poetry, prose also
2006-12-17 21:57:49 · 5 answers · asked by kranthi nee 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The term is applied most often and most consistently to Latin American writers, such as Isabel Allende, Jorge Amado, Louis de Bernières, Jorge Luis Borges, Laura Esquivel, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa. Probably the most popular and most fun for folks new to the genre would be Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate.
But I think the very best representative of the style is Salmon Rushdie, especially his Midnight Children. As with other writers, his magic realism involves unexplained fantastical events which are accepted as realistic by the characters. These include happenings which are exaggerated, coincidental, and implausible as well as those that are outright fantastic or miraculous. The story focuses on the children who were born at midnight on the day of India's independence. All of them were given a magical property. Throughout the novel, strange and mysterious adventures take place. For example, the main character at one point forgets everything about his past. Then when he loses his way later, a poisonous snake bites him and kills his forgetfulness instead of killing him.
2006-12-21 11:07:46 · answer #1 · answered by bfrank 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Colombian Nobel-Prize winner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (all his works) is definitely the foremost Father of the genre, followed by the Chilean-American Isabel Allende (The House of the Spirits, City of Beasts, Paula, and Daughter of Fortune) and the Nigerian, Ben Okri (Famished Road, Songs of Enchantment, Astonishing the Gods, Incidents at the Shrine etc).
Those are my most favorite authentic adherents to the genre. There are a couple pretenders on at Barnes&Noble but let not the glitter of gold and silver on the blurb mislead you. Be a Bassanio for cheap lead and win the coveted golden kiss!!
2006-12-18 00:34:54 · answer #2 · answered by ari-pup 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Orson Scott Card, Alvin Maker series
Charles de Lint, Newford series
J. Gregory Keyes, Age of Unreason series
Nina Kiriki Hoffman, A Fistful of Sky
2006-12-18 01:49:57 · answer #3 · answered by Melanie D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jorge Amado for 'Dona Flor and her Two Husbands'. I've read Garcia-Marquez's '100 Years of Solitude' and 'Love in the Time of Cholera'. Both good books; BUT I kept 'Dona Flor...'
2006-12-17 22:30:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
P.T. Bonewitz - Real Magic
For poetry and prose, I don't have an answer for you, there, sorry.
2006-12-17 22:10:08 · answer #5 · answered by Namon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋