[ilds] magical realism

[william godshalk]

>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.


Mark Helprin suggests that Homer used magical realism. The practice 
was around long before the theory.

Bill
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