The Magical Realist and the New Weird: Kelly Link

[samedietc]

Despite the grand, grandiose title of this post, I don't have any grand, grandiose pronouncements to make on Kelly Link

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[mrvandyke]

The reason I liked Kelly Link was because I didn't think any of the stories were "more likely a metaphor," but precisely the opposite; they were pointless, even nhialistic fairy-tales cloaked in the trappings of allegory and metaphor. I felt that each story was sort of like a dream and sort of like a folk-tale and you sort of think that if you read it a few more times some meaning would be revealed, but it isn't true. I'm thinking of the story where the family moves to the house and the giant stone animals keep moving around. You keep waiting for it to go somewhere, to resolve into some sort of meaning, but it doesn't. (I can't reference the story right now, as I lent my copy to a friend).