From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
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>.Robert Scholes's terminology, call fabulations,
>>>and it's a category which includes such non-cult names as Borges, Garcia
>>>Marquez, Grass etc. I don't like the term myself, because it implies that
>>>such writings are fables, ie a kind of allegory, reducible to a single
>>>meaning.
"magic realism" springs to mind -- it's mostly been applied to Marquez, but
could apply equally to Borges (I'm not so sure about Grass). Originally
from plastic art (Paula Rega? earlier?) and could take in Alastair Gray's
+Lanark+.
Robin Hamilton
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