Magical Idealism

Magical idealism is a literary movement briefly defined as "the magic at the service of emotions".
History
Novalis is the pseudonym or poetic name of Friedrich von Hardenberg (1772-1801), one of the great representatives of German Romanticism. He is famous for his lyrical poetry and prose, characterized by a profound religious mysticism. Author of a small but beautiful poetry written in the last years of his life and in memory of his beloved. He had an enormous influence on many other writers of his time.
Novalis called his poetic conception "magical idealism", in which poetry, philosophy and natural sciences come together to form a peculiar science, a mystical interpretation of the universe. The "magical idealism" is based on the analogy between the individual soul and the human body on the one hand, and that between the soul of the universe and the individual soul. For Novalis "just as the human soul governs his body, the soul of the universe governs the human soul. We carry the universe inside, and the world has a native ability to be animated by me, so that the project we have for the world coincides with that one we have for ourselves. The mission of the poet is to impose the idea, the spirit over matter, convert the involuntary into volunteer, spiritualize the cosmos, moralizing nature ... ".
Current exponents
Among its main representatives is the Colombian poet and writer Ángela Becerra for whom the magic is at the service of emotions as something that helps highlight a situation or a very strong emotion. "I come from a country, Colombia, with an amazing imagination: I grew up between reality and fiction, with the tales I heard as a child, the noises of the night ... I remember a night bird that sings as if somebody was choking a woman, and at home they said it was the headless bride, whose body was looking for her head... You end up living in that imagined reality, " she says.
Magical idealism characterizes her widely read and awarded books:
*Of Useless Loves, novel, 2004.
*The Penultimate Dream, novel, 2005.
*What Time is Missing, novel, 2007.
*She, who had it all, novel, 2009.
*Memoirs of a Seven Soles Scoundrel, novel, 2013

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