Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology
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Editor: David YoungEditor: Keith Hollaman
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1984-06-01
ISBN: 058228452X
Number of pages: 519
Publisher: Oberlin College Press
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Book Review: Magically Delicious!
Summary: 5 Stars
This anthology is an excellent collection of Fantastic readings. Like all anthologies choices can be questioned: "How could David Young leave this out while including that?" But there is a large enough sampling collected to give anyone interested in Magical Realism his or her fill. I would venture to say that this "one book" would satisfy a marooned bibliophile for quite some time.
My favorites are Vladimir Nabokov's THE VISIT TO THE MUSEUM and Julio Cortazar's AXOLOTL, but the rest of the canon includes other literary giants, making this a collection to return to often. It would be a great text for a grad seminar on Fantastic Literature. Highly recommended.
Summary of Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology
This capacious (520 pages) anthology has selections from the authors you would expect to find, from others you may be less familiar with, and from writers you might not expect to show up in this company. The result is a treasure trove of unusual fiction spanning authors from Gogol and Kafka through Woolf and Nabokov to Calvino, Garcia Marquez, and Barthelme--one of the most exciting anthologies to appear in the last decade. This is a poet's companion, a student's delight, great bedside reading: the kind of book you'd take to a desert island!Anthologies Books
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