> What's the name of the literary genre utilized by Gabriel García Marquez in his1967 novel One Hundred Years of Solitude?And the answer: magical realism. According to Gabriel García Marquez, magical realism sprang from Latin America’shistory of vicious dictators, romantic revolutionaries, and long years ofhunger, illness and violence. In 1982, the author won the Nobel Prize forLiterature.Before magical realism took center stage in Latin American fiction, the 19thcentury realist movement set the tone for art and literature. As photographybegan to develop as an art form and means of documentation, so too did the needto depict the world as it came – blemishes and all. The poor were no longercleaned up for paintings; literature portrayed even the most banal ofexistences. But just as realism was a response to romanticism, magical realism was areaction to realism. In the constantly-evolving political climate of LatinAmerica, authors such as García Marquez found solace in blurring the linebetween fantasy and reality, using the surrealist tendencies of the genre todepict the actuality of life in a chaotic climate. For García Marquez, the powerof the genre could be found in the seamless convergence of the two halves:reality and fantasy, each heightening the other. In a 1981 interview[https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3196/the-art-of-fiction-no-69-gabriel-garcia-marquez]with Paris Review, the author recalled his grandmother's influence on suchstorytelling:> "She told things that sounded supernatural and fantastic, but she told them withcomplete naturalness. … What was most important was the expression she had onher face. She did not change her expression at all when telling her stories, andeveryone was surprised. In previous attempts to write One Hundred Years ofSolitude, I tried to tell the story without believing in it. I discovered thatwhat I had to do was believe in them myself and write them with the sameexpression with which my grandmother told them: with a brick face.”This "brick face" form of storytelling went on to win the author a Nobel Prize,and an immortal place in Latin American literature. Buy García Marquez'stranscendental text One Hundred Years of Solitude here[https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/one-hundred-years-of-solitude-by-gabriel-garca-mrquez/248056/item/2993557/?mkwid=PH40dz3R%7cdc&pcrid=70112865792&product=2993557&plc=&pgrid=21323651472&ptaid=pla-293630284770&utm_source=google_shopping&utm_content=PH40dz3R%7cdc%7cpcrid%7c70112865792%7cpkw%7c%7cpmt%7c%7cproduct%7c2993557%7cslid%7c%7cpgrid%7c21323651472%7cptaid%7cpla-293630284770%7c&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIn7zQ45Lh6gIVkZOzCh2b8AHdEAQYASABEgJI8fD_BwE#isbn=0060740450&idiq=2993557].