This capacious (520 pages) anthology has selections from the authors you would expect to find, from others you may be less familiar with, and from writers you might not expect to show up in this company. The result is a treasure trove of unusual fiction spanning authors from Gogol and Kafka through Woolf and Nabokov to Calvino, Garcia Marquez, and Barthelme--one of the most exciting anthologies to appear in the last decade. This is a poet's companion, a student's delight, great bedside reading: the kind of book you'd take to a desert island!
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Wonderful introduction to magical realist fiction!,
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David Young was a professor of mine at Oberlin College (he is still there), and he proved that he is as sensitive an editor as he was a teacher. This book is especially illuminating in that it begins with selections that can be considered precursors to magical realist fiction. This provides a comprehensive view of the evolution of this genre, which enriches the reading of the stories included later in this volume.
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Magically Delicious!,
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This anthology is an excellent collection of Fantastic readings. Like all anthologies choices can be questioned: "How could David Young leave this out while including that?" But there is a large enough sampling collected to give anyone interested in Magical Realism his or her fill. I would venture to say that this "one book" would satisfy a marooned bibliophile for quite some time.
My favorites are Vladimir Nabokov's THE VISIT TO THE MUSEUM and Julio Cortazar's AXOLOTL, but the rest of the canon includes other literary giants, making this a collection to return to often. It would be a great text for a grad seminar on Fantastic Literature. Highly recommended.
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Take a look at ""Jose Builds a Woman" for a modern example of
an incredible magical realism novel.
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Jinny Love, Juan Manuel, Miss Lizzie, Nikolai Vassilevitch, Boy Scout, Ivan Yakovlevich, Miss Moody, Major de Spain, Moon Lake, Sam Fathers, Carlos Argentino, Major Kovalyov, Little Flower, Joao de Oliveira, Loch Morrison, Vhd Vhd, Lars Bang, Street of Crocodiles, Miss Gurley, Miss Staverton, Alice Staverton, Buenos Aires, Elizabeth Bates, New York, Christoph Detlev New!
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THE TERM "magical realism," as applied to fiction, has begun to have a certain currency since the recent award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jinny Love, Juan Manuel, Miss Lizzie, Nikolai Vassilevitch, Boy Scout, Ivan Yakovlevich, Miss Moody, Major de Spain, Moon Lake, Sam Fathers, Carlos Argentino, Major Kovalyov, Little Flower, Joao de Oliveira, Loch Morrison, Vhd Vhd, Lars Bang, Street of Crocodiles, Miss Gurley, Miss Staverton, Alice Staverton, Buenos Aires, Elizabeth Bates, New York, Christoph Detlev New!
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- Lies that Tell the Truth: Magic Realism Seen through Contemporary Fiction from Britain (Costerus NS 155) by Anne C. Hegerfeldt on page 5, and page 352
- Rediscovering Magical Realism in the Americas by Shannin Schroeder in Back Matter
- Latino Fiction and the Modernist Imagination: Literature of the Borderlands (Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues) by John S. Christie in Back Matter
- Louise Erdrich: A Critical Companion (Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers) by Lorena Laura Stookey in Back Matter
- The Supernatural in Short Fiction of the Americas: The Other World in the New World (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy) by Dana Del George in Back Matter
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