Latin American writers showed the ideas of Indians toward the surrounding world and the special ways that they treated the world. We can say that mogical realism is just like a fragrant guava ,it bears so many fruits because it is planted in the proper land with suitable weather and ecological environment.The essay was divided into three parts. In the first chapter the author revealed the cultural and historical reasons to form mogical realism as a result of textual research of the old mythology and legend of Indian. The Indians were the oldest citizens who lived on the American continent. They created three well-known cultures in the ancient America. These showed not only they were the art model which could hardly be surmounted, but also they were the ways that the ancient Indians knew the world, conquered the world and thought of their own exist. Today these old mythology and legend were treated as a kind of cultural heritage that could not be replaced. Their pure and specific features provided the Latin writers endless materials and magical colors in their novels. The word "magical realism" first appeared in Europe, concretely in Germany, later entered into Spain. But it didn't develop into a kind of school of literature or art in Europe, until in 1848 when it entered South America, combined with the magical novels in it. The phenomenon forced us to research the positive connection between the school and the local culture. So in the second chapter it was proved that the foundation of forming mogical realism was the special sense of practice and art in the culture of Latin America. At first you could see an unbelievable picture of Latin America. Then the author analyzed the literatural tradition in Latin America. Since the colonialist intruded into it, the Indian works had been all destroyed. The difficulty was how to recreate the national style, and not how to carry forward. The magical realism writers learned a lot from "Land Novels" and "Native Indian Literature". At last we could get the necessity of forming mogical realism from the analysis of the national consciousness of Latin Americans. The main idea of magical realism was to reflect the true life. So many magical realism novels such as One Hundred Years of Solitude reflected the various national characters of Latin America formed in the course of developing and changing. The reasons of solitude and poverty were just the invasion of imperialism. In order to resist it the writers fought with their pens instead of weapon, called the Latin Americans to unite together. In the third chapter the author introduced that mogical realism also used the experience of western countries' literature for reference, especially drawing inspiration from surrealism. Surrealism came into being in Europe in the early period of 20th century. Because a lot of Latin American writers came there at that time including some famous magical realism writers . They absorbed the writing theory and skills, on the other hand, they changed it and made it much better. At last they achieved a lot.My favourite writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez said, " In all, our writers in Latin America and Caribbean areas must admit reverently that realit... |
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