Magical Realism and Quantum Physics :: Magical Realism Literature

Magical naive realism and Quantum PhysicsThe term Magical Realism is said to have started with the German art critic Franz Roh, who employ the trem to run along the return of art to Realism from Expressionism. The term Magical Realism has overly been used to categorize some the novels and short stories of authors such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gunter Grass, and joke Fowls. These writers use techniques that combine the real and unreal in ways that requirey them believable and acceptable by both the reader and characters in the stories. These techniques withal can be said to correspond with fields of study such as quantum natural philosophy.One of these techniques that can be connected to the field of quantum physics is the closeness or near-merging of two realms, two worlds (Faris). This technique was used in Gabriel Marquezs short story crystalize is Like Water when the two brothers Toto and Joel used a metaphor to make the two realms of imagination and man wrench close to one another. According to some quantum physicists, this merging could theoretically happen.If quantum physicists were to read Light is Like Water, I believe that they would come to the conclusion that a wormhole had opened between two existing parallel universes and allowed such an detail to take place. In his book HYPERSPACE A Scientific Odyssey Through analog Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension Michio Kaku states thatNormally, life proceeds on from each one of these parallel planes independent of the others. On rare occasions, however, the planes may intersect and, for a brief moment, tear the fabric of space itself, which opens up a hole- or gateway- between these two universes. (23)This intersecting of planes of existence seems to have happened in Light is Like Water.I believe the reason that Magical Realism has function such a popular genre is because the events that happen are believable and can be done without the aid of machines. Magical Realism in additio n gives people a break from reality without really leaving the reality that they have come to know and trust. It also gives a look at things that we have overlooked in our busy lives.