Commericialism

[rephemeral]

I'm bored at work.

I've been researching about magical realism... But the majority of everything has been about Latin America. Guess what I'm writing about. It's not Latin American

So...
I'm copying juneinjuly again. Top five commercials. It's so much easier to pick commercials that I hate since there are so many dumb ones on right now

Comments

[oshima]

Magic realism "is like a polite way of saying you write fantasy," according to Terry Pratchett. Do you agree with that? I think his criticism has more to do with magical realist fiction works (the majority of which seem to be written by Latin American authors, as you no doubt already know XD) so it may not even apply to magical realism in visual/commercial media.

If you're doing a paper on it, could you point up the differences between "magical realism" and "reality + subtle/small fantasy elements", or does the latter pretty much describe the former?

(Really not trying to make you answer an essay question or anything here; I know you have enough on your plate ^^; This is something I've wondered about and would love to have explained if you have a minute.)

[rephemeral]

lol. With all due respect to the author, Terry Pratchett doesn't know what he's talking about exactly

[oshima]

Oh OK! That makes it a lot more clear, thank you :D

I've definitely read lots of stories that fit the bill -- where everything happens in a somewhat normal, real-life way except for this one character has a chat with a pixie one night when he's drunk, and it's never explained or referred to and he never figures out what it was.

I dunno about Mr. Pratchett but Neil Gaiman, who's apparently a friend of his, writes quite a lot of stories that fit this description. A lot of his other stuff is outright fantasy though.

And I have some o' this in the book I'm writing, but in my case narrator is very unreliable to begin with XD