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Article: A Mule on a Piano, Cezanne Hung Upside Down, The Lost Generation Wobbles.(Brief Article)
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- Newsweek International
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- July 19, 1999
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MAGICAL REALITY: Chilean-born novelist Isabel Allende, 57, wrote "The House of the Spirits," "Eva Luna" and several other works of fiction and nonfiction. After a 1973 coup that killed her uncle President Salvador Allende, she fled to Venezuela. Today she lives in San Francisco.
The language of magical realism began with the conquistadors. The Europeans needed new words to describe the lushness and strangeness of this landscape.
The first of the modern magical realists was the Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier. The French surrealists would put a sewing machine on a dissecting table; the absurd objects together would cause an event or a juxtaposition to seem ...