-The history of Colombia, including politcs, conlicts, and armed combat.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's profile. Includes his political views, books, journalism, and his early days.
"The Necessity of the Literary Tradition: Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude"
James C. Jupp : English Journal: Vol. 89, no. 3, Our History, Our Selves Jan. 2000
-"The 'magic' in magical realismrefers to the mythic narrative voice that tells of Creation, wandering gypsies, magicians, flying carpets, the plague of insomnia and forgetting, a great flood, and the apocalypse." (James C. Jupp)
James C. Jupp reflects on magical realism as not necessarily being magical, but just helping to set the tone of the underlying notions in One Hundred Years of Solitude. This would mean the emotional aspects and possibly the ties to Columbia are more precedent. It indicates that it is not "magical" but, like the Bible, is used to express the meaning of the characters and the story line.
New American Bible: St. Joseph Edition
Catholic Book Publishing Co. New York
-The Old Testament features the Ten plagues by Moses while in Egypt. These plagues can be compared to the plagues and other events that occurred in One Hundred Years of Solitude. The situations around each are analyzed and contrasted.
Johnson, Ian. "Lecture on 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'" May 1999
Google Search. Liberal Studies 402.
-"A good deal of this quality comes from the style, the "magic realism," which strikes at our traditional sense of naturalistic fiction. There is something clearly magical about the world of Macondo; it is a state of mind as much as, or even more than, a real geographical place." (Ian Johnson).
Johnson says that Macondo, although possibly a real place, is more of a thought or state of mind. He indicates then that the ties to Columbia are not central but may be just a side notion. With that said, the Biblical comparisons to the magical events that occur in One Hundred Years of Solitude may not be justified.
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