Magical Realism in "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Essay

An incredibly large object washes toward the shore. Not until the floating mass washes ashore, do the children realize that this is a man, a drowned man. At first, the children amused themselves by playing with the body, burying the corpse, digging it up and re-burying it over and over. Men from the village noticed their play and alerted the others in the village.
The body was taken into the village, laid out on the floor, and upon examination, the villagers realized that he was a stranger, not from their village. …