A Comparative Study Of Magical Realism And Socio-Psychological Realism In The Works Of Erkin A’zam And Gabriel García Márquez

Abstract

This study presents a comparative analysis of the narrative strategies, spatial mythologies, and psychological frameworks in the fiction of Uzbek writer Erkin A’zam and Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez. Grounded in comparative literature methodologies, hermeneutic textual analysis, and psychological framing, the paper investigates how both authors construct distinct micro-universes—specifically Boysun in A’zam’s screenplays/novellas (such as Parizod and Beshoshan) and Macondo in Márquez’s Cien años de soledad (One Hundred Years of Solitude) and Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes (A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings). The principal results demonstrate that while Márquez employs Magical Realism to blur the line between myth and everyday reality, A’zam utilizes Socio-Psychological Realism embedded with subtle allegorical and ironical registers. Nevertheless, both authors converge on core thematic axes: the portrayal of profound human solitude, the critique of social hypocrisy, and the transformation of localized geography into a universal arena for testing human integrity. The study concludes that comparing A’zam with Márquez enriches global literary discourse by highlighting how Central Asian prose translates local cultural ethnography into universal existential paradigms.

Keywords

Erkin A’zam; Gabriel García Márquez; Magical Realism; comparative literature; Parizod; spatial mythology

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