[ilds] Burgess and Durrell (and Cortázar)

[slighcl]

On 2/20/2008 8:42 AM, Production/Licensing wrote:
> In Salman Rushdie's "The Jaguar's Smile", an account of travels in Nicaragua, the author is surprised when  local writers and poets talk to him about the influence of  Durrell.  It struck me, on reading this, that LD was dispensing 'magical realism' before there was a name for it.
Thank you, Steve.  Interested readers can read this reference in /The 
Jaguar Smile/ via GoogleBooks and a search in the text for "Durrell"

    http://books.google.com/books?id=RH1HAkGD9L4C&pg=PA128&dq=%22jaguar+Smile%22+durrell&sig=xo7pQ4Iqxp1exry7CceJwab2M1M


The chance meeting of these New World Durrellians seems strangely 
emblematic.  But more than that, it seems like the lines are scripted, 
the sentiments heard repeated often as habit.  I am at first cheered, 
but then I sense that Rushdie is taking the encounter back to something 
all too familiar.

What are we to make of Rushdie's attitude as a listener?  I think that 
the judgment comes in the spaces between entries.

Charles

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Charles L. Sligh
Department of English
Wake Forest University
slighcl at wfu.edu
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