A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings
by Gabriel García Márquez

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A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings: Genre 1 key example

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“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” is a short story that belongs to the genre of magical realism. Magical realist literature, which originated in 20th-century Latin America with authors like Marquez, combines believable realist elements with fantastical ones. In “A Very Old Man,” the magical realism comes through in the way that angels and spider-human hybrids exist in an otherwise very realistic world (where people face financial hardship, the Catholic Church holds sway, etc.).