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Garcia Marquez's famous magical realism is difficult to capture on the stage, but a great deal of this production does a splendid job of suggesting the atmosphere that would generate such a style. In the first scene, where Tobias (Billy Hulkower) is haunted by the crabs, the actors swirl in an eerie and effective dance. The scene where Petra (Neela Pania), who interprets the smell of roses as a sign from God, dies and is buried, is a knockout, probably the most powerful moment in the production. Petra's death and interment take place against a back-ground...
Most analysts recognize the danger of Serbian action in Kosovo or Macedonia triggering a wider regional war. If that does occur, U.S. interests will be threatened, and involvement will be a must. Today's "realism" is nothing but curmudgeonly short-sightedness...
...modern style" that had pushed Venetian taste away from gold-ground Gothic: Giovanni Bellini and Giorgio da Castelfranco, alias Giorgione. One sees, in the introductory galleries of this show, how Bellini supplied the prototypes for one side of early Titian, his suave construction of pictorial space and pragmatic realism. Then, equally fundamental, there is Giorgione, Titian's exact coeval, but dead "of exhaustion as much as the plague," as one literary mourner obscurely put it, in his early 30s. So little is known about Giorgione's life that the interplay of influence between the two young artists will probably never...
...influence of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Latin American magical realism as a burden for you and other Hispanic writers, something you can't get away from...
...parents, and to make the common seem magical is a way of getting through life with a lot of Latinos. So no, I don't see it as a burden. I think it's a tag that reviewers of limited reading may take. I think actually magical realism has been so overdone that it's really just a technique. What I wanted to do with Fourteen Sisters was to show the richness of the past, an American past but also interceding with this Cuban psyche and also with the Irish take on things, the melancholy which I guess...