THE INTERPRETATION OF THE TOPIC OF RESPONSIBILITY IN WORKS OF MAGIC REALISM

Abstract

The article deals with a category of responsibility in works written in magic realism by modern American writers such as Ransom Riggs, John Martin, Jonathan Carroll, Odry Niffenegger, Steven King and John Updike. All writers present the ways of realization of the problem of responsibility both in real and unreal worlds in their own way. The authors look at the topic from such angles as the children’s responsibility before the parents, the responsibility of the adults in their communication with the children, the responsibility of the creator for their works and the responsibility before the members of the family for their lives. The material presented in the paper leads to the conclusion that peculiarities of magic realism works give writers the opportunity to show the problem of responsibility both from the point of view of real characters and unreal ones which demonstrate unusual solving of the analyzed problem.