Because I am Bor-ed

[capri0mni]

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[nexstarman.livejournal.com]

Have you ever read Gabriel Garcia Marquez?

I tried to read <i>One Hundred Years of Solitude</i>, once....

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

And got thouroughly stuck in the denseness of its prose... My mind found it comparable to wading though a swamp.

Personally, I think it's too bad that so people define the genre of Magic Realism by his style, but that's just me....

Re: I tried to read <i>One Hundred Years of Solitude</i>, once....

[nexstarman.livejournal.com]

I first noticed it beside my mum's bed. Then I studied it in 12th grade English, it was a neat course about postcolonial lit. Still a very hard slog. I read it again in first year uni on a politics of the developing world course, and it was a lot better and I took it to heart. It's a damn hard slog, I agree... try again?

Re: I tried to read *One Hundred Years of Solitude*, once....

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Yeah, probably... some day. But only when my belly is full of protein, and I've taken my iron suppliments ;-).

I still stand by my earlier comment, though; I love the genre as a whole, because, from my experience, the real world can seem pretty fantasmagorical more times than not. So Magic Realism seems more realistic than so-called "realistic fiction." Yet when I mention that I like the genre, people keep thinking I must like Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

FWIIW, I think the Mary Poppins books could be considered magic realism...