Re: magic realism

["Linda Lambert , Walnut Hill Sch 508-643-9593" <LLAMBERT@A1.MEC.MASS.EDU>]

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Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 13:44:00 -0500
Subject: RE; magic realism
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To everyone interested in the discussion of magic realism: A handy reference
book, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, defines it as "a kind of
modern fiction in which fabulous and fantastical events are included in a
narrative that otherwise maintains the 'reliable' tone of objective realistic
report. The term was once applied to a trend of German fiction of the early
1950's, but is now associated with novelists...such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez,
Gunter Grass, Milan Kundera, and Salman Rushdie.  The term has also been
extended to works from very different cultures, designating a tendency of the
modern novel to reach beyond the confines of realism and draw upon the energies
of fable, folktale, and myth, while retaining a strong contemporary relevance.
The fantastic attributes given to characters in [some novels]--levitation,
flight, telepathy, telekinesis--are among the means that magic realism adopts in
order to encompass the often phantasmagoric political realities of the 20th
century."
Linda Lambert, Walnut Hill School, Natick,MA.  LLAMBERT@a1.mec.mass.edu

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