Handsomest+Drowned+Man

Magical Realism--We recognize the world, although now--not only because we have emerged from a dream--we look on it with new eyes. We are offered a new style that is thoroughly of this world, that celebrates the mundane. This new world of objects is still alien to the current idea of Realism. It employs various techniques that endow all things with a deeper meaning and reveal mysteries that always threaten the secure tranquility of simple and ingenuous things. This [art offers a] calm admiration of the magic of being, of the discovery that things already have their own faces, [this] means that the ground in which the most diverse ideas in the world can take root has been reconquered--albeit in new ways. For the new art it is a question of representing before our eyes, in an intuitive way, the fact, the interior figure, of the exterior world. (Franz Roh, Magic Realism: Post-Expressionism (1925).//Magical Realism.// Ed. L. P. Zamora and W. B. Faris. Durham: Duke UP, 1995. p. 15-32.)

===__SUMMARY__ This short story is about a man who washes up on the shores of a beach.The local women from the fishing village find him and bring him back to town.The women become amazed at his beauty and strength and begin to become emotional over his death even tho they never knew him.They begine to start creating a extravagant funeral. When the men return they see the commotion and are confuse.Then they too see the handsomeness of the man and are also in awe.Finally they proceed to have the extravagant funeral and the book ends.===