Visual Representation of the Fantastic
Posted in dystopia, Fantastic, Reality, time on Apr 16th, 2020
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In “Eisenheim the Illusionist” you are led to believe that you should follow the rule of the show and don’t tell, this is, however, a magician’s world. Millhauser has chosen his time frame with care: he tells us in the very first sentence that “[i]n the last years of the nineteenth century, when the Empire […]
More Time in One Hundred Years of Solitude
Posted in One Hundred Years of Solitude, time on Mar 26th, 2020
In my last blog post, I talked about the theme of circular time in One Hundred Years of Solitude. This theme can also be seen in the last pages of the novel, as Aureliano reads Melquiades’s parchments: Aureliano had never been more lucid in any act of his life as when he forgot about his […]
Reality and Fantastic in OHYOS
Posted in One Hundred Years of Solitude, time on Mar 26th, 2020
There is an advantage for an author using the novel form with the fantastic versus a short story or combination of stories as we have read previously in class. One advantage is the author’s ability to use foreshadowing and dropping hints of the fantastic. In OHYOS there are many fantastical elements at play. An example […]
Two in One
Posted in One Hundred Years of Solitude, time on Mar 25th, 2020
We were asked to offer our list of the fantastic or add to JGB’s list in one or two ways… I want to offer an alternative of how two of the fantastic elements that he offered may also be considered one. The idea of “reanimation” and “elasticity of time” happen to coincide in the sense […]
Garcia Marquez’s Use of Time
Posted in Mystery, One Hundred Years of Solitude, time on Mar 24th, 2020
Time is in flux in One Hundred Years of Solitude. The future is continuously referenced throughout the novel, and the current events are written in the past tense. Because of this, we never quite have a firm stance. Garcia Marquez prepares us for this in the opening line that is both future and past. These […]
Time in One Hundred Years of Solitude
Posted in One Hundred Years of Solitude, time on Mar 23rd, 2020
“Looking at the sketch that Aureliano Triste drew on the table and that was a direct descendant of the plans with which Jose Arcadio Buendia had illustrated his project for solar warfare, Ursula confirmed her impression that time was going in a circle,” writes Gabriel Garcia Marquez in One Hundred Years of Solitude, and as […]