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7111521 No.7111521 [Reply] [Original]

>reading magical realism book
>halfway through
>can't figure out what the magical bits are an allegory for

Is there a worse feel?

>> No.7111534

Oh no, fuck me. Does this mean that Invisible cities was full of metaphors that were lost on me?

I thought it was just about a bunch of cool places.

>> No.7111543

>>7111534

I think you're missing the point by trying to find metaphors for every single city. It's more productive to find metaphors in the dialogues between Kublai Khan and Marco Polo.

>> No.7111547

>>7111534
>tfw I was about to post something similar to this
I thought the magic in magical realism was just to add an edge and make the story more fun.

>> No.7111558
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7111558

>reading book from foreign country whose history you know nothing of
>tfw you don't know if the story is commenting on the history or if there are parallels or what

>> No.7111571

>>7111534

Are you joking? Serious authors don't put in sci-fi / magic just for the fun of it! "Fun" is as pleb as you can get. It's always representing something super serious.

>> No.7111603

>>7111571
>magical realism
>serious

>> No.7111615

>>7111571
Magical realism is just meant to keep readers interested. Love in the Time of Cholera would have been 80% worse without it.