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Magic Realism: The Genesis
1 In the autumn of 1967, the novelists Carlos Fuentes and Mario Vargas Llosa were drinking in a London pub. The conversation paused on Edmund Wilson’s book of portraits from the American Civil War,...
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In my copy from school of En Attendant Godot there are the usual humiliating marginalia, in manic capitals: ORIGINAL SIN, CIRCULARITY, IRONY. These notes, I note, get sparser as the play continues. At...
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Between 1959 and 1961 Muriel Spark published four novels: Memento Mori, The Ballad of Peckham Rye, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The Girls of Slender Means. These novels are great novels; they...
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