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Exposition in magical realism?
I’ve only read a couple books in the genre: the two most obvious ones, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and The House of the Spirits, and I have been wondering this for a while now. Why do these books tend to favor exposition, rather than the typical (at least in North America) way of writing, that old adage of “show don’t tell”? It doesn’t turn me off, not even a little bit—in fact, it helps me to sink deep into the story, rather than being asked to imagine every single action every character is taking (i’m pretty sure I have aphantasia, so I don’t really have a mind’s eye).
So yeah, that’s my question: what’s that about? How did that come to take root?
#entertainment
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I’ve only read a couple books in the genre: the two most obvious ones, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and The House of the Spirits, and I have been wondering this for a while now. Why do these books tend to favor exposition, rather than the typical (at least in North America) way of writing, that old adage of “show don’t tell”? It doesn’t turn me off, not even a little bit—in fact, it helps me to sink deep into the story, rather than being asked to imagine every single action every character is taking (i’m pretty sure I have aphantasia, so I don’t really have a mind’s eye).
So yeah, that’s my question: what’s that about? How did that come to take root?
#entertainment
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