Re: RARA-AVIS: Realistically realistic

From: Robert Elkin ( rictusaporia@yahoo.com)
Date: 23 Feb 2006


Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentinian writer & associate of Borges.

--- Michael Robison < miker_zspider@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Mario wrote:
>
> All the PI needs is a good story. Who cares if it's
> realistically realistic? As Chandler and others have
> pointed out, all that matters is that the story be
> psychologically realistic. Many outrageously
> fantastic
> stories (entire genrefuls of them, in fact) are
> realistic in this sense. Is Shakespeare
> realistically
> realistic? Cervantes? Kafka? Bradbury? Borges? Bioy?
> Calvino?
>
> ************
> I agree, especially with the psychological part.
> That
> part I've got to buy in to. If a character's
> actions
> don't add up, then I'm not satisfied.
>
> In his once-a-decade interview, Cormac McCarthy was
> asked why he wrote in a historically inaccurate
> flavor
> of death penalty for Texas in NO COUNTRY FOR OLD
> MEN.
> He smiled and said he was just trying to keep the
> readers on their toes. Bottom line, I think he was
> taking a gentle shot at those expecting his fiction
> to
> be realistically realistic.
>
> And who the hell is Bioy?
>
> miker
>
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