Information about the author:
Tamara V. Kudryavtseva
Tamara V. Kudryavtseva, DSc in Philology, Director of Research, А.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Povarskaya 25 а, 121069 Moscow, Russia.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8279-8639
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Abstract:
The article considers historical and theoretical aspects of German magical realism, the peculiarities of this literary movement in Germany from its origins to the present day. The history of the concept of “magical realism” is traced, the specifics of its manifestations in the literary works of the authors who belong to this movement are studied. The differences between magical realism and other artistic systems that coexisted with it at the same time are shown. Such a feature of the poetics of this movement as lifelikeness, the obligatory presence of specific and recognizable features of physical and historical reality is established, which goes along with the rejection of the psychologically determined principle of depicting a person in society and the desire to show the coexistence and interpenetration of two realities: the “lower”, primary, seemingly obvious, but not authentic, and the “higher”, authentic reality, at the level of which the stereotypes of behavior suitable for life in the first one lose all meaning and significance.
