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Magic realism, a term that seems to be postulated differently by various authors; Asturias claimed the literary genre as a specific expression of the Latin American society; Homi Bhabha categorises magic realism as the literary language of the postcolonial world; Fredric Jameson claims it to be a kind of narrative material derived from peasant society or tribal myth while Salman Rushdie considers the term to be an expression of a Third-world consciousness. Although the term has thus become ‘anything you want it to mean’, magic realism still follows a general conception by Carpentier, where real maravilloso is not a realism to be transfigured by the ‘supplement’ of a magical perspective but a reality which is already in and of itself magical or fantastic. Which is why, in magic realism, the supernatural as well as highly improbable events are presented without any comment from the narrator and these events are accepted in a matter-of-fact manner. As can be seen through the film El Laberinto del Fauno by Guillermo del Toro, Ofelia’s encounter of magic is accepted factually.

However, in this film, what functions does fantasy serve in reality? What relation does the fantasy have with reality?


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