Jorge Luis Borges’ Ficciones is a collection of short stories all designed around a particular theme: reality. More specifically, Borges is interested in a magical realism, one in which he can use his literary power to draw insight from the world, by blurring the lines between fantasy and fact. Throughout the seventeen short stories contained ...
At the dawn of the 20th Century a few very brilliant minds were hard at work defining and crafting an entirely new genre of literature, one that looked beyond the realities of our lives and took into accounts the works of up and coming philosophers of the time. Writers like Kafka and later Borges developed ...
The field of artistic expression is a broad one, a world which features as many unique styles as it has artists; literature is no exception. One writer discovers the possibilities of an American bachelor discovering romance and lust while living in modern-day Haiti, and another writer sets a work in the fictional town of Therapoli ...
Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate exudes an aura of rich Mexican culture erupting with historical significance and mystical realism. Esquivel has attained international notoriety for her signature style of writing. Like Water for Chocolate earned Esquivel eleven Ariel awards of the Mexican Academy of Motion Pictures, and shattered cultural barriers by becoming the largest ...
“Magical Realism” is a broadly descriptive term for a movement in fiction originally brought to prominence by the surreal works of Czech author Franz Kafka (1883-1924). In novels of this genre, the frame or surface may be conventionally realistic, but contrasting elements — the supernatural, myths, dreams and fantasy — invade the realism and change ...
I have always been fascinated by books which bring fantastical elements into our everyday world, a genre referred to as magical realism. Following in the footsteps of such well known authors as Alice Hoffman, and Daniel Wallace, authors like Sarah Addison Allen, Audrey Niffenegger and Aimee Bender offer us fresh insight into the human soul ...
Life of Pi by Yann Martel won the Mann Booker Prize in 2002. Despite the acclaim it has received, it seems to be an innately “love it or hate it” book. The story is broken up into three parts, a technique which has been simultaneously lauded as a highly effective literary device and also perceived ...
The pool of science fiction writers is seemingly endless, but some writers receive more attention and awards than others. This list introduces three underrated writers who contribute their own twists to the world of contemporary science fiction and deserve more praise and accolades. In no particular order, they are: Ekaterina Sedia Ekaterina Sedia contributes a ...
