Magical Realism
D.A.N. Jones, 1 August 1985
The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende, translated by Magda Bogin.
Cape, 368 pp., £8.95, July 1985,0 224 02231 8 Show More
by Isabel Allende, translated by Magda Bogin.
Cape, 368 pp., £8.95, July 1985,
Careful with the Sharks
by Constantine Phipps.
Cape, 216 pp., £8.95, May 1985,9780224023085 Show More
by Constantine Phipps.
Cape, 216 pp., £8.95, May 1985,
“... the vogue-word: but this seems to me a farrago of fantasy-triggers. I was astonished when Marina Warner asserted on television that the book ‘gives you an astonishing understanding of a political situation’. On the same day, Marilyn Butler was equally effusive on Radio 3 and Hermione Lee assured us in the Observer that the author has ‘impeccably heroic ... ”