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2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
In his 1967 novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Màrquez wrote about the fictional town of Macondo as a place containing an "intricate stew of truths and mirages" where "God had decided to put to the test every capacity for surprise and was keeping the inhabitants … in a permanent alternation between excitement and disappointment, doubt and revelation, to such an extreme that no one knew for certain where the limits of reality lay." Garcia Màrquez later referred to Macondo as a "state of mind" more than any actual place, but the fictional town he created can be seen as somewhat representative of Latin America as a whole. Indeed, the recent history of Latin America comprises so many moments of "excitement and disappointment," so many highs and lows and so much "truth and mirage" that this region has fittingly given the world the distinctive literary style known as "magic realism.
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