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OT but tangential any magical realism authors to read? So far, I got Marquez, Jorge Louis Borges and Murakami. And preferably recommendation should be good to p
by noname123 13y ago
OT but tangential any magical realism authors to read? So far, I got Marquez, Jorge Louis Borges and Murakami. And preferably recommendation should be good to provide philosophical consolation to a code monkey worker-bee in the capitalist society.
- ulisesrmzroche 13y agoYou may like Rudulfo Anaya, or Isabel Allende. Also, Salman Rushdie.
- ballard 13y agoRushdie can be hit or miss, hits are really good though. Language is decadent.
- gcv 13y agoTry Guy Gavriel Kay. He is generally considered a fantasy writer, but I'd say "alternative-historical magical realism" is a more accurate description. I see a lot of more recent Rushdie in his style. Start with Under Heaven (Tigana is the more common first recommendation, but I don't actually like it as much).
- anatoly 13y agoJulio Cortázar, for his majestic _Hopscotch_, but also and especially for his short stories.
- sfritz 13y agoIvo Andric, The Bridge on the Drina; another Nobel Prize winner
- rimantas 13y agoMaster and Margarita by Bulgakov? Not sure if it is considered a work of magic realism, but elements are there for sure.
- 616c 13y agoFriend convinced me to read it years ago. I found it very different from what I (and others who read more) say about Russian lit. It was very hard for me to even piece all together. Very good recommendation. I second it!
- Jacqued 13y agoThis. One of the very best books of the century, by an often underappreciated author. When I first read it I didn't know Bulgakov and was amazed that such an interesting and beautiful novel could exist. And yes, it is generally associated with magical realism as far as I know, although more loosely. - Adolfo Bioy Casares, a friend of Borges' and another great argentine writer. See Diary of the War of the Pig - Italo Calvino, an Italian writer whose writings you may find of interest in a smiliar (although more wondrous) vein
- jimhart3000 13y agoAlso worth a read if you're a Rolling Stones fan.
- rjtavares 13y agoJosé Saramago. "Blindness" is his most famous book, and probably the easiest to get into.
- jholman 13y agoI have enjoyed Louis de Bernières, in particular his Latin American trilogy, which Bernières acknowledges as highly influenced by GGM. I don't know that it's philosophically consoling, though. I guess I might call it Márquez-lite.
- e3pi 13y agoThomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49: -- where ONE (deceased?) Pierce Inveraity(PI) owns most of San Narcisco, where everyone else, the passed-over Preterite, toss their composed loved letters in the waste can to communicate, and their lives become a miracle by Picard's Theorem in the Cauchy integral formula, eg, Exectrix Oedipa and the Paranoids being chased by a pathological Tony `The Jaguar' and his mafia soldier goons, till sufficiently close to the boundary shores of an artificial island in the middle of PI's artificial closed contoured lake, and withess' another miracle. Again.