magical realism | magical realism
Oct.05.2010
I first read Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita on a balcony of the Hotel Metropole in Saigon on three summer evenings in 1971. The tropical air was heavy and full of the smells of cordite and motorcycle exhaust and rotting fish and wood-fire stoves, and the horizon flared ambiguously,...
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Aug.31.2009
I have a feeling there’ll be some disagreement from the Editor community that a collection of short stories should be a haphazard free-for-all, but that’s why indie publishing is so great.
I do plan to eventually write a collection that has a connecting thread, and I hope to publish it...
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Jun.16.2009
Just put up the fifth chapter of my Miner book here on Redroom. This chapter is all about the Unabomber, Ted, a character in my Miner book.
I actually was doing historic preservation surveys during my tenure as an archaeologist for the Helena National Forest Service in the same mountains up near ...
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Mar.26.2009
Chapter 4 is now up...in which Joe learns from an oldtimer about the dangers in opening the old mine
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Feb.05.2009
Man’s Struggles and Woman’s Intrigues.Carlos Fuentes begins Aura with the epigraph from Jules Michelet :“Man hunts and struggles. / Woman intrigues and dreams; [ . . .]. Fuentes explains in the his essay “How I wrote One of My Books,” that man struggles because he—through his own patriarchal...
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Feb.05.2009
Aura and Javier San Andres
Simultaneity is one of those words so charactersitic of Carlos Fuentes, for few writers grasp the totality of natural existence as he does. His writing reveals an essential fact of being: that everything exists simultaneously because all things come from one origin, one...
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Dec.07.2008
One of the hazards of the so-called "magical realist" writers like me is that many an eager reader of the Edwardian persuasion will fail to see that the resolution of this particular narrative style is based on multiplicity and simultaneity rather than conventional realism. I bring out...
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Nov.21.2008
Today I'm visiting Vanessa Gebbie's blog for a discussion about magical realism. Here's a taster: "Only some of the stories in my book would be called magical realist, and that this isn't something I set out consciously to do. Much like you, I imagine, I just follow where the story leads me...
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