I found the Collected Short Stories of Gabriel Garcia Marquez today at the library! I read The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" in class today and took a few notes on the bountiful elements of Magical realism in it. I liked the story and believe that it will work well for my project. I will, however, continue to leaf through the book and find other stories that will work. Once I find a few Marquez stories (besides this one) I will find some Allende stories and pick and choose.

The topic I mentioned yesterday will no doubt work for me. This story is full of Magical realism and even makes a point about outside views of the "magical" that exists in the Latin American world (letters to the Pope in the story were key here). Thus, I think, my topic will be, in a preliminary form: How Latin American society and authors view the concept of magical realism and how that may be different from what a non-latin American would see.

This will evolve as I read of course.