Musical Theater and Film

Musicals are also something I'm really familiar with because I love them both theater and film. For example, I love Cabaret, Chicago, Moulin Rouge, Les parapluies de Cherbourg, The Rocky Horrow Picture Show, Singin' in the rain, The Blues Brothers, everything! In any style! Classic, Modern, Rock, anything! I couldn't possibly choose a favorite musical, I can only say that I prefer musicals that actually have a plot, not just an assemble of different musical numbers.

Musicals are indeed kind of magical (even if their subject-matters are rather realistic)... nobody sings that much in real life, huh? They're such a razzle dazzle!

A few years ago, the ISIC brought a rock opera called 'Frankenstein' by José Fors and I must say that's one of the most amazing experiences I've ever experienced in a theater! I was so astonishing! And recently, we went to the theater to see Mozart's 'The Magic Flute'. 

(I think Cabaret is a perfect example of Magic realism because of the Emcee's relationship with the main story)

Children's Literature and Animation.

Animals

Animals have always been a huge part of stories (whether they're for children or for adults). Animals can appear as cute creatures or as wild an evil ones. For example, Winnie-the-Pooh is a lovely, yellow, and fat bear that eats honey! (Who can resist that sort of cuteness?!).. or Oswald, the lucky Rabbit... or Mickey Mouse... who doesn't love those animals?. In contrast, we could read Patricia Highsmith's short stories about pigs killing their owners, and we wouldn't like to be near a pork ever again!

Animals could also be treated as humans with an equally attractive effect. For example, we have Babe, the pig, or Wilbur, the pig, from Charlotte's Web, or Stuart Little, the little human mouse.

I think that no matter what approach you give to animals in a story, they always give a special touch to them! And animals are some of the characters that people always loves and remembers! Tweety, Tom & Jerry, the coyote, the road runner, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Daffy Duck, Box Bunny, Goody, Felix the cat, etc. are always in our hearts!

Children's books

Children's books -usually featuring animals- are some great pieces of literature that people usually underestimates. It's true that children's books may not be a Borges' narration, but they are still great and memorable  Besides Where the Wild Things Are and Winnie-the-Pooh, I would also mention The Little Prince, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Babar, the Elephant as some of the greatest books for kids (at least they were for me! I'll never forget them!)

Magic Realism in Literature

Magic realism is something that I've been in touch a plenty number of times. Gabriel García Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar are some of my favorite writers of the Spanish language. Their stories and novels are not only beautifully written, but pretty astonishing (especially their endings!). In my mind and heart, I treasure Cortázar's short story 'Axolotl', in which the narrator eventually turns into an axolotl (A Mexican salamander that lives in the lake of Xochimilco in Mexico City). It's pretty dazzling!

Axolotl, by Julio Cortázar 

Borges' poems, whether they belong to magic realism or not, are sublime! He's my favorite poet in the whole word... Nobody can reach the perfection that he gives to the Spanish language (I even have a poster of Borges!)