Magical realism BTFO

>Regarding his own literary constraints when writing novels, McCarthy said he is "not a fan of some of the Latin American writers, magical realism. You know, it's hard enough to get people to believe what you're telling them without making it impossible. It has to be vaguely plausible."
Is he right?

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have sex

>anglos are autistic
More news at 9

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>writes Blood Meridian
>believes this
He’s playing a trick on us

>You know, it's hard enough to get people to believe what you're telling them without making it impossible. It has to be vaguely plausible
Magical realism is vaguely plausible, hence the realism part. It's based on reality but it has some fantastic elements. It's not 100% fantasy. I like Cormac but this sounds like a typical example of old man yells at cloud.

Blood Meridian isn't le epic magical realism le talking reddit cat shit.

it has magical gypsies and indians that are close to supernatural lmao

he's american

American was an Anglo colony.

He's fundamentally wrong because he implies plausability is what literature is all about. Fantasy is perhaps the cornerstone of literature. Borges himself said in an interview: "I think fantastic literature is THE literature, that is, literature started with myths, cosmogonies. It didn't start with realism. Realism is in reality, a late invention, I would say. But I think literature started being fantastic. Don Quixote for example, I don't know if it's a realist book or a fantastic book, I would say it's both, and there lies its greatness."

>Cormac
>McCarthy
>Anglo

one of these things is not like the others

He may not be an ancient Anglo-Saxon man but he's a white English speaker. That's what Anglo means these days.

>hates Proust
>hates magical realism
Next interviewer should ask McCarthy what he likes.

He likes Moby-Dick and Faulkner I think. Not sure if he likes Pinecone.

Faulkner and Melville, probably.

No, fuck off. Nabokov is Anglo by your definition.
I take it to mean central English-centric culture. Anglophiles and the like

Nabokov wasn't a native English speaker, though. So he's disqualified by definition. Have you watched his interviews? lmao

>anglos being bad writers without soul

Shock imagined

>that scene where Ahab holds up his harpoon and blue lightning crackles from it while he Quakerages on the fo'castle after a cabal of mystical Persians spring from hiding in the deepest hold, daggers ready, unseen until that precise time, to continue their eternal war against the enemy of Zoroaster
>vaguely plausible

implausible =/= impossible

implausible in a real world context =/= implausible in a book universe context

Corncob stole these ideas from Garcia Marquez.

this is comical coming from a guy who basically wrote a preposterous violent fantasy

lol this. Reading Blood Meridian in some bits I thought "Why does he steal from García Márquez if he hates him so much?"

Same. What Márquez did using solitude, Cormac tried to repeat with violence.

BM is unlike any of his other books.

What exactly was there in Blood Meridian that was magical or fantastical?

I don't remember anything of the sort.

>supernatural hordes of natives
>magical gypsies who don't even know the tarot deck
>tree of dead babies
>the judge

Only one of those that was possibly supernatural is the Judge.

It’s very similar to Child of God

Marquez's use of magical realism stems from stories that his grandmother used to tell him as a child in Colombia. Fantastical and magical elements that apparently happened in everyday life were taken as a completely normal occurrences, which is what Marquez was trying to capture in One Hundred Years of Solitude. To people like his grandmother, those stories were plausible.

>supernatural hordes of natives
The only reason that they were surprised by the first group of natives is because the cowpokes and ranchers who were trying to escape obscured the horde. Other than that there is no supernatural aspect to the Indians. In fact, they fall to one of the nearest to supernatural scenes I remember, when the Judge makes gunpowder. And even then, while it is fantastical that is grounded in reality.

>You know, it's hard enough to get people to believe what you're telling them without making it impossible.
I have not found this to be the case whatsoever. Are most people that unimaginative?

Corncob BTFO

corncob thinks his demographic is a bunch of NPCs when in fact you need quite the imagination to picture BM in your head.

How so?

Both revolve around men living outside of the dominion of civilization, only venturing back from the wilderness to terrorize local populations.

Both frequently use conflicts of man vs nature or man vs man for excitement/further plot, but the real and substantial conflicts are man vs self or man vs fate as the main characters continually bear the weight of previous events, and eventually succumb to depravity or regain control of their humanity/destiny (depending on your interpretation of the ending)

there’s a few more but those are the big ones I think

McCarthy's entire body of work is worth less than a single Borges short story.

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Let's not go that far, both have their literary merits.

I see, thanks.

Never been convinced that novelists have the best judgement of other novelists. They have too much skin in the game.

No

this

The Judge, my good sir. The way he is presented, he is practically a super-being.

>Many years later in the shade under the ramada in the vacancy of the Texas heat as he faced the firing squad outside the hacienda whereupon he had crucified an infant Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember with quiet finitude that distant afternoon of man's great autistic dark when his father who was a man of the law and its letters apart from his cartel affiliations took him the child the boy that he was to discover ice senor per favore.

You're a retard and havent read McCarthy. He obviously knows that

I've read his entire body of work (novels only, haven't read his meme plays). But if he knows that, then why would he say the shit in the OP? Especially considering BM kinda falls on the fantastic or at least surreal territory at times. Am I suppose to believe a tree of dead babies? A supernatural pale man that's basically the devil?

McCarthy is obviously a talented writer but he often embarrasses himself with statements like this. Actual linguists were mortified by his article about the origins of language.

>article about the origins of language
You gotta summary about how shit it was?

Actual linguists are mostly retards

Read books.

racist cracka

>caring about academic opinion
fuck your linguists

I want her to sit on my face

This. Who defines what's "implausible"? If you're a practicing Catholic and write a story that has, like, a stigmata or an apparition in it, would that fit McCarthy's definition of plausible fiction, since according to the author these are things that can really happen?

What's this product of incest talking about? I suppose that a story about a father and his bitch-made son is more believable, when they survive in the post-apocalyptic(!) wilderness long enough for the climax of the book to come, with the cuckolded dad's death? Give me a fucking break.

t. Gabriel García McCarthy lmao

>her

yeah i can barely trust any of this pics posted on her are of actually biological females. i fear there lurks a trap around below every scroll now.