crack authors – Three Percent /College/translation/threepercent a resource for international literature at the URochester Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:38:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Magical Realism and Lazy Writing /College/translation/threepercent/2007/08/06/magical-realism-and-lazy-writing/ /College/translation/threepercent/2007/08/06/magical-realism-and-lazy-writing/#respond Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:01:54 +0000 http://www.wdev.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent-dev/2007/08/06/magical-realism-and-lazy-writing/ This week’s The Hindu has an by Tabish Khair about “The Laziness of Magical Realism” that touches on his belief that writers are using elements of magical realism as “shortcuts to narratability.”

He doesn’t quite come out and directly say this, but the sentiment behind the piece is that magical realism (that of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, or Salman Rushdie) was a non-European, interesting tradition, that has been co-opted by lesser writers and has mutated into something laughable. And I totally agree. That’s partially why I like the so much.

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