Escaping Absurdity: The Incarnation of Magical Realism in Rawi Hage’s Carnival (2012)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1306.24Keywords:
magical realism, exile, absurdity of human existence, Fly, Albert CamusAbstract
This paper examines the various representations of magical realism in Rawi Hage’s Carnival (2012). It investigates the portrayal of the fictionalized imaginative situations in the novel. Further, it discusses Fly as an exilic individual who attempts to escape his chaotic and disordered society. Through his flying carpet, Fly overcomes his hardship and produces a new space for his own in order to realize what he desires. Besides, among the serious problems that face the exilic individual is the absurdist existential life in exile. Thereby, this research article explores how Fly uses a magical realist element to escape the absurdity of his existence in the diaspora. Hence, Albert Camus’ writings on absurdism and the absurdity of human existence are paramount in analyzing this character.
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