Comments on: Bobb and Harold and Magical Realism http://cheriblock.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/magical-realism-stinks/ Storytelling, Writing, People, and Education Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:56:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Overwriting « Notes from Around the Block http://cheriblock.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/magical-realism-stinks/#comment-963 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:19:29 +0000 http://cheriblocksabraw.com/?p=477#comment-963 [...] I am going to pick on Salman Rushdie again and his overwritten novel, The Enchantress of Florence. Here is one [...]

]]> By: Cheri http://cheriblock.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/magical-realism-stinks/#comment-937 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:27:17 +0000 http://cheriblocksabraw.com/?p=477#comment-937 What is the difference, then, between fantasy and magical realism?

]]> By: Douglas http://cheriblock.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/magical-realism-stinks/#comment-935 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:01:48 +0000 http://cheriblocksabraw.com/?p=477#comment-935 I tend to agree with those who say it is basically fantasy. Magical Realism, that is. Dean Koontz does a good job of it, if I understand the genre properly.

]]> By: Cheri http://cheriblock.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/magical-realism-stinks/#comment-934 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:06:20 +0000 http://cheriblocksabraw.com/?p=477#comment-934 Andreas: After reading Solitude, and reading the reviews, the adulation, and the book cover announcing it was the most important story written since Genesis, I wondered, What is wrong with my reading and insight???. Clearly, I must be shallow and unknowing. So I read it again. Same reaction. It must be me!

Chourou, you are right. There are images in Solitude that force the reader to stop and imagine. It must be me! :) Or maybe the genre.

As you can see from my mini-unsubstantial review of Enchantress, same reaction. Like a parlor with too much bric-a-brac..

Regarding Otto Dix. Thanks Andreas for sending that link. He and Stephen Crane have commonality.

Regarding Milan Kundera:Is he considered within the realm of magical realism?

]]> By: Chourou http://cheriblock.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/magical-realism-stinks/#comment-933 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:36:29 +0000 http://cheriblocksabraw.com/?p=477#comment-933 Twice. Great,Cheri.
Although I probably don’t get exactly what magical realism is like, but I know the novel written by Márquez has been seen as a symbolic one of the genre. And years ago I read it just once, in Japanese version of course, excitingly. And then I got, kind of, say, a dizziness, with its complicated but blunt form of narration, so I have to adimit I took a little bit patience to read through ,as AndereasKluth mentions above. I don’t know whether a metal fish fabricated by the first Jose surely could swim in the air or not(lol), but I would say that way of describing has a cetain amount of POWER to lure many readers into the story itself.

Then, how about Milan Kundera?

]]> By: andreaskluth http://cheriblock.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/magical-realism-stinks/#comment-932 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:07:46 +0000 http://cheriblocksabraw.com/?p=477#comment-932 Yay, verily and forsooth!

I sooo did not “get” magical realism when I was reading García Márquez. Or rather, I did get it but it annoyed me. As you said, it takes patience to read, and readers don’t want to have to be patient.

I’m so with you on this.

“…dead soldiers with ants in their wounds and prostitutes dying of syphilis on the streets..”: It’s as if you were talking about an Otto Dix exhibit.

]]> By: Cheri http://cheriblock.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/magical-realism-stinks/#comment-928 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:46:11 +0000 http://cheriblocksabraw.com/?p=477#comment-928 Hi Chourou,

I did read that book, twice.

What did you think of it?

]]> By: Chourou http://cheriblock.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/magical-realism-stinks/#comment-927 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:53:09 +0000 http://cheriblocksabraw.com/?p=477#comment-927 Magical realism. Cool. Have you ever read García Márquez’s”One Hundred Years of Solitude “?

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