Quixote by Geni Gorani - The Monday Morning Memo

This fascinating 12×18 print of Don Quixote with a ballet-dancing Sancho Panza and an equine that is either Quixote’s horse, Rocinante, or Sancho’s donkey, Dapple, is available on Etsy for only $40. The image on this page is only the top half of the 12×18. You should click over to see it if you want to view the rest of this image by artist Geni Gorani. – Indy Beagle

“Magic realism, chiefly Latin-American narrative strategy that is characterized by the matter-of-fact inclusion of fantastic or mythical elements into seemingly realistic fiction. Although this strategy is known in the literature of many cultures in many ages, the term magic realism is a relatively recent designation, first applied in the 1940s by Cuban novelist Alejo Carpentier, who recognized this characteristic in much Latin-American literature. Some scholars have posited that magic realism is a natural outcome of postcolonial writing, which must make sense of at least two separate realities—the reality of the conquerors as well as that of the conquered. Prominent among the Latin-American magic realists are the Colombian Gabriel García Márquez, the Brazilian Jorge Amado, the Argentines Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortazar, and the Chilean Isabel Allende.

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- The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica

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