Magic Realism in the Novel of “The Last Pomegranate” Written by Baxtiar Ali

Combining the realities of life with traditions, beliefs and extreme daydreaming of people of Caribe area, which was a mixture of African black slaves’ beliefs with the Indian traditions before Coulomb, leaded to the rising of Realism Style. Although this style of writing is mostly attributed to Latin America and Colombian writer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, one can’t claim that this style of writing belongs only to this area, since we can trace this style of writing in Eastern literature such as local and native literature of Iran territory too. In this line, the novel of “The Last Pomegranate” written by Kurdish famous writer, Baxtiar Ali, is one of the professional Kurdish novels whose writer tried to write it in Magic Realism style. This study tries to investigate and analyze the employment of magic realism techniques in this novel. The findings revealed that the writer has employed most indexes and features of magic realism in the novel elequently. The writer has pictured the realities of his own societies in an unfamiliar and magic space and place so eloquently that the reader cast himself/herself in doubt of what is real and what is unreal and magic. In addition, the writer opens new perspectives to us, where a humane and ideal life deprived of cruel and racial prejudice is pictured.