For a contemporary literature class exploring connections to twentieth century events and literature

1. Marquez, Neruda,

2. Sexuality
Age of Realism vs. 20 th
Century
Harsh realities
Escapism

5.  Coined by European Literary theorists to describe the
new approach to literature coming out of South
America in the mid 20th Century
 Combines harsh realities with magical elements
 Salvador Dali
 MC Escher

10.  Born in Columbia in 1927
 Awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1982
 Wrote everything under the sun
 Poetry
 Novels
 Screenplays
 plays… etc
 Novels include: Love in the Time of Cholera, and One
Hundred Years of Solitude.
 Popularized a literary style called Magical Realism

11.  “In every book I try to make a different path [...]. One
doesn't choose the style. You can investigate and try to
discover what the best style would be for a theme. But
the style is determined by the subject, by the mood of
the times. If you try to use something that is not
suitable, it just won't work. Then the critics build
theories around that and they see things I hadn't seen.
I only respond to our way of life, the life of the
Caribbean.”

12.  "'The way you treat reality in your books...has been
called magical realism. I have the feeling your
European readers are usually aware of the magic of
your stories but fail to see the reality behind it...’
'This is surely because their rationalism prevents them
seeing that reality isn't limited to the price of tomatoes
and eggs.'"

13.  Born Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto
 Created the name Pablo Neruda as a pen name.
 Awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1971.
 First South American in 30 years to win a Nobel in
Literature
 Jorge Luis Borges summed up Neruda quite famously:

14.  "Well, he wrote a book -- well, maybe here I'm being political -- he wrote a
book about the tyrants of South America, and then he had several stanzas
against the United States. Now he knows that that's rubbish. And he had not a
word against Perón. Because he had a lawsuit in Buenos Aires, that was
explained to me afterwards, and he didn't care to risk anything. And so, when
he was supposed to be writing at the top of his voice, full of noble
indignation, he had not a word to say against Perón. And he was married to an
Argentine lady, he knew that many of his friends had been sent to jail. He knew
all about the state of our country, but not a word against him. At the same
time, he was speaking against the United States, knowing the whole thing was
a lie, no? But, of course, that doesn't mean anything against his poetry. Neruda
is a very fine poet, a great poet in fact. And when they gave Miguel de
Asturias the Nobel Prize, I said that it should have been given to Neruda! Now
when I was in Chile, and we were on different political sides, I think he did the
best thing to do. He went on a holiday during the three or four days I was there
so there was no occasion for our meeting. But I think he was acting politely, no?
Because he knew that people would be playing him up against me, no? I
mean, I was an Argentine, poet, he was a Chilean poet, he's on the side of
the Communists, I'm against them. So I felt he was behaving very wisely in
avoiding a meeting that would have been quite uncomfortable for both of
us."[44]