


Others were granted a magical sense of smell, 3 or tumbled out of high-flying aircraft. In more than one, heroes and heroines were born with 1 or sprouted wings 2-a symbol, in Daisy’s term, of their liminality naturally, learning to fly became a metaphor for bold aspiration. What were these authors of reputation doing-grown men and women of the twentieth century-granting supernatural powers to their characters? He never made it all the way through a single one of these irksome confections. Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary had the virtue, at least, of representing a recognisable physical reality, which could not be said for the so-called magical realists she opted to study in her final year.
