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To: Grainne who wrote (24819)	9/6/1998 1:55:00 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

Magic realism- some say Virginia Woolf's Orlando is a forerunner (it is marvelous btw). Latin American magic realists include Gabriel Garcia Marquez(100 years of solitude- magnificent), Isabelle Allende, Alejo Carpentier-Like Water for Chocolat, which you may have read, is magic realism. It is a combination of real life with the fabulous richness of the inner imagination, heavily influenced by the miraculous nature of religion, specifically the Catholic religion as it is practiced in Latin America.

To: Grainne who wrote (24819)	9/6/1998 11:21:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 108807

Christine, You don't really need to understand the sources that Borges uses to appreciate the work, which is first and foremost imaginative. His treatments of heresy are always fictional, sometimes extravagantly so, and always sympathetic to the heretic, or at least to the genesis of heresy, which usually lies simply in imagination. Religious authority understands this, which is why it views imagination with such suspicion. Some of the stories are difficult. Look for one like "The Circular Ruins" (Penni, who likes dreams, would appreciate that one as well), or, to dive straight into the heresies, "Three Versions of Judas". Garcia Marquez' "100 Years of Solitude" is probably the quintessential work of the magic realist movement, but some of his stories are equally good. My own favorite (perhaps because of my 3rd world years) is "Big Mama's Funeral"; there is another I can particularly recommend, but I've forgotten the title, though I can recite the story almost verbatim. I'll dig it out and pass it on, if you like. Steve