Strange Characters
Known for their surreal beauty, including unnaturally colored hair
Who is Rosa?
Isabel Allendes first novel
What is In the House of the Spirits?
The hidden town that has characteristics of Magical Realism
What is Spectre?
Used for riding and storing coal
What is the bucket in Kafka's, The Bucket Rider.
This author asserts that a story can only be classified as magical realism if written by an author from the Americas
Who is Carpentier?
An angel adjacent elder
Who is The Very Old Man with Enormous Wings?
Isabel Allende fled this country as a political exile.
Where is Chile?
If you looked into this, you see the way you die
What is the witches glass eye?
An object that eavesdropped on other rooms in the same building
The Radio in John Cheevers, The Enormous Radio
“In magical realism the writer confronts reality and tries to untangle it, to discover what is mysterious in things, in life, in human acts..”
Who is Luis Leal
Accidental Shapeshifter in Bender’s "The Rememberer"
Who is Ben?
The name of Isabel Allendes magazine
What is "Paula"?
Edwards grand gesture to get Sandra
What is planting a field of daffodils?
Objects in Kelly Links "Light" that allowed characters to go anywhere they wished
What are pocket dimensions?
Magical realism is "predominately an art of surprises"
Who is Flores?
This character transformed from a woman into a porcelain doll.
Who is Sonya
Isabel Allende has had three of these
What are marriages?
It was this act that led to Edward finding out the identity of the woman he was in love with
What is playing fetch with the ringmaster?
This object ran away and lived independently even though it is a part of another coherent whole
What is the nose in "The Nose"
Magical Realism is, "a significant decolonizing style, permitting new voices and traditions to be heard within the mainstream"
Who is Faris
This character in the short story “Light” is an alcoholic and has a twin grown from her own shadow.
Who is Lindsey?
Isabel Allende had the honor of carrying the flag at this event
What is the 2006 Turin Olympics?
The names of the conjoined twins
Jing and Ping
The main characters mother in "The Paper Menagerie" made him this animal object as a companion
What is an origami tiger?
This author describes magical realism as “The novelty, therefore, consisted of the amalgamation of realism and fantasy.”
Who is Flores