"Magical Realism is defined as what happens when a highly detailed, realistic setter is invaded by something too strange to believe."
In the context of Western literature, magical reality Doctrine is used to define a large amount of Latin American literature, of which the most known to the Chinese is probably the work "A Hundred Years of Solitude" by García Márquez.
This kind of opening really makes me unfavorable. The words "Magic Reality" seem to span the gap between the Latin American world and Western society. It is a permanent cultural barrier created by Europeans who hold the right to speak in literature. The so-called "magic fantasy" emphasizes existence that violates common sense, goes against logic, and even challenges ethics, but they are also people and things that actually happen in the real society. In my opinion, "magic reality" is not a holistic concept, and "magic reality" is relative to "reality". There is no "magic" without "reality". It's like a concept that a gentleman and a villain appear in pairs. We do not define a gentleman in terms of non-little people, but we define a villain in terms of non-gentlemen. For the Europeans who invented "Magic Reality", rational reality is a one-line understanding, rooted in its own cultural context and framework, and things that cannot be simply classified outside this framework are undoubtedly Be the opposite of it. It cannot be denied that our cognitive system needs a structured classification of concepts as the foundation, knowledge grows in the framework, and this is the extension of the dependence. But stubbornly maintaining the framework will limit the boundaries of imagination and dialogue between civilizations.
Narcos was almost finished watching this film at the end of the summer vacation. The character in the play that touches me the most is not the drug lord Escobar, but the drug police Steve who represents the interests of the United States. Although this character is portrayed as neutral as possible, his words and deeds still cannot escape the arrogance and cultural ignorance that Americans have been criticized for.
The United States that Colombians don't like. Chatting with friends in Colombia, many people will mention that a century ago, in order to grasp the right to excavate and use the Panama Canal, the Americans forcibly delineated Panama from Colombia's territory and supported it as an independent country. In the century after such a robbery, the United States has repeatedly incarcated "messengers of justice" and violated Colombia's military and political sovereignty. The story of rounding up the big drug lord Escobar is one of them.
The first time I heard the story of Escobar was in a small Bolivian village on the edge of the Amazon Yulin, not far from the southeast border of Colombia. I was a volunteer there, led by a biologist from Colombia, her specialty is monkey research. During those two months of almost nothing to do, we lay in hammocks and lay in hammocks, besides chasing the monkeys in the rainforest to chop down trees. I talked about my one-party politics, about Taiwan, about Beijing. She told me about her home in Bogotá, about drug lords, about the endless civil war, about her good friend's father being kidnapped and blackmailed when she was a teenager. We also talked about García Márquez, who had just passed away during that time.
Living in a village that has many similarities with Macondo, it was the first time I learned about South America from a medium other than words. Learn about her natural landscape, ancient civilization, colonial history, and the struggle and exploration of a developing country in a modern society. At the beginning of the 21st century, I was in this place far away from Western civilization on the map. There is no running water or electricity, but I can use all the dishes and utensils imported from China, riding a motorcycle, and digging wild yucca and sugar cane. , Hunting for meat, watching girls give birth to children at the age of thirteen or four, there are also boys living in the west of the village who do not recognize his children from the east of the village, and fathers who don’t know how many children they have, and they can be seen by looking up. The sky is full of stars. I don’t know what kind of emotion I am in every day, chanting their famous aphorism, "What can be done tomorrow, don’t do it today." When I was surrounded by all of this, I heard that Pablo Escobar started a civil war for drug trafficking. , The story of building a jail like a resort for yourself, everything seems so natural, as if they should have happened in the first place.
In 1982, Marquez Nobel gave a speech at the award ceremony with the title "Loneliness in Latin America". He said that the reality in South America is difficult to understand by the Western world. Because of the wars, plagues, massacres, displacement, and survival of the Jedi on the Latin American continent, all the crazy, bizarre, and unusual things always accompany the lives of Latin Americans. "It determines the invincibility of our daily occurrences. Countless deaths provide us with a creative source that never dries up, full of disasters and beautiful stories." Marquez laughed at the self-righteousness of thinkers in the European and American rational world. They cannot let go of their historical context and cultural framework, and naturally they can only regard the Latin American world as weird. "Using other people's charts to explain our reality will only make us less known, less free, and lonely."
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