Jon (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} jbmurray) wrote,@ 2006-02-01 00:28:00 |
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magic
OK, this is a sad couple of points to be making, but...
Listening to the Today programme, and a piece on Gabriel García Márquez suggested that the Colombian is "often known as the father of magica realism."
Um, no, not really.
And for what it's worth, even google suggests that the most common wearer of that crown is Miguel Angel Asturias.
(Me, if I had to choose I'd plump for one of either Giorgio di Chirico or Alejo Carpentier.)
And then a brief interview with Will Self, who tried to sound sophisticated, but just sounded stupid when he couldn't pronounce Maria Vargas Llosa's name. Hell, either say "Llosa" as if it were an English word, or say it in one of the various ways it is pronounced in Spanish, but don't invent your very own pronunciation!
OK, this is a sad couple of points to be making, but...
Listening to the Today programme, and a piece on Gabriel García Márquez suggested that the Colombian is "often known as the father of magica realism."
Um, no, not really.
And for what it's worth, even google suggests that the most common wearer of that crown is Miguel Angel Asturias.
(Me, if I had to choose I'd plump for one of either Giorgio di Chirico or Alejo Carpentier.)
And then a brief interview with Will Self, who tried to sound sophisticated, but just sounded stupid when he couldn't pronounce Maria Vargas Llosa's name. Hell, either say "Llosa" as if it were an English word, or say it in one of the various ways it is pronounced in Spanish, but don't invent your very own pronunciation!
