Investigating similar and distinct manifestations of magical realism in "Heaven" by Bahram Sadeghi and "A very old man with enormous wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Magical realism is one of the important literary flows in developing countries that critics have investigated this area works' characteristics in two different disciplines of fiction styles and/ or literary schools. The main origin of this is Latin America, however, also in Persian language, due to cultural and social similarities, similar and sometimes distinct manifestations of the literary style can be seen. Since most of previous studies have investigated commonalities of magical realism manifestation in works of Persian land literature writers and Latin America famous writers, in this paper, by an adaptive- comparative method similar and distinct manifestations of this genre have been investigated and analyzed in two stories of "Heaven" by Bahram Sadeghi and "a very old man with enormous wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

The results show, although the two stories in terms of split cultural origin and common components such as: strange beliefs manifestation, the use of symbols, contrast and mix of tradition and modernity are within magical realism range, if we look at their sub difference stories of Marquez and many Latin American writers from the perspective of including magical realism components are more proportional to realism available in land and rural literature of Iran and Heaven of Sadeghi considering the prevailing structuralism, regarding modern elements and the kind of the author view to traditions mainly reflects a kind of magical realist story that can be called urban magical realism.