Hundred Years Of Solitude: The Reality Characterization Under The Guise Of Magic And Imagination

Magic realism, as one of the literature schools, is formed and developed in modern Latin America. Its characteristics are that reality is described in detail and objectively in a magical environment and atmosphere. That is, to put a bizarre and magical cloak on the reality, but never damage the nature of reality. These works, with novel and grotesque art style, has drawn a wide attention of international literary world, and won the world reputation for the Latin American literature.The novel of the famous writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez from Colombia One Hundred Years of Solitude is the peak of the Latin American magic realism, for it reflected the characteristic of magic realism: change reality into fantasy and not lose the nature of reality. By shaping extraordinary characters, describing the bizarre plot, using colorful methods, the novel integrated the reality and non-reality into one, reflected the most incredible miracle and the simple life in Colombia and even the Latin American region and made people obtain a sense of an extreme and absurd reality.The paper takes One Hundred Years of Solitude as an example, starts with magic reality, and looks for the scientific basis of the magic characterization. The use of imagination put the bizarre cloak on the works, but it is not difficult to find the scientific reality under the guise of magic cloak is imagination. Three chapters elaborate the use of magic and imagination in One Hundred Years of Solitude. The first chapter, mainly from the real soil of magic realism, magic realism and its main writer and his works on magic and imagination, elaborates the use of magic and imagination. The second chapter takes One Hundred Years of Solitude as an example, and describes the magic and imagination from the external environment, characters and means of artistic creation. Chapter three, following Gabriel Garcia Marquez's writing principle-change reality into fantasy and not lose the nature of reality, concludes imagination is the scientific reality under the guise of magical cloak.