MAGICAL REALISM
22/02/2024
Dr. DUONG NGOC DUNG (2021) Deputy Head of Faculty of Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy Program Director Appearing in the 1920s in Germany, magical realism originated in painting, entered literature, and replaced philosophy by questioning the nature of reality. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien años de soledad, written in Spanish, first published 1967), by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Columbia writer, as well as Fiction (Ficciones, Spanish, first published 1944) by Jose Luis Borges (Argentine writer), are two typical works of this genre. The strange thing is that the first term “magical realism” appeared, not in Spanish as many people think, but in German (magischer Realismus), it was...