Magical Realism and the Fantastic

Resolved versus Unresolved Antinomy

Amaryll Beatrice Chanady

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9781000639056
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Edition: 1

Every reader of literature interprets the literary text on the basis of information they have acquired from previous reading, and according to norms they have established, either consciously or not, with regard to a work of literature. In this study, originally published in 1985, the author clarifies the concepts of magical realism and the fantastic, and establishes a series of guidelines that will allow us to distinguish between the two similar yet independent modes. The reader will thus be able to identify the implicit framework upon which the author of the fantastic and of magical realism bases their text.

INDEX

“A Bariloche”, 65–67

Aesthetic motivation, 114

“Afanes, Los”, 53

Aguilera Malta, Demetrio, 111–114

“Almohadón de plumas, El”, 140–141, 149

Ambiguity, 11, 13, 14, 134, 141, 164

Anderson Imbert, Enrique, 2, 20, 27, 28, 29, 47, 48, 56, 60–61, 67, 73–79, 96, 103–104, 133

Asturias, Miguel Angel, 21, 28, 36, 37, 41–44, 46, 56, 157–160, 163

Authentification, 162

Authorial intervention, 98, 124, 156, 158

Authorial mediation, 121

Automatization, 122

“Axolotl”, 114–116, 149

Bal, Mieke, 34

Barbieri, Vicente, 131

Baronian, J.-B., 1

Barrenechea, Ana María, 1

Belevan, Harry, 1, 13

Bellemin-Noël, Jean, 1, 6, 13, 80, 162

Ben-Ur, Lorraine Elena, 27

Bessière, Irène, 12, 13, 15, 16, 57, 148

“Bestiario”, 54–55, 56, 62

Bidimensionality, 7, 9

Bioy Casares, Adolfo, 52–53, 56, 125

Booth, Wayne, 121, 126

Borges, Jorge Luis, 67

Briones, Valbuena, 20

Bulgakov, Mikhail, 21

Caillois, Roger, 3, 5, 11, 76, 161

Carpentier, Alejo, 21, 25, 35, 37, 116–119

“Carta a una señorita en París”, 44–46, 49, 50, 5...