Ain Qureshi
Helle Meyer
Word Count: 1,055
“The Use of Magical Realism in Gabriel-Garcia Márquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold”
Gabriel-García Márquez is an author known for the use of Magical Realism in his novels. Throughout the novel “Chronicle of a death foretold”, the novelist Gabriel-García Márquez uses magical realism as a genre frequently. Magical Realism is defined as being the juxtaposition of realism with fantastic, mythic and magical/supernatural elements. Márquez reflects magical realism by exploring both natural and supernatural worlds and illustrating traces of the culture the characters have, which is Latin American. The magical