Research Paper On The Handsomest Drowned Man

The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World
“ You learn the meaning of life when you meet someone who gives your life a whole new meaning”. This quotation describes the impact of the arrival of the drowned man Esteban in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s short story The Handsomest Drowned man in the World. This quote describes that your life can be completely transformed after the arrival of a influential person in your life. In the short story, a drowned man named Esteban is the influential person in the lives of villagers in a small community located near the sea. The tale opens with a group of children discovering and playing with a corpse that they would later called ‘Esteban’. Soon after discovering the dead corpse the villagers try to locate his hometown because they knew that he was a stranger. The women in the village take a particular

He studied journalism at the National University of Colombia and University of Cartagena. He has written several stories including the Leafstorm and Other Stories and One Hundred Years of Solitude. Marquez uses the technique of magical realism in his short stories and novels. He uses magical realism to combine fantasy and reality. In The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World, magic meets realism when the drowned man arrives at the ordinary poor village located near the sea. Donna Gessel from the University of North Carolina describes the usage of magical realism in the story in the quotation “ A body washed up by the ocean and found by children becomes the occasion that sparks villagers to create a new world for themselves, transforming their lives by introducing possibilities beyond their imaginations. The goal of magical realism is often such a stretching of the imagination. This story, however, offers more than an opportunity to teach elements of magical realism; it offers lessons in the creative thinking process itself.”(Magic Beyond