Magical Realism In Veronika Decides To Die

Abstract

Veronika Decides to Die tells the story of a young woman transformation from despairing would be suicide to affirm and then affirming survivor. This novel offers an archetypal story of hope, portraying a situation in which joy, freedom and integrity limiting circumstances. In doing so, the narrative thematically explores Nature of Insanity, Self- Realization, Self-Actualization and Quest for Meaning in Life. The importance of living a genuine life and threats to individual identity imposing by closed communities and the rules which they function. The narrative begins on 11^th December 1997, with Veronika’s taking four packets of sleeping pills and with a description of her reasonfor wanting to end her life and choosing for this particular method for doing so. As she waits for the moment to die, she happens to read a French magazine that poses such a strong question that Where Slovenia is. She decides to write a letter to the protest to the magazine’s editor. She thought no one ever knows where Slovenia is. Though she becomes less amused and more uneasy finally reacting with fear to the idea that she is about to die.