Re: The Super thread of literature, art, music, life, and the universe in general
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Sawfish (IP Logged)
Date: 9 February, 2021 01:11PM
This is really interesting.
Tin Drum, being first person, can be attributed to unreliable POV--the refusal to age, the ability to break glass, the drumming, his "putative father", all of this is what the POV sees and tells us, and we can infer that almost none of this exists in actuality, and we're being given a Kashubian history lesson by an insane dwarf.
I mean, that's how I see it, usually.
So I've convinced myself: it's not magical realism.
Winter's Tale, I was unsure it's a parallel NYC, but I could be forgetting. Besides, I read it only once (was good for one go-around,only). I took it to be a fabulous NYC, what with watermen, Short Tails, magic horses, etc. All of these existed (except the horse, I assume) in some form in actuality. Gangs of New York was all about the sorts of gangs very much like the Short Tails. But not from a comic perspective.
--Sawfish
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