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The prologue to the novel is Carpentier's most often quoted text, in which he coins the term lo real maravilloso ("marvellous reality") in reference to seemingly miraculous occurrences in Latin America.
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Although Nicolas Cage gives a marvellous sense of reality to the often hilarious scenes between the twins, one suspects or infers that Donald is Charlie's extrovert, go-getting doppelgänger.
His conception of 'marvellous reality' revolves around the natural fantastic qualities of Latin America and the Caribbean, as opposed to the overly forced and cliché efforts by European surrealists to portray magical occurrences.
The Dutch artist "was able to be almost literal and the way he put on the paint gives you a marvellous vision of the reality of things".
There's an additional tweak of reality: Sheil, a marvellous actress with a CV of terrific microbudget productions, is presented, in Greene's scenario, as having a wide expanse of time to visit libraries, shops and relevant locations in Sarasota.
Poems in YA are often useful indicators in finding out more about the characters or the plot of the book itself, and always helps to bring a little bit of reality into these marvellous fictional worlds.
But Hrabal saw that the same technique could be adapted to describe another version of the marvellous; another way in which reality could swiftly overtake a character, and demonstrate his laughability.
I also remember being filled with wonder at the way words could be so precise and patient, illustrating, as they progressed, what even the boy I was then somehow knew: that there exists at once a tragic and marvellous distance between consciousness and reality.
It would of course be marvellous to find a route to make these plans reality".
For a great artist of reality like Fabritius can show us that life is more marvellous than fiction.
If the Games of last summer were a marvellous dream, the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park must turn its promises into a lasting reality.
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