Magic Realism: Common Characteristics
As what I have mentioned in previous article, that one of my favorite literally genre/style is the Magic Realism. For today's topic, I would like to share my previous knowledge about this literally style. Hope you will get some additional learnings, and can ask questions for clarification/s.
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Magic Realism or Marvelous Realism is a literary genre that present the real-world as magical and fantasy, that the world contains "supernatural, surreal, and bizarre elements". We have here the term "surreal", which presents the surrealism, but what's the difference of this in Magic Realism is that; Surrealism focus on dreams and reality as one, while Magic Realism contains supernatural entities, not as a dream, but the reality.
The term Magic Realism was coined by Franz Roh in his painting. This style still shows what a real world is, but with the use of supernatural entities; in here horror genre exist. For you to better understand we have here;
Characteristics of Magic Realism
Rooted in Reality
From the word "realism", this Magic Realism should be real, that's mean the settings of the story must take place in a real place. If you have watched the animated series Trese, this is also an example of series with magic realism genre, then you can observed that the settings of the story took place in a real street/address. Another example, is a movie with an ordinary family transferring in another house, which is an ordinary scenario of some family, there's a conflict and some reason why they need to transfer, then here it comes a ghost exist.
Deals with Supernatural Entities
Magic Realism deals with the appearance of the paranormal or anything that is at odds with how we often perceive reality, but it is however not separated from reality. Do you believe in ghost? That's part of magic realism.
Elements of Fantasies, Magic, Metafiction
Since supernatural exists in this genre then fantasies, magic and metafiction took place. Aside from ghost, we some characters with magic, and stories about fantasies that still somewhat talks about what reality is.
Incorporates Legend and Folklore
Most of our beliefs and stories about supernaturals came from our ancestors, great-great grandparents, in which we still embrace up to these days, and the prevalence of the paranormal is sometimes linked to the prehistoric.
Inverts Cause and Effect
This is usually in written works, and since movie is more preference than book then just think about those horror movies that you have watched, you may observed that most stories start with dealing that particular entities, and at the climax or falling action of the movie you will find out the reason of it's death, cause of revenge and anger. For example in the movie "The Ring", that the white lady was once a young girl but died due to drowning in the well.
Uses Symbol and Imagery
Just like surrealism, magic realism also consist symbols in characters, objects, place and events in the story. And if you read written work, you will observed that writers use imagery to describe the scenario of the story.
That's it everyone! Just a short explanation about what Magic Realism is. I also recommend the novel Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo, if you want to read some written works made with magic realism writers such as;
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Tonni Marrison
Haruki Murakami
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July 9, 2022
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Many symbols I have seen from various magic acts and shows and my question is where did they get them from? is there a voice or scream from the spirit..