Category Archives: Magical realism

Nonsecular: William Faulkner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Toni Morrison

Posted on April 19, 2014 by wcd2

April 19, 2014 Toni Morrison says in a Paris Review interview: “I always get up and make a cup of coffee while it is still dark—it must be dark—and then I drink the coffee and watch the light come.”   … Continue reading →

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Brazil: Karen Tei Yamashita, Elizabeth Bishop

Posted on April 24, 2013 by wcd2

April 24, 2013 Both write about human efforts that come to nothing.   Bishop’s Manuelzinho begins bravely, planting gardens that ravish the eye: beds of  cabbages edged with red carnations, lettuces with alyssum.   But then “silver umbrella ants arrive,/ or it … Continue reading →

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