>isn't it part of that genre called magical realism or something. Lot's of
>South American/Latin writers write in this genre, like Isabelle Allende
>and Borges and Garcia Marquez and such?
Yep. Magical realism, to me, seems like fantasy set in our own world. One
of my favorite genres. I was a huge Isabelle Allende fan until I found out
how she treated one of my best friends -- a struggling photojournalist
(Anita Baca) in South America. She and Allende attended a news conference
and Allende took her seat and plunked all her photo equipment carelessly on
the ground and told Anita to find another seat (Anita had arrived a couple
of hours early to get a seat and only after getting up to get a drink of
water did the late-arriving Allende take her seat). I don't know, but it
seems to me that someone who claims to be a friend to "regular folk" and
women's rights and who also been the victim of political changes ought to
me a bit more congenial. Anita, who BTW turned me on to her, said Allende
believed she had a right to her seat simply because of who she was.
Anyway, as much as I like her stories/writing I won't be buying any more of
her books. She definitely isn't the person who I thought she was.
>
>On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, Karen A. Ketcham wrote:
>
>> Hi I'm Karen.
>> has anyone read Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel? the
>> author has acknowledged an interviewer's opinion of this work to be
>> science fiction. any comments?
>>
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