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An 8 page paper which examines how intertextuality, as magical realism, works as a way of presenting contemporary society in Eduardo Garcia Aguilar’s novel Luminous Cities. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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presentation of many short stories that are clearly intertwined to some extent. Aguilars style of writing is very intertextual, to the point wherein it becomes a subtle form of Magical
Realism, which may come as little surprise considering his origins of being born in Colombia and his sense of understanding the world through his own endeavors. He "studied political economy
at the University of Paris, then moved to Mexico City where he eventually became assistant director of the press agency, Agence France-Presse. He currently lives in Paris" (Margin). It
is a compilation of stories, which ultimately reads like a novel, that pits humanity against authority, love against violence and inanimate surroundings. It is a compilation that sets history with
displacement. The following paper examines how Aguilar uses this technique, of intertextuality, in writing to express, and comment on, the contemporary world. Imagery in Aguilars Luminous Cities
As mentioned, there is a form of intertextuality, in relationship to literature, wherein the language becomes a subtle form of Magical Realism and in many ways this appears to be
just what Aguilar has done as he offers imagery that is a connection of the literary and historical and fantasy. In better understanding this concept, and thus understanding something intriguing
about Aguilars work, one author notes the following in relationship to intertextuality: "The concept of intertexuality thus dramatically blurs the outlines of the book, dispersing its image of totality into
an unbounded, illimitable tissue of connections and associations, paraphrases and fragments, texts and con-texts. For many hypertext authors and theorists, intertextuality provides an apt description of the kind of textual
space which they....find themselves weaving" (Keep; McLaughlin; Parmar, 2000). Clearly the characters in the stories of Aguilar are constantly weaving, and intertwining reality, magical realities, and the conditions of
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