Nabokov distinguishes this phenomenon himself several times in his essay, Good Readers and Good Writers: "The truth is great novels are great fairy tales" (Vladimir Nabokov, Good Readers and Good Writers). ... It is not to be taken seriously or considered factually correct because great novels are great fairy tales. ... It is a great fairy tale in a world Nabokov has created and constructed through his talent for good writing. A book should not be banned because a narrow-minded or uneducated person cannot distinguish the difference between reality and a fairy tale. ...

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It is at this point that she begins to glimpse a bit of her future, and cleverly, McEwen foretells the tale. Briony had her first, weak intimation that for her now, it could no longer be fairy-tale castles and princesses, but the strangeness of the here and now, of what passed between the people, the ordinary people that she knew , and what power one could have over the other, and how easy it was to get over everything wrong, completely wrong. ... But then this same sentiment can be taken to mean that, as the writer of the tale, she has fabricated the incident, and the fact that she has fo...

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In magical realism you find the transformation of the common, into the awesome and the unreal as a part of everyday reality. According to Literature and Its Time, the term was first used by the German art critic Franz Roh in 1925, it described a manner of painting that "was not a mixture of reality and fantasy but a way to uncover the mystery hidden in ordinary objects". In Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel uses magical realism to combine reality and surreality onto the same plane making it seem as if the unreal happens as a part of everyday life. Laura Esquivel was born in 1951 in...

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Virtually every time Humbert describes a nymphet, he uses such terms as "frail, fragile, supple, silky, or fairy-like", all of which could just easily describe butterflies. ... However, HumbertHumbert, in telling his story, uses puns, literary allusions, and repeating linguistic patterns to render this dark tale in an enchanting form. He is particularly drawn to language of magic and fascination, fairy-tale like imagery and references to "magic potion", "crystal sleep" and other dreamy images. ...

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McEwan began "Enduring Love" by telling us "The beginning is simple to mark". It seems that although it is "simple" to mark the beginning of a novel, finding the end is much harder. This is because McEwan believes there is no such thing as an ending. A conventional book, or play, would have thre...

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