The concept that concerns us in this review has a varied number of meanings that are linked to observing events and situations in a cold and objective way, without being influenced by feelings or distorting thoughts of what is happening. See things as they really are. However, sometimes one finds oneself in a realism that is not such, being the result of deception and manipulation, or even the refusal to open one's eyes.
Way of presenting reality as it is
The realism is that way of presenting or conceiving reality as it is. That is to say, whoever is the holder of this position will not exaggerate or minimize a situation x, but will take it as it is, with the importance it implies, without alarm, but also without giving it the attention it deserves. "His realism prevented investment in a business that seemed great but turned out to be unprofitable in the long run..
Practical way of acting and thinking
On the other hand, also at practical way of thinking and acting that someone has it is called as realism. " You have to be more realistic Laura, that insecure man is not for you, you need another type of man by your side.”
There are people who, due to their personality and character, are more practical than others, they solve the questions that are presented to them in a concrete way and without too many turns, while there are other people who act on the contrary with a lot of doubt, they should consult before deciding something because they do not have a great conviction to do it well per se.
Philosophical doctrine that considers that things exist beyond consciousness
Also, the word realism designates that philosophical doctrine that considers that things exist apart and independently of conscience.
For philosophy, realism is a doctrine that proposes that those objects perceived by the senses have an independent existence and that it goes beyond that of the individual who perceives them as real. In other words, they exist beyond what you or I perceive them.
Realism: faithful representation of nature
While, at the behest of art, realism is the aesthetic system that aims to establish itself as a faithful imitation of nature; we can meet him pictorial realism, which will try to capture reality in the paintings and with the literary realism, which for its part will try to offer a reliable testimony about the time with which it deals.
Literary realism and magic realism
Literary Realism is a current that implied a break with Romanticism, an immediately previous movement and that placed special emphasis on the value of feelings, both in terms of ideology and formality, back in the second half of the 19th century. . He also knew how to have his counterpart in plastic art, especially in Latin America.
Its salient features include the exact reproduction of reality; The authors of this current put aside their ego and their subjectivity to focus and interest in the society to which they belonged or in which they lived and which they portrayed in their works.
They observed and objectively described social problems, for example.
They also impose a modification in terms of language since they decide on a simple, precise and sober language, without stridences, giving special presence to colloquial language, that is, the characters dialogue as they do in their daily speech and depending on the social stratum to the that belong.
For his part, the magical realism , it's a literary movement that arose in Latin America in the middle of the last century and that stood out for introduction of fantasy-type elements in the middle of a narrative that proposed realism; the Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude) he has been one of the most faithful exponents of this movement.
Márquez wrote it in Mexico between 1965 and 1966 and it was published for the first time in Buenos Aires, Argentina, by Editorial Sudamericana, a year after it was finished. The book tells the story of the Buendía family over several generations in the fictional town of Macondo.
The proposal is to show the unreal and the curious as normal and everyday, that is, the events that are told are real but they are attributed an absolutely fantastic connotation, which cannot be explained, and even more, they are events that can hardly really happen.
And in America, especially Latin America in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the realism was called doctrine or opinion favorable to the Spanish monarchy, which in those days dominated almost all of Central and South America.
