Stanley Elkin's The Magic Kingdom | Techniques
The Magic Kingdom is among Elkin's less technically innovative novels, but it is brilliantly constructed around the paradox of a commercial enterprise called a "magic kingdom" in which little that we can call magic really happens, and in which the real magic is finally something we need to travel inward, not outward, to discover. Unlike his typical books, however, this is divided among the narratives concerning many of the care-givers as well as the eight dying children.
He does, moreover, interpose two distinctive narrative techniques in a book rich in purple passages,...
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