Lesson 20

Question SA-1. Here is the text reference (p. 198/last and 204/last 2)

In this period Latin American art and literature was strongly influenced by European Surrealism, which was blended with local currents of the fantastic and the imaginatively "real but unreal". Surrealism stressed the world of dreams, of imagination, and of the hidden psychological currents in each person's inner self. These features appealed to many writers and painters in Latin America who saw it as an outlet for their creativity. This emphasis on surrealism and the fantastic was the basis for the "magic realism" which has been so influential in recent years.

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Without losing a second La Tatuana did what the Master said: she drew the boat, she closed her eyes and climbed in, the boat began to move, and she escaped from the prison and from death.

And the next day, the morning of the execution, the constables found in the jail cell a dried tree that had in its branches two or three almond flowers, still pink.