#magical-realism
7 quotes
“History is never as we imagine it.”
“When the real becomes magical, we call it magical realism.”
“The magic of America lies in the fact that everything is extraordinary.”
“Latin America is the only continent where the real and the fantastic coexist naturally.”
“The baroque is a constant of the human spirit.”
“For many years I have said, following the tradition of Nicolás Guillén , Fernando Ortiz and Alejo Carpentier, that whoever wants to understand Cuba cannot ignore its mestizo condition in which the Hispanic and African components cannot be divided because they have created a cosmovisión that is authentically original. Nancy Morejón Interview (2002) translated from the Spanish by Jason Weiss.”
“Alejo Carpentier was absolutely wonderful. The Kingdom of the Earth is an exquisite little novel”