One Hundred Years of Magic Reality

Published in 1967, and Nobel Prize winner in 1982; Gabriel García Márquez´s “One Hundred Years of Solitude” is one of the most important pieces of Latin American Literature. At the same time it is the novel that represents the narrative trend of Magic Realism at its best. Magic Realism is a narrative style that got to be known after the first half of the twentieth century; when it was first used by the Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier, later on it would also be used by the Venezuelan writer Arturo Uslar Pietri; who; according to Jorge Gómez, in his essay “Aspectos Formales de la Narrativa” (2004); used it regarding Latin American Literature in 1948. As such; Magic Realism is a technique used in narrative, in which there is not a logical presence because, reality and fantasy join, taking each others place on occasions and creating as a consequence a narrative disorder. Taking these facts into account; “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and Magic Realism hold hands in almost every aspect, because it is possible to analyze the novel trough the technique, and it is mandatory to analyze the technique trough the novel, since they are so closely related.