Linking Magical Realism and the Sublime in A Very Old Man with Enormous

Linking charming reality and the rarified in A very(prenominal) middle-aged Man with Enormous wing Marquezs A Very Old Man with Enormous locomote links Magical Realism and Sublime literature to one anformer(a) in such a charge that Magical Realism seems to be a genre of the Sublime. This short horizontal surface was published with a collection of other stories entitled Leaf drive and Other Stories in 1955. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a native Columbian, has accomplished a large deal in the field of Magical Realism. This particular short business relationship fulfills the requirements for Magical Realism and, at the identical time, the Sublime. This fact leads one to imagine that Magical Realism is, in fact, a genre of the Sublime preferably of the Fantastic. The characteristics of Magical Realism match those of the Sublime much more extensively than those of Fantastical literature. A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings includes many aspects, which may be expound as magical . In the story, an sexagenarian man with a very poor set of move is demonstrate and kept as a pet for several years. These wings were described by the doctor in the story as ...so natural on that completely human organism that he couldnt understand why other men didnt have them, too (528). The fact that the old man had wings in the first place seems very acceptable to the characters, and this nonchalance is conveyed to the reader. To apportion an idea or an object that one is familiar with and distorting that image into something unknown is called defamiliarization (Simkins 150). This use of defamiliarization is a very important characteristic of both Magical Realism as well as the Sublime. An angel is something with which most argon somewhat familiar however, Marquezs angel is a completely different oddball of angel. One e... ...between Magical Realism and Sublime literature seems very plain when one examines the criteria for each. Marquezs A Very Old Man with Enormous Wing s links Magical Realism and Sublime literature to one some other in such a way that Magical Realism seems to be a genre of the Sublime. This short story fulfills the requirements of each. However, the requirements are the very same ideas and principles. Thus Magical Realism should be classified as a type of the Sublime. Works Cited Loginus. On the Sublime. Cambridge Harvard UP, 1995. Sandner, David. The Fantastic Sublime. Westport Greenwood Press, 1996. 51-55. Simpkins, Scott. Sources of Magical Realism/ Supplements to Realism in Contemporary Latin American Literature. Magical Realism Theory, History, Community. Ed. Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris. Durham, N.C. Duke UP, 1995 145-159.