The Passion
Background information: 1980’s- Margaret Thatcher
It appears a new culture of extreme individualism. The idea of individual is presented as if
the individual is the only one available. Margaret Thatcher said that there’s no such thing as
society.
UK and USA were fighting to incorporate their culture in the world. It appears the notion of
industrial individual. The first consequence is economical. As a result new markets appeared.
New cultures enter Great Britain from the ex-colonies. For example: “Midnight Children” by
Salman Ruskdie. Post-colonial literature opens an expansion of the market.
•Globalization: the Italian restaurant becomes the first global institution. It appears in
Britain and is British. It was standardized some dishes and they said it was Italian
food.
There’s no longer a matter of race but there’s a matter of sexual orientation. Gay culture
started to be prominent in the 1980’s.
There are two kinds of writings: fantastic and realistic and they become contingent.
•Magic realism is the adaptation of magic elements to realism. These new elements are
implausible in terms of realist narrative.
• Sometimes realist elements are treated as they were marvelous, outstanding, and
fantastic. It resulted in a difamiliarization of reality. It is incorporated eccentric
focalizes and the style also incorporates scientific, historic texts and positivist studies.
It is in the macro where it is inscribed.
•The literalization of metaphors: what we may think it is metaphor it may be literal
truth in the story.
The story of the little boots: The story about the goblins is told by an Irish. Patrick presents
the little boots as a proof. He tries to persuade. The Irish man presents in his narrative two
points of view: positivist, western point of view (religious) and pagan. We don’t question the
bible but we question the goblins. The bible is very incorporated in our culture. The culture
has made it real. You are in a magic place in the moment you question reality. Patrick
questions reality: “I knew I was in a magic place.”
•Dialectical closure
•The rooms: What it is in the rooms are things that contain other things. It is a
way of arranging reality. By arranging reality you also close it.
•The stained-glass windows: give the sense of arranging the light. It puts it in
order.
•Hapsichord: music is a vibration in the air. You move the air and you give it a
pattern. You change reality because you arrange the air.
3”The city of the interior”
