Magical Realism Test #1
Who is Franz Roh - correct answer-Franz Roh, was a German historian, photographer, and
art critic. He is perhaps best known for his 1925 book Nach Expressionismus: Magischer
Realismus
What term did Franz Roh coin - correct answer-"Magischer Realismus" Or Magical Realsim
Did Franz Roh literally believe in Magic? - correct answer-believed the ordinary objects of
everyday could be seen as strange or fantastic, but not literally "magical"
Franz Roh did not write because of - correct answer-his positive stance on modern art put
him at odds with the Nazi government at their assumption of power in 1933. He was
forbidden to write and was briefly jailed.
De Chirico and George Grosz were both. - correct answer-European magical realists artists.
Where was magical realism mostly art and where was it mostly literature? - correct
answer-Art= Europe (a lot of Germany) Lit = South America
How did Magical Realism physical art turn into Literature - correct answer-Fritz Roh's 1925
essay made its way across the Atlantic in translation, and was taken on by Latin American
writers to describe a literary form
What is Marvelous to Carpentier? - correct answer-Everything strange, everything amazing,
everything that eludes established norms is marvelous..."
Is Extraordinary beautiful or ugly according to Carpentier? - correct answer-The
extraordinary is ...neither beautiful nor ugly... it is amazing because it is strange.
Angel Flores Magical Realism Def - correct answer-In magical realism we find the
transformation of the common and the everyday into the awesome and the unreal.
What is Fait Accompli - correct answer-literally "accomplished fact"
What an author presents as "facts" of his or her world to the reader
Luis Leal Magical Realism Def - correct answer-writer confronts reality and tries to untangle
it, to discover what is mysterious in things, in life, in human acts.
Garcia Marquez believes Magical Realism pieces are Blank to regular reality books. - correct
answer-Garcia Marquez suggests that the magic text is, paradoxically, more realistic than
the realist text."
Garcia Marquez believes that disproportion is ... - correct answer-is part of our reality too.
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