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Maximilian Siddell's avatar

Would a story that presents a more animistic, preenlightenment worldview than is often found in modern fiction be considered fabulism?

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Mark Hannam's avatar

I'm very happy to see Magical Realism come up in this series! I was blown away when I read One Hundred Years of Solitude -- what a performance! I like the idea of a spectrum from simile to metaphor to "fabule", although I wonder if it makes it sound too easy. Garcia Marquez talked about it as an attitude, or *more* than an attitude: you don't just tell the fantasy, you have to *believe* the fantasy. In fantasy you say, "Imagine a world." In magical realism you say, "This *is* the world!" What an audacious thing to do.

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