RT Book, Section
T1 Space, Time, Memory : Magical Realism and Postcolonialism in Hugo Loetscher’s Prose
A1 Hernández González, María Isabel
A2 Sturm-Trigonakis, Elke
A2 Katsanikou, Vasiliki
AB 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.
PB J.B. Metzler, imprint published by the registered company Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature
SN 978-3-662-61784-7
SN 978-3-662-61785-4 (eBook)
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/121676
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/121676
LA eng
NO Hernández, Isabel. «Space, Time, Memory : Magical Realism and Postcolonialism in Hugo Loetscher’s Prose	». World Literature and the Postcolonial : Narratives of (Neo) Colonialization in a Globalized World, editado por Elke Sturm-Trigonakis, J.B. Metzler, 2020, pp. 119-35, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-61785-4_8.
DS Docta Complutense
RD 18 jul 2025