The show is also one of three ambitious projects released this year reimagining beloved Latin American classics treasured by book lovers for their use of magical realism.
In addition to “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” Netflix also recently adapted Juan Rulfo's Mexican novel "Pedro Páramo" into a film.
Magical realism is having its TV momentGarcía Márquez, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1982, was best known for novels and short stories that use magical realism to blur the lines between fantasy and reality.
An important literary tool for many Latin American authors, magical realism allows these writers to both explain sociopolitical realities and the abstract feelings associated with them.
"The power of magical realism is that we don’t see it as magical realism.
Persons:
Gabriel García Márquez’s, Juan Rulfo's, Pedro Páramo, Max, Laura Esquivel's, Cruz Castillo, Castillo, Ana, Christina Ramón, ” Ramón, Ramón, “ It’s, ”, Márquez, It’s, Laura Mora, Alex García López, ” Mora, Manuel García Rulfo, Juan Preciado, Preciado, García Márquez, Rulfo, Mexican Esquivel, Azul, Tita de la Garza, Salma Hayek Pinault, Rodrigo García, Gonzalo García, Alexis García López, García López
Organizations:
Netflix, National Hispanic Media Coalition, University of California, Columbia University, Foundation, New, Reuters
Locations:
Los Angeles, Macondo, Márquez’s, Colombia, Spanish, London, Cuba, Havana