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Magical Realism International literary and artistic movement, primarily in the 20th Century
Page created by Gloria Morrissey
Gloria Morrissey's Power Point Presentation on Magic Realism |
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"Reality is not always probable, or likely." - Jorge Luis Borges
"Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face." |
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WWW Links: Margin (online journal on magical realism) Magical Realism Links from Emory University Definitions of Magical Realism |
The Father of Magical Realism "It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams." Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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"The greatest stories are those that resonate our beginnings and intuit our endings, our mysterious origins and our numinous destinies, and dissolve them both into one."
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"...reality is not only what you see on the surface; it has magical dimensions as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it or color it to make our journey through life less trying."-Isabel Allende, Eva Luna
An Interview with Isabel Allende
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Magic Realism at the Movies The Milagro Beanfield War Babette's Feast Like Water For Chocolate House of the Spirits Edward Scissorhands Erendira Big Fish Chocolat Field of Dreams
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"A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality." Milan Kundera
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Salman Rushdie
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"Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity." "Only in dreams, in poetry, in play”do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are." Julio Cortazar
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