Marina Warner Quotes About Storytellers

• El almacén de los cuentos de hadas, esa cámara azul donde yacen las historias a la espera de ser redescubiertas, encierra la promesa de esos encantos creativos, no sólo para sus propios personajes atrapados en sus propias tramas; ofrece metamorfosis mágicas a quien abre la puerta, a quien transmite lo que allí se encontró y a quienes escuchan lo que el narrador trae. La facultad de asombrarse, al igual que la curiosidad, puede hacer que las cosas sucedan; ya es hora de que los deseos tengan su merecido.

  Marina Warner

  Mentir, Carácter, Pensar

• Scheherazade, of course, was always in the back of my mind, because she's also a storyteller identified as female who tells a lot of anti-female stories. There's a parade in The Arabian Nights of sorceresses, adulteresses, ghouls, sirens, harridans.

  Marina Warner

  Night, Ghouls, Mind

  Fuente: therumpus.net

• One of the metaphors of the book is the carpet. Not just the flying carpet, but the carpet as a woven surface in which many repetitions and motifs recur and mirror one another. This is very much reflected within the stories: they have borders within borders, repeated motifs which change. They have their feet in oral conventions, and for the mnemonics, the storyteller needs to have a structure in order to remember the stories.

  Marina Warner

  Book, Mirrors, Order

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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