Hernández González, María IsabelSturm-Trigonakis, ElkeKatsanikou, Vasiliki2025-06-212025-06-212020Hernández, 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_8.978-3-662-61784-7978-3-662-61785-4 (eBook)10.1007/978-3-662-61785-4_810.1007/978-3-662-61785-4https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/121676ABSTRACT: 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.engbook parthttps://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-61785-4_8https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-61785-4_8https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-61785-4https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-61785-4https://link.springer.com/https://www.metzlerverlag.de/open access821.112.2(494)Loetscher, Hugo1obr.07Filología alemanaLiteraturaProsaEscritores6202 Teoría, Análisis y Crítica Literarias