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  Dark, male authored ,magical realist?  Shika at 12:14 on 22 July 2009
 

Hi I'm looking for suggestions of holiday reads in the above 'genre' for a friend. Can you help? Cheers. S
  Re: Dark, male authored ,magical realist?  Account Closed at 12:33 on 22 July 2009
 

Why not let them try Lisey's Story by Stephen King? I really enjoyed it and it seems to tick all the relevant boxes.

JB
  Re: Dark, male authored ,magical realist?  Shika at 13:06 on 22 July 2009
 

Will do. Thanks. S
  Re: Dark, male authored ,magical realist?  cherys at 18:29 on 22 July 2009
 

Anything by Marquez or Borges.
Or something not exactly magic realist but along those lines like The Beach by Alex Garland or The Magus by John Fowles.
Or Paul Auster - In The Country Of Last Things
Kafka - Metamorphosis
Anything by Russell Hoban

  Re: Dark, male authored ,magical realist?  Account Closed at 15:07 on 23 July 2009
 

The Book of Lost Things - John Connelly?

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Love, love, love Metamorphosis.

  Re: Dark, male authored ,magical realist?  Traveller at 00:11 on 26 July 2009
 

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Marquez
Midnight's Children, Rushdie
Tin Drum, Gunther Grass


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By the way Metamorphosis is not an example of magical realism.
  Re: Dark, male authored ,magical realist?  EmmaD at 10:46 on 26 July 2009
 

Robertson Davies.

But apart from that, I keep seeing the title of this thread and thinking it's the readerly equivalent of 'tall, dark and handsome'...

Emma
  Re: Dark, male authored ,magical realist?  Account Closed at 09:14 on 30 July 2009
 

Actually, Kafka's Metamorphosis is a classic example of magical realism. Everything in the story, apart from the eponymous metamorphosis is realistic and described as such. Gregor's transformation is thus highlighted, stark against a very dreary and 'actual' background. As such, the story works fine as a piece of magical realism and this is an aceepted literary fact by scholars throughout the world.

JB



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Magical realism as a term relates to stories that, at their core, have a relationship between the real and the 'fantastic'.