%0 Book Section
%T Space, Time, Memory : Magical Realism and Postcolonialism in Hugo Loetscher’s Prose
publisher J.B. Metzler, imprint published by the registered company Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature
%D 2020
%U 978-3-662-61784-7
%U 978-3-662-61785-4 (eBook)
%@ https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/121676
%X ABSTRACT: Since the publication of Gabriel García Márquez’ "Cien años de soledad" ("One hundred Years of Solitude") in 1967, Magical Realism has been a style of writing that has aroused great interest both among literary critics and the readership and has been mostly perceived, firstly, as a purely Latin American phenomenon without an equivalent in any other literary tradition, and secondly, as a postcolonial counter-discourse to allegedly typical European rationality. However, the novels of the Swiss writer Hugo Loetscher serve as a perfect riposte to that claims, since Loetscher developed Magical Realism into a powerful creative device for fiction as well as journalism. Thus, Loetscher’s work demonstrates that Magical Realism has transcended the Latin American space and has to be conceived of as a globally acting genre, and as such, it is a characteristic example of World Literature.
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