Lammasinimene, liblikmees ja karunaine: maagilisest realismist eesti kirjanduse näitel
Sheep Man, Butterfly Man and Bear Woman: on Magical Realism on the Example of Estonian Literature

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the essence of magical realist fiction, analysing its relations with fantasy and postmodernist writing and providing an insight into the poetics of the magical-realist works of some Estonian authors. Magical realism may be regarded as a special narrative strategy, a hybrid genre interweaving two textual spaces – the realist and the mystical worlds of fiction. There is a remarkable connection between magical realism and postmodernist poetics, as neither attempts to create a transcendental illusion of the validity, integrity and representability of the reality. Instead, both types of fiction are discovering and transcending borders, seeking differences, new rules and categories. Karl Rumor in his Krutsifiks ("Crucifix"), drawing on Latin-American folklore and religious beliefs, mainly applies the poetics of the grotesque. Härra Pauli kroonikad ("The Chronicles of Mr. Paul") and Artur Sandmani lugu ("Arthur Sandman's Story") by Mehis Heinsaar are based on the mystical-fantastic method of text creation. Nikolai Baturin's style of representation in his novels Karu süda ("The Heart of the Bear") and Kentaur ("Centaur") could be called mythical-animistic.

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