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+Magicians’ Realism
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+:date: 2018-01-03
+:status: draft
+:category: faith
+:tags: harryPotter, review, blogComment, realism
+
+(thoughts after listening to the episode “`Victorian Realism`_” 
+of the BBC’s In Our Time)
+
+Brothers and sister, I am coming to you ashamed, because I have 
+to admit a horrible sin I have committed: I have not particularly 
+enjoyed “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel García Márquez 
+and least of it I enjoyed its magical realism. It seems to me 
+that magical realism is a way how to make a bit boring story 
+spiced up by random flashes of magic. It is a long time when 
+I read the book, so I may forgot a lot from it, and the novel as 
+such is not the point, the magic as used in the book is.  What 
+I mean, is that the magic there seemed to me like something 
+external bolted on the top of the story, not inherent to the 
+universe heroes of the story lived in.
+
+I know that the comparison is rather shocking, but let me 
+contrast magic in the magical realism novel with the one in 
+normal fantasy stories, let’s say “The Lord of the Rings”. Yes, 
+it is an adventure story, but the overall style of story-telling 
+is rather realistic, rather plain. The magic is inherently 
+present in the world, but it is not something which is 
+particularly noticed by the participants in this world. I would 
+say that it is a realistic adventure story from the magical 
+world, rather than a magical story from the normal (one tends to 
+say “Muggle”) world. And I a way prefer the former to the latter.
+
+It seems to me that one more step towards this realism was made 
+in the magical world of books about the Harry Potter universe.
+
+----
+
+The BBC show quoted Henry James saying:
+
+   Realism is what in some shape or form we might encounter, 
+   whereas romanticism is something we will never encounter.
+
+.. _`Victorian Realism`:
+    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00548ks