Blending of Fiction with Historical Reality in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and Grabiel Gracia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Interdisciplinary Literary Studies Pub Date : 2021-09-02 DOI:10.3126/litstud.v34i01.39525

Khum Prasad Sharma

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This paper investigates the use of magic realism as a strategic tool in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (1981) and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967). Both the authors belong to two distinct continents; still, they have similar histories and stories of struggle. They develop a unique relationship while untangling reality. They create the mysterious relationship between the human beings and their circumstances in a way more realistic than the realist text.Also, the textual analysis reveals the basic goal of both the novelist to revisit their past through magic realism as both of them believe in the distortion of reality as outcome of colonial impact in their respective societies. In this sense, this paper justifies the rationale behind the blending of fiction and historical reality in both the novels. In doing so it explores how the unsayable in today’s world of asymmetrical power and domination could be said through the use of tools and elements of magic realism such as hybridity, authorial presence, metafiction, awareness of mystery in a real world setting.

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拉什迪《午夜的孩子》与马尔克斯《百年孤独》小说与历史现实的融合

本文考察了萨尔曼·拉什迪的《午夜的孩子》(1981)和加布里埃尔·加西亚·马尔克斯的《百年孤独》(1967)中将魔幻现实主义作为一种战略工具的运用。两位作者都属于两个不同的大陆;然而，他们有着相似的历史和奋斗故事。他们在理清现实的过程中发展出一种独特的关系。他们以一种比现实主义文本更现实的方式创造了人类与环境之间的神秘关系。此外，文本分析揭示了两位小说家通过魔幻现实主义重温他们的过去的基本目标，因为他们都相信现实的扭曲是各自社会殖民影响的结果。从这个意义上说，本文为这两部小说中虚构与历史现实的融合提供了理论依据。在这样做的过程中，它探索了在当今不对称的权力和统治世界中，如何通过使用魔法现实主义的工具和元素，如混合性、作者的存在、元小说、现实世界背景下的神秘意识，来表达不可言说的东西。

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期刊介绍： Interdisciplinary Literary Studies seeks to explore the interconnections between literary study and other disciplines, ideologies, and cultural methods of critique. All national literatures, periods, and genres are welcomed topics.