Mirroring Love and Magic: A Delve into Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera

Magical realism is the mode that weds myth to realism and fact to fiction. The style combines a realistic mode of writing with marvellous events treated as perfectly ordinary happenings. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a great exponent of the technique is a master in transforming the fabulous into true existence by fusing the fantastic with the factual. The research paper explores the wild and ridiculous roller coaster of emotions that inspires Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera. The influence of the existence of human beings among themselves and the homeland they inherit is the prime focus. In the exordium, the researcher discusses magical realism as a postcolonial narrative technique. Magical realism, with its binary portrayal structure, is capable of presenting the context of postcolonialism from the perspectives of both the colonizer and the colonized. The paper has also dealt with familiar concepts like magic and fallacy, individuality, rationality, perspectives and narrative techniques used by the author in the chosen work. In the core of the paper, the researcher has attempted to excavate Marquez, the magical realist who portrayed the realities of the world through the elements of 'myth, imagination and fantasy.