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The German who discovered magical realism
Who is Franz Roh
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He won the Nobel Prize for literature.
What did Gabriel Garcia Marquez win in 1982?
100
To make readers more aware of realism and realistic texts.
What is a focus/ concern of magical realism?
100
Phosphorescent bird
What is an example of a magical detail in Chronicle of a Death Foretold?
200
The time of colonial Latin America
During what time was magical realism popular?
200
Recipient of 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature
What is Gunter Grass?
200
Focus/ concern raised in the following quote: "The strange thing is that the knife kept coming out clean" (p. 117)
Reality of death emphasized through the use of magical realism.
200
Factual
What is a common tone in works of magical realism?
300
Realism
Which major genre of writing came before magical realism?
300
Joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army during that time.
What did Ernest Heming do during the First World War?
300
An inability to distinguish reality from a simulation of reality in post-modern societies.
What is hyperreality?
300
Historical
What is the background to conflict in many works of magical realism?
400
Post-modernism, surrealism, and fantasy
What are genres related to magical realism?
400
Character embracing of unreality in all literature
What is Jorge Luis Borges?
400
Rejection of the idea that there is only a single reality or truth
What is a focus of both magical realism and postmodernism?
400
Another well-known literary genre that magical realism shares some traits with
What is postmodernism?
500
Kafka's Metamorphosis, Midnight's Children, Wise Children
What are other examples of novels written in the style of magical realism?
500
Author that defines Magical Realism
What is Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
500
It provided a means of expression.
What was the role of magical realism in Latin American society in the 1940s?
500
"...I returned to this forgotten village, trying to put the broken mirror of memory back together from so many scattered shards."
What is an example of metafiction in Chronicle of a Death Foretold?