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Re:The Inventor of Magical Realism by williamcotton on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @05:25PM (#35880585)
I hear Magical Realism and I immediately think of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez! The creators of Lost definitely read that book… the wrecks of ancient ships deep in the jungle, the ghosts of ancestors haunting the present, the way their community narrative evolves out of the mists of story and time. Amazing stuff.
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Re:The Inventor of Magical Realism by photochemsyn on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @06:17PM (#35881081)
Also, the village of Macondo where the story is set is something quite like the Garden of Eden out of the Book of Genesis, which might qualify as the oldest work of magical realism in existence.

https://www.bartleby.com/essay/Biblical-Allusions-In-Gabriel...

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Re:The Inventor of Magical Realism by 1letterunixname on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @01:23AM (#35883944)
That's my instinct as well. The local university had a GGM month that was more like 2 years during the pandemic.

Rushdie also comes to mind. And I can't help but connect a number of similarities between The Satanic Verses and the TV series Lost.

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Re:The Inventor of Magical Realism by ivorbuk on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @04:12AM (#35884958)
I think there's something in the names of the families and characters that, at least to my younger mind, helped blend some of the magic into a dream-like state of never ending wandering.
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