Latin America A dark and melodramatic author named Edgar Allan Poe once said in one of his poems, “I became sane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” This quote from “The Raven” couriers the deep dark meaning to his own life. The author, Jorge Luis Borges, also uses dark lines to express his own life situations. Dark themes are shown throughout Latin American literature to tell a story of the author’s point in life, it also is in need of more time, therefore time was clear throughout human
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Magic Realism One Hundred Years of Solitude Magic realism is a literary form in which odd, eerie, and dreamlike tales are related as if the events were commonplace. Magic realism is the opposite of the "once-upon-a-time" style of story telling in which the author emphasizes the fantastic quality of imaginary events. In the world of magic realism, the narrator speaks of the surreal so naturally it becomes real. Magic realism can be traced back to Jorge Luis Borges