{"id":4967,"date":"2011-08-11T10:03:37","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T15:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=4967"},"modified":"2011-08-11T10:05:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T15:05:13","slug":"the-unknown-archmage-of-magic-realism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/?p=4967","title":{"rendered":"The Unknown Archmage of Magic Realism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Astradeni.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Astradeni.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Astradeni\" width=\"240\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Astradeni.jpg 240w, https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Astradeni-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>Between long hours at the lab and a bout of lingering illness, I have let the blog go quiet for a while.<\/p>\n<p>However, I haven&#8217;t been totally inactive.  A year ago, I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starshipreckless.com\/blog\/?p=1811\">an essay<\/a> about the fact that writers feel free to use Hellenic contexts (myths, history, location), blithely assuming they know my culture well enough to do so convincingly.  In that essay, I also stated that Hell\u00e1s may be home to the best magic realist alive right now: Evgen\u00eda Fak\u00ednou.  As a follow-up, I wrote a brief introduction to her work, which <a href=\"http:\/\/sffportal.net\/2011\/08\/evgenia-fakinou-the-unknown-archmage-of-magic-realism\/#more-2612\">appeared today<\/a> at the SFF Portal helmed by Val Grimm.  Here is the conclusion:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fak\u00ednou\u2019s books are full of vision quests, awakenings, boundary crossings. All have open endings, with their protagonists poised at thresholds on the last page. At the same time, they make their readers whole by reclaiming a past that might have led to an alternative future. Fak\u00ednou is a windwalker, a weaver of spider silk. I\u2019m sorry she is not world-famous, but even sorrier for the dreamers who will never get a chance to lose \u2013 and find \u2013 themselves in her work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Image:<\/strong> <em>Astradhen\u00ed<\/em> (Starbinder), Evgen\u00eda Fak\u00ednou&#8217;s first novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between long hours at the lab and a bout of lingering illness, I have let the blog go quiet for a while. However, I haven&#8217;t been totally inactive. A year ago, I wrote an essay about the fact that writers feel free to use Hellenic contexts (myths, history, location), blithely assuming they know my culture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology-and-culture","category-history","category-writing-and-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starshipnivan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}