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What magic realism literature are there in Latin America?
1, a hundred years of loneliness

One Hundred Years of Solitude is a novel by Colombian writer Garcia Marquez, and it is also a representative work of Latin American magical realism literature. Known as "a masterpiece that reproduces the historical and social picture of Latin America."

The work describes the legendary story of seven generations of Buendia family and the centenary rise and fall of Macondo, a small town on the Caribbean coast, and reflects the changeable history of Latin America in the past hundred years.

The works are mixed with myths and legends, folk stories, religious allusions and other mysterious factors. , skillfully combines reality and illusion, shows a magnificent imaginary world, and becomes one of the important classic literary masterpieces in the 20th century.

2. Corn Man

Corn Man is a novel written by Guatemalan writer Miguel á ngel Asturias in 1949.

Based on the illusory artistic conception of myths and legends, the novel describes the real life of farmers in mountainous areas and the conflict between Indians and local whites in corn planting, truly reflects the vast life field of Guatemalan society before the 1950s, and reveals the contradiction between traditional concepts and modern concepts.

3. Midnight's Son

Midnight is a book published by Beijing Yanshan Publishing House on 20 15. The author is Indian writer Salman Rushdie (also translated as Salman Rushdie). After 198 1 went online, the original English version won many awards, not only the Booker Award of that year, but also the "Special Booker Award" of 1993 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Booker Award.

In 2008, this book won the "Best Booker Award" specially set up to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Booker Award. It is this book that established Rushdie's international reputation.