MR Definitions
Focuses on form and style technique rather than topics, and believes MR to be derived from Kafka.
Who is Angel Flores?
The daughter of Clara and Esteban Trueba, who marries Frenchman Jean de Satigny after discovering herself to be pregnant.
Who is Blanca Trueba?
“'Land is something one should never sell. It’s the only thing that’s left when everything else is gone.'”
Who is Esteban Trueba?
“‘Whoever takes care of them has to stay here. You can’t leave. They don’t let you… Ma was stuck here until she had me. And then when I was old enough, I took over”’
What is The Summer People by Kelly Link?
The director of Big Fish.
Who is Tim Burton?
Believes MR works to “confront reality and tries to untangle it, to discover what is mysterious in things, in life, in human acts”
Who is Luis Leal?
An outspoken socialist and the organizer of student protests, who is representative of the working classes fight for equality.
Who is Miguel?
“‘If the hens can overcome the fox, what about human beings?’”
Who is Pedro Tercero Garcia?
“Did he really want the warm room, so cozily appointed with heirlooms, transformed into a lair, where he might, of course, be able to creep, unimpeded, in any direction, though forgetting his human past swiftly and totally?”
What is The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka?
A symbol of a “heavenly place.”
What is Spectre?
Believes MR is “transforming the everyday and common into the exceptional and awesome”
Who is Angel Flores?
One of the oldest residents of Tres Marias, who served as its unofficial foreman during Esteban Trueba’s absence from the hacienda.
Who is Pedro Segundo?
"He did not love himself and perhaps for that reason felt that he did not deserve the love of others."
Who is Jaime?
“At the final moment it pained them to return him to the waters as an orphan and they chose a father and mother from among the best people, and aunts and uncles and cousins, so that through him all the inhabitants of the village became kinsmen.”
What is the Handsomest Drowned Man by Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
A representation of how society casts off transgressive femininity. Also represents prophecy and dark magic.
Who is the Witch?
Acknowledges that MR has a “significant decolonizing style, permitting new voices and traditions to be heard within the mainstream”.
Who is Wendy Faris?
A priest with revolutionary ideas who is known for spreading ideas of socialism and labor unions.
Who is Father Jose Dulce Maria?
“'You don’t know the thoughts that can run through the mind of a single woman, Father, a virgin who has never been with a man, not for any lack of opportunities but because God sent my mother a protracted illness and I had to be her nurse.'”
Who is Ferula?
“It’s weird: our grief is cyclical, synched with the lunar cycles. It accordions out as the moon slivers away. On new-moon nights, it rises with the tide.”
What is Haunting Olivia by Karen Russell?
“‘Not very exciting, is it? Well, I suppose if I had to choose between the true version and the elaborate one...I would choose the fancier one.’”
Who is Dr. Bennett?
“After all, what is the entire history of America if not a chronicle of the marvelous real?"
Who is Alejo Carpentier?
A peasant of Tres Marias and the grandmother of Esteban Garcia, who is thrown out of Esteban Trueba’s home when she becomes pregnant.
Who is Pancha Garcia?
“'But it doesn’t help the poor. They don’t need charity; they need justice.'”
Who is Clara?
"When s/he awoke, the dinosaur was still there."
What is The Dinosaur by Augusto Monterroso?
“You were a big fish in a small pond, but this here is the ocean and you’re drownin'”
Who is Amos Calloway, or the circus master?