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Originally Posted by jadis
In the mid-20th century then?
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Aha! Please consider my post edited like this, jadis:-
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"I read that book way back when "magic realism" was first becoming a popular term to apply to various works of Latin American literature. In England, that began with the paperback translation of "100 years", (1970). I probably read the book in about 1975."
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Originally Posted by Frownland
Marquez could've shown a bit less of Jose Arcadio's massive dong imo. At the very least he could have gone into more detail on what the other dicks in the village were like.
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I think Kurt Vonnegut did this in
Breakfast of Champions, didn't he? At first characters are introduced with quite conventional descriptions, "a tall dark-haired man", but little by little the descriptions become more random, " a woman with an undiagnosed heart condition and a vestigal extra toe" before settling on penis size as the go-to detail to describe the male characters. Very neatly done by KV.
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Originally Posted by Marie Monday
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Me too, I'm happy to say.