Riflessi della storia e della politica nei romanzi di GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ, SALMAN RUSHDIE e ISABEL ALLENDE.

The paper intends to deal with the way history is seen and used in magical realist writings, namely as a subjective view on things happened in the past, precisely because the past can be known only by means of documents, testimonies a.s.o. of other people. Hence, memory plays an important role in telling (his) tories. In Gabriel García Márquez, Salman Rushdie and Isabel Allende's novels, the reader clearly distinguishes echoes of the historical events occurring in the respective countries, but these events are shaped by the characters' personal perspectives, which constitute alternative versions to the official History [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]