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He's “a man terribly pleased to have hobnobbed with so many Presidents and Archbishops” He opened the flood gates of saccharine magic realism which haunts Lati
by stplsd 12y ago
He's “a man terribly pleased to have hobnobbed with so many Presidents and Archbishops”
He opened the flood gates of saccharine magic realism which haunts Latin America literature to this day.
- ulisesrmzroche 12y agoOh chill out buddy, #1, you're being a jerk. #2, you're wrong, Borges had more to do with it, but really it was there long before them anyway.
- slurry 12y agoDisagree, but upvoted. Magical realism in general and Garcia Marquez in particular are more critically problematic than many realize. I don't think this thread should gloss over that entirely, even if the tone of objection is unlovely.
- ulisesrmzroche 12y agoNah, you're both wrong, and what's worse, you're holding strawmans. Not the time and place for this, my dudes.
- ballard 12y agoYup. Speaking ill of the dead is awful.
- Myrmornis 12y agoAgree that this thread should not gloss over the gigabytes of rubbish written by undergrads in response to "magical realism", and what's worse, the person-years wasted by a devotion to the arts inspired by a combination of a childish attraction to this sort of stuff and the spurious academic credentials accorded to it.
- frozenport 12y agoHe isn't responsible for his imitators!