MAGICAL REALISM AND ABSURDITY IN BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD: TALES FROM THE CAFE
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Absurdity, Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Cafe, Characteristics, Magical RealismAbstrak
This research analyzes the characteristics of magical realism and its connection to absurdity in order to achieve acceptance of regret. The object used is the novel titled Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Cafe by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. This research was conducted to see how magic exists and influences a person toward accepting existing problems. The method used is descriptive qualitative, with Wendy B. Faris’s theory for magical realism and Albert Camus’s concept for absurdity. In the object, a total of 181 characteristics of magical realism were found, consisting of 64 Irreducible Elements, 4 Phenomenal Worlds, 11 Unsettling Doubts, 43 Merging Realms, and 59 Disruptions of Time, Space, and Identity. Absurdity was also found thru the characteristic of Irreducible Elements as a bridge to acceptance. This study concludes that the novel Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Cafe by Toshikazu Kawaguchi meets the characteristics of magical realism according to Wendy B. Faris and relates to absurdity leading to acceptance of regret according to Albert Camus’s concept.
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