Magical realism

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Magical realism, magic realism, or marvelous realism is a style or genre of fiction and art that
presents a realistic view of the world while incorporating magical elements, often blurring the lines
between speculation and reality.[1] Magical realism is the most commonly used of the three terms and
refers to literature in particular, with magical or supernatural phenomena presented in an otherwise
real-world or mundane setting, and is commonly found in novels and dramatic performances.[2]: 1–5
In his article "Magical Realism in Spanish American Literature", Luis Leal explains the difference
between magic literature and magical realism, stating that, "Magical realism is not magic literature
either. Its aim, unlike that of magic, is to express emotions, not to evoke them."[3] Despite including
certain magic elements, it is generally considered to be a different genre from fantasy because magical
realism uses a substantial amount of realistic detail and employs magical elements to make a point
about reality, while fantasy stories are often separated from reality.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10] The two are also
distinguished in that magic realism is closer to literary fiction than to fantasy, which is instead a type
of genre fiction.[11] Magical realism is often seen as an amalgamation of real and magical elements
that produces a more inclusive writing form than either literary realism or fantasy.[5]

Description
The term magic realism is broadly descriptive rather than critically rigorous, and Matthew Strecher
(1999) defines it as "what happens when a highly detailed, realistic setting is invaded by something
too strange to believe."[12] The term and its wide definition can often become confused, as many
writers are categorized as magical realists. The term was influenced by a German and Italian painting
style of the 1920s which were given the same name.[2] In The Art of Fiction, British novelist and critic
David Lodge defines magic realism: "when marvellous and impossible events occur in what otherwise
purports to be a realistic narrative—is an effect especially associated with contemporary Latin
American fiction (for example the work of the Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez) but it is
also encountered in novels from other continents, such as those of Günter Grass, Salman Rushdie and
Milan Kundera. All these writers have lived through great historical convulsions and wrenching
personal upheavals, which they feel cannot be adequately represented in a discourse of undisturbed
realism", citing Kundera's 1979 novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting as an exemplar."[13]
Michiko Kakutani writes that "The transactions between the extraordinary and the mundane that
occur in so much Latin American fiction are not merely a literary technique, but also a mirror of a
reality in which the fantastic is frequently part of everyday life."[14] Magical realism often mixes
history and fantasy, as in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, in which the children born at
midnight on August 15, 1947, the moment of India's independence, are telepathically linked.
Irene Guenther (1995) tackles the German roots of the term, and how an earlier magic realist art is
related to a later magic realist literature;[15] meanwhile, magical realism is often associated with
Latin-American literature, including founders of the genre, particularly the authors Gabriel García
Márquez, Isabel Allende, Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Rulfo, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Elena Garro, Mireya
Robles, Rómulo Gallegos, Alejo Carpentier and Arturo Uslar Pietri. In English literature, its chief
exponents include Neil Gaiman, Salman Rushdie, Alice Hoffman, Louis De Bernieres, Nick Joaquin,
and Nicola Barker. In Russian literature, key proponents include Mikhail Bulgakov, Soviet dissident
Andrei Sinyavsky and the playwright Nina Sadur. In Bengali literature, prominent writers of magic
realism include Nabarun Bhattacharya, Akhteruzzaman Elias, Shahidul Zahir, Jibanananda Das and
Syed Waliullah. In Kannada literature, the writers Shivaram Karanth and Devanur Mahadeva have
infused magical realism in their most prominent works. In Japanese literature, one of the most
important authors of this genre is Haruki Murakami. In Chinese literature the best-known writer of
the style is Mo Yan, the 2012 Nobel Prize laureate in Literature for his "hallucinatory realism". In
Polish literature, magic realism is represented by Olga Tokarczuk, the 2018 Nobel Prize laureate in
Literature.

Etymology and literary origins

The term first appeared as the German magischer Realismus ('magical realism'). In 1925, German art
critic Franz Roh used magischer Realismus to refer to a painterly style known as Neue Sachlichkeit
('New Objectivity'),[16][17] an alternative to expressionism that was championed by German museum
director Gustav Hartlaub.[2]: 9–11 [15]: 33 Roh identified magic realism's accurate detail, smooth
photographic clarity, and portrayal of the 'magical' nature of the rational world; it reflected the
uncanniness of people and our modern technological environment.[2]: 9–10 He also believed that
magic realism was related to, but distinct from, surrealism, due to magic realism's focus on material
object and the actual existence of things in the world, as opposed to surrealism's more abstract,
psychological, and subconscious reality.[2]: 12

19th-century Romantic writers such as E. T. A. Hoffmann and Nikolai Gogol, especially in their fairy
tales and short stories, have been credited with originating a trend within Romanticism that contained
"a European magical realism where the realms of fantasy are continuously encroaching and
populating the realms of the real".[18] In the words of Anatoly Lunacharsky:

Unlike other romantics, Hoffmann was a satirist. He saw the reality surrounding him with
unusual keenness, and in this sense he was one of the first and sharpest realists. The
smallest details of everyday life, funny features in the people around him with
extraordinary honesty were noticed by him. In this sense, his works are a whole mountain
of delightfully sketched caricatures of reality. But he was not limited to them. Often he
created nightmares similar to Gogol's Portrait. Gogol is a student of Hoffmann and is
extremely dependent on Hoffmann in many works, for example in Portrait and The Nose.
In them, just like Hoffmann, he frightens with a nightmare and contrasts it to a positive
beginning ... Hoffmann's dream was free, graceful, attractive, cheerful to infinity. Reading
his fairy tales, you understand that Hoffmann is, in essence, a kind, clear person, because
he could tell a child such things as The Nutcracker or The Royal Bride – these pearls of
human fantasy.[19]
German magic-realist paintings influenced the Italian writer Massimo Bontempelli, who has been
called the first to apply magic realism to writing, aiming to capture the fantastic, mysterious nature of
reality. In 1926, he founded the magic realist magazine 900.Novecento, and his writings influenced
Belgian magic realist writers Johan Daisne and Hubert Lampo.[2]: 13–14

Roh's magic realism also influenced writers in Hispanic America, where it was translated in 1927 as
realismo mágico. Venezuelan writer Arturo Uslar-Pietri, who had known Bontempelli, wrote
influential magic-realist short stories in the 1920s and 30s that focused on the mystery and reality of
how we live.[2]: 14–15 Luis Leal attests that Uslar Pietri seemed to have been the first to use the term
realismo mágico in literature, in 1948.[20] There is evidence that Mexican writer Elena Garro used the
same term to describe the works of E. T. A. Hoffmann, but dismissed her own work as a part of the
genre.[21] French-Russian Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier, who rejected Roh's magic realism as
tiresome pretension, developed his related concept lo real maravilloso ('marvelous realism') in
1949.[2]: 14 Maggie Ann Bowers writes that marvelous-realist literature and art expresses "the
seemingly opposed perspectives of a pragmatic, practical and tangible approach to reality and an
acceptance of magic and superstition" within an environment of differing cultures.[2]: 2–3

Magic realism was later used to describe the uncanny realism by such American painters as Ivan
Albright, Peter Blume, Paul Cadmus, Gray Foy, George Tooker, and Viennese-born Henry Koerner,
among other artists during the 1940s and 1950s. However, in contrast with its use in literature, magic
realist art does not often include overtly fantastic or magical content, but rather, it looks at the
mundane through a hyper-realistic and often mysterious lens.[15]

The term magical realism, as opposed to magic realism, first emerged in the 1955 essay "Magical
Realism in Spanish American Fiction" by critic Angel Flores in reference to writing that combines
aspects of magic realism and marvelous realism.[2]: 16 While Flores named Jorge Luis Borges as the
first magical realist, he failed to acknowledge either Carpentier or Uslar Pietri for bringing Roh's
magic realism to Latin America. Borges is often seen as a predecessor of magical realists, with only
Flores considering him a true magical realist.[2]: 16–18 After Flores's essay, there was a resurgence of
interest in marvelous realism, which, after the Cuban revolution of 1959, led to the term magical
realism being applied to a new type of literature known for matter-of-fact portrayal of magical
events.[2]: 18

Literary magic realism originated in Latin America. Writers often traveled between their home
country and European cultural hubs, such as Paris or Berlin, and were influenced by the art
movement of the time.[22][23] Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier and Venezuelan Arturo Uslar-Pietri, for
example, were strongly influenced by European artistic movements, such as Surrealism, during their
stays in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s.[2] One major event that linked painterly and literary magic
realisms was the translation and publication of Franz Roh's book into Spanish by Spain's Revista de
Occidente in 1927, headed by major literary figure José Ortega y Gasset. "Within a year, Magic
Realism was being applied to the prose of European authors in the literary circles of Buenos
Aires."[15]: 61 Jorge Luis Borges inspired and encouraged other Latin American writers in the
development of magical realism – particularly with his first magical realist publication, Historia
universal de la infamia in 1935.[24] Between 1940 and 1950, magical realism in Latin America
reached its peak, with prominent writers appearing mainly in Argentina.[24] Alejo Carpentier's novel
The Kingdom of This World, published in 1949, is often characterised as an important harbinger of
magic realism, which reached its most canonical incarnation in Gabriel García Marquez's novel One
Hundred Years of Solitude (1967).[25] García Marquez cited Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" as a
formative influence: "The first line almost knocked me out of bed. It begins: 'As Gregor Samsa awoke
from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.' When I read that
line I thought to myself I didn't know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I
would have started writing a long time ago." He also cited the stories told to him by his grandmother:
"She told me things that sounded supernatural and fantastic, but she told them with complete
naturalness. She did not change her expression at all when telling her stories, and everyone was
surprised. In previous attempts to write One Hundred Years of Solitude, I tried to tell the story
without believing in it. I discovered that what I had to was believe in them myself and them write
them with the same expression with which my grandmother told them: with a brick face."[26]

The theoretical implications of visual art's magic realism greatly influenced European and Latin
American literature. Italian Massimo Bontempelli, for instance, claimed that literature could be a
means to create a collective consciousness by "opening new mythical and magical perspectives on
reality", and used his writings to inspire an Italian nation governed by Fascism.[2] Uslar Pietri was
closely associated with Roh's form of magic realism and knew Bontempelli in Paris. Rather than
follow Carpentier's developing versions of "the (Latin) American marvelous real", Uslar Pietri's
writings emphasize "the mystery of human living amongst the reality of life". He believed magic
realism was "a continuation of the vanguardia [or avant-garde] modernist experimental writings of
Latin America".[2]

Characteristics
The extent to which the characteristics below apply to a given magic realist text varies. Every text is
different and employs a smattering of the qualities listed here. However, they accurately portray what
one might expect from a magic realist text.

Fantastical realism elements

Magical realism portrays fantastical events in an otherwise realistic tone. It brings fables, folk tales,
and myths into contemporary social relevance. Fantasy traits given to characters, such as levitation,
telepathy, and telekinesis, help to encompass modern political realities that can be
phantasmagorical.[27]

Real-world setting
The existence of fantastic elements in the real world provides the basis for magical realism. Writers do
not invent new worlds, but rather, they reveal the magical in the existing world, as was done by
Gabriel García Márquez, who wrote the seminal work One Hundred Years of Solitude.[28] In the
world of magical realism, the supernatural realm blends with the natural, familiar world.[29]: 15

Authorial reticence
Authorial reticence is the "deliberate withholding of information and explanations about the
disconcerting fictitious world".[30]: 16 The narrator is indifferent, a characteristic enhanced by this
absence of explanation of fantastic events; the story proceeds with "logical precision" as if nothing
extraordinary had taken place.[24][30]: 30 Magical events are presented as ordinary occurrences;
therefore, the reader accepts the marvelous as normal and common.[31]

Plenitude
In his essay "The Baroque and the Marvelous Real", Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier defines the
baroque by a lack of emptiness, a departure from structure or rules, and an "extraordinary"
abundance (plenitude) of disorienting detail. (He cites Mondrian as its opposite.) From this angle,
Carpentier views the baroque as a layering of elements, which translates easily into the postcolonial or
transcultural Latin-American atmosphere that he emphasizes in The Kingdom of this World.[32]
"America, a continent of symbiosis, mutations ... mestizaje, engenders the baroque",[23] made explicit
by elaborate Aztec temples and associative Nahuatl poetry. These mixing ethnicities grow together
with the American baroque; the space in between is where the "marvelous real" is seen. Marvelous:
not meaning beautiful and pleasant, but extraordinary, strange, and excellent. Such a complex system
of layering—encompassed in the Latin-American "boom" novel, such as One Hundred Years of
Solitude—aims towards "translating the scope of America".[23]: 107

Hybridity
Magical realism plot lines characteristically employ hybrid multiple planes of reality that take place in
"inharmonious arenas of such opposites as urban and rural, and Western and indigenous".[33][34]

Metafiction
This trait centers on the reader's role in literature. With its multiple realities and specific reference to
the reader's world, it explores the impact fiction has on reality, reality on fiction, and the reader's role
in between; as such, it is well suited for drawing attention to social or political criticism. Furthermore,
it is the tool paramount in the execution of a related and major magic-realist phenomenon:
textualization. This term defines two conditions—first, where a fictitious reader enters the story within
a story while reading it, making them self-conscious of their status as readers—and secondly, where
the textual world enters into the reader's (real) world. Good sense would negate this process, but
"magic" is the flexible convention that allows it.[35]

Heightened awareness of mystery

Magic realist literature tends to leave out explanation of its magical element or obfuscate elements of
the story, creating a sense of confusion and mystery.[36][37] For example, when reading One Hundred
Years of Solitude, the reader must let go of pre-existing ties to conventional exposition, plot
advancement, linear time structure, scientific reason, etc., to strive for a state of heightened awareness
of life's connectedness or hidden meanings in order for the book to begin to make sense. Luis Leal
articulates this feeling as "to seize the mystery that breathes behind things",[38] and supports the
claim by saying a writer must heighten his senses to the point of estado limite ('limit state' or
'extreme') in order to realize all levels of reality, most importantly that of mystery.[39]

Political critique
Magic realism contains an "implicit criticism of society, particularly the elite".[40] Especially with
regard to Latin America, the style breaks from the inarguable discourse of "privileged centers of
literature".[41] This is a mode primarily about and for "ex-centrics": the geographically, socially, and
economically marginalized. Therefore, magic realism's "alternative world" works to correct the reality
of established viewpoints (like realism, naturalism, modernism). Magic-realist texts, under this logic,
are subversive texts, revolutionary against socially-dominant forces. Alternatively, the socially-
dominant may implement magical realism to disassociate themselves from their "power
discourse".[41]: 195 Theo D'haen calls this change in perspective "decentering".

In his review of Gabriel Garcia Márquez's novel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Salman Rushdie
argues that the formal experiment of magic realism allows political ideas to be expressed in ways that
might not be possible through more established literary forms:[42]

"El realismo mágico", magic realism, at least as practised by Márquez, is a development out
of Surrealism that expresses a genuinely "Third World" consciousness. It deals with what
Naipaul has called "half-made" societies, in which the impossibly old struggles against the
appallingly new, in which public corruptions and private anguishes are somehow more
garish and extreme than they ever get in the so-called "North", where centuries of wealth and
power have formed thick layers over the surface of what's really going on. In the works of
Márquez, as in the world he describes, impossible things happen constantly, and quite
plausibly, out in the open under the midday sun.[43]

Major topics in criticism

Ambiguities in definition
Mexican critic Luis Leal summed up the difficulty of defining magical realism by writing, "If you can
explain it, then it's not magical realism."[44] He offers his own definition by writing, "Without thinking
of the concept of magical realism, each writer gives expression to a reality he observes in the people.
To me, magical realism is an attitude on the part of the characters in the novel toward the world", or
toward nature.

Leal and Guenther both quote Arturo Uslar-Pietri, who described "man as a mystery surrounded by
realistic facts. A poetic prediction or a poetic denial of reality. What for lack of another name could be
called a magical realism."[45]

Western and native worldviews

The critical perspective towards magical realism as a conflict between reality and abnormality stems
from the Western reader's disassociation with mythology, a root of magical realism more easily
understood by non-Western cultures.[22]: 3–4 Western confusion regarding magical realism is due to
the "conception of the real" created in a magical realist text: rather than explain reality using natural
or physical laws, as in typical Western texts, magical realist texts create a reality "in which the relation
between incidents, characters, and setting could not be based upon or justified by their status within
the physical world or their normal acceptance by bourgeois mentality."[46]

Guatemalan author William Spindler's article, "Magic realism: A Typology",[47] suggests that there are
three kinds of magic realism, which however are by no means incompatible:[48]

European "metaphysical" magic realism, with its sense of estrangement and the uncanny,
exemplified by Kafka's fiction;
"ontological" magical realism, characterized by "matter-of-factness" in relating "inexplicable"
events; and
"anthropological" magical realism, where a Native worldview is set side by side with the Western
rational worldview.
Spindler's typology of magic realism has been criticized as:[49]

[A]n act of categorization which seeks to define Magic Realism as a culturally specific project,
by identifying for his readers those (non-modern) societies where myth and magic persist
and where Magic Realism might be expected to occur. There are objections to this analysis.
Western rationalism models may not actually describe Western modes of thinking and it is
possible to conceive of instances where both orders of knowledge are simultaneously
possible.

Lo real maravilloso
Alejo Carpentier originated the term lo real maravilloso (roughly 'the marvelous real') in the prologue
to his novel The Kingdom of this World (1949); however, some debate whether he is truly a magical
realist writer, or simply a precursor and source of inspiration. Maggie Bowers claims he is widely
acknowledged as the originator of Latin American magical realism (as both a novelist and critic);[2]
she describes Carpentier's conception as a kind of heightened reality where elements of the
miraculous can appear while seeming natural and unforced. She suggests that by disassociating
himself and his writings from Roh's painterly magic realism, Carpentier aimed to show how—by virtue
of Latin America's varied history, geography, demography, politics, myths, and beliefs—improbable
and marvelous things are made possible.[2] Furthermore, Carpentier's meaning is that Latin America
is a land filled with marvels, and that "writing about this land automatically produces a literature of
marvelous reality."[29]

"The marvelous" may be easily confused with magical realism, as both modes introduce supernatural
events without surprising the implied author. In both, these magical events are expected and accepted
as everyday occurrences. However, the marvelous world is a unidimensional world. The implied
author believes that anything can happen here, as the entire world is filled with supernatural beings
and situations to begin with. Fairy tales are a good example of marvelous literature. The important
idea in defining the marvelous is that readers understand that this fictional world is different from the
world where they live. The "marvelous" one-dimensional world differs
from the bidimensional world of magical realism because, in the latter,
the supernatural realm blends with the natural, familiar world (arriving
at the combination of two layers of reality: bidimensionality).[29]: 15 While
some use the terms magical realism and lo real maravilloso
interchangeably, the key difference lies in the focus.[29]: 11

Critic Luis Leal attests that Carpentier was an originating pillar of the
magical realist style by implicitly referring to the latter's critical works,
writing that "The existence of the marvelous real is what started magical
realist literature, which some critics claim is the truly American
literature."[50] It can consequently be drawn that Carpentier's lo real
maravilloso is especially distinct from 'magical realism' by the fact that
the former applies specifically to América (the American content).[34] On
Alejo Carpentier
that note, Lee A. Daniel categorizes critics of Carpentier into three
groups: those that do not consider him a magical realist whatsoever
(Ángel Flores), those that call him "a mágicorealista writer with no mention of his 'lo real maravilloso'
(Gómez Gil, Jean Franco, Carlos Fuentes)", and those that use the two terms interchangeably
(Fernando Alegria, Luis Leal, Emir Rodriguez Monegal).[34]

Latin American exclusivity

Ángel Flores states that magical realism is an international commodity but that it has a Hispanic
birthplace, writing that "Magical realism is a continuation of the romantic realist tradition of Spanish
language literature and its European counterparts."[51] There is disagreement between those who see
magical realism as a Latin American invention and those who see it as the global product of a
postmodern world.[22] Guenther concludes, "Conjecture aside, it is in Latin America that [magic
realism] was primarily seized by literary criticism and was, through translation and literary
appropriation, transformed."[15]: 61 Magic realism has been internationalized: dozens of non-Hispanic
writers are categorized as such, and many believe that it truly is an international commodity.[22]: 4, 8

Postmodernism
Some have argued that connecting magical realism to postmodernism is a logical next step. To further
connect the two concepts, there are descriptive commonalities between the two that Belgian critic
Theo D'haen addresses in his essay, "Magical Realism and Postmodernism". While authors such as
Günter Grass, Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, Italo Calvino, John Fowles, Angela Carter, John
Banville, Michel Tournier, Willem Brakman, and Louis Ferron might be widely considered
postmodernist, they can "just as easily be categorized ... magic realist".[52] A list has been compiled of
characteristics one might typically attribute to postmodernism, but that also could describe literary
magic realism: "self-reflexiveness, metafiction, eclecticism, redundancy, multiplicity, discontinuity,
intertextuality, parody, the dissolution of character and narrative instance, the erasure of boundaries,
and the destabilization of the reader".[53] To further connect the two, magical realism and
postmodernism share the themes of post-colonial discourse, in which jumps in time and focus cannot
really be explained with scientific but rather with magical reasoning; textualization (of the reader);
and metafiction.
Concerning attitude toward audience, the two have, some argue, a lot in common. Magical realist
works do not seek to primarily satisfy a popular audience, but instead, a sophisticated audience that
must be attuned to noticing textual "subtleties".[24] While the postmodern writer condemns escapist
literature (like fantasy, crime, ghost fiction), he/she is inextricably related to it concerning readership.
There are two modes in postmodern literature: one, commercially successful pop fiction, and the
other, philosophy, better suited to intellectuals. A singular reading of the first mode will render a
distorted or reductive understanding of the text. The fictitious reader—such as Aureliano from 100
Years of Solitude—is the hostage used to express the writer's anxiety on this issue of who is reading
the work and to what ends, and of how the writer is forever reliant upon the needs and desires of
readers (the market).[35] The magic realist writer with difficulty must reach a balance between
saleability and intellectual integrity. Wendy Faris, talking about magic realism as a contemporary
phenomenon that leaves modernism for postmodernism, says, "Magic realist fictions do seem more
youthful and popular than their modernist predecessors, in that they often (though not always) cater
with unidirectional story lines to our basic desire to hear what happens next. Thus they may be more
clearly designed for the entertainment of readers."[54]

Comparison with related genres

When attempting to define what something is, it is often helpful to define what something is not.
Many literary critics attempt to classify novels and literary works in only one genre, such as
"romantic" or "naturalist", not always taking into account that many works fall into multiple
categories.[24] Much discussion is cited from Maggie Ann Bowers' book Magic(al) Realism, wherein
she attempts to delimit the terms magic realism and magical realism by examining the relationships
with other genres such as realism, surrealism, fantastic literature, science fiction and its African
version, the animist realism.

Realism
Realism is an attempt to create a depiction of actual life; a novel does not simply rely on what it
presents but how it presents it. In this way, a realist narrative acts as framework by which the reader
constructs a world using the raw materials of life. Understanding both realism and magical realism
within the realm of a narrative mode is key to understanding both terms. Magical realism "relies upon
the presentation of real, imagined or magical elements as if they were real. It relies upon realism, but
only so that it can stretch what is acceptable as real to its limits."[2]: 22 Literary theorist Kornelije Kvas
wrote that "what is created in magic(al) realism works is a fictional world close to reality, marked by a
strong presence of the unusual and the fantastic, in order to point out, among other things, the
contradictions and shortcomings of society. The presence of the element of the fantastic does not
violate the manifest coherence of a work that is characteristic of traditional realist literature. Fantastic
(magical) elements appear as part of everyday reality, function as saviors of the human against the
onslaught of conformism, evil and totalitarianism. Moreover, in magical realism works we find
objective narration characteristic of traditional, 19th-century realism."[55]

As a simple point of comparison, Roh's differentiation between expressionism and post-

expressionism as described in German Art in the 20th Century, may be applied to magic realism and
realism. Realism pertains to the terms "history", "mimetic", "familiarization", "empiricism/logic",
"narration", "closure-ridden/reductive naturalism", and "rationalization/cause and effect".[56] On the
other hand, magic realism encompasses the terms "myth/legend", "fantastic/supplementation",
"defamiliarization", "mysticism/magic", "meta-narration", "open-ended/expansive romanticism", and
"imagination/negative capability".[56]

Surrealism
Surrealism is often confused with magical realism as they both explore illogical or non-realist aspects
of humanity and existence. There is a strong historical connection between Franz Roh's concept of
magic realism and surrealism, as well as the resulting influence on Carpentier's marvelous reality;
however, important differences remain. Surrealism "is most distanced from magical realism [in that]
the aspects that it explores are associated not with material reality but with the imagination and the
mind, and in particular it attempts to express the 'inner life' and psychology of humans through art".
It seeks to express the sub-conscious, unconscious, the repressed and inexpressible. Magical realism,
on the other hand, rarely presents the extraordinary in the form of a dream or a psychological
experience. "To do so", Bowers writes, "takes the magic of recognizable material reality and places it
into the little understood world of the imagination. The ordinariness of magical realism's magic relies
on its accepted and unquestioned position in tangible and material reality."[2]: 22–4

Fabulism
Fabulism traditionally refers to fables, parables, and myths, and is sometimes used in contemporary
contexts for authors whose work falls within or relates to magical realism.

Though often used to refer to works of magical realism, fabulism incorporates fantasy elements into
reality, using myths and fables to critique the exterior world and offer direct allegorical
interpretations. Austrian-American child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim suggested that fairy tales
have psychological merit. They are used to translate trauma into a context that people can more easily
understand and help to process difficult truths. Bettelheim posited that the darkness and morality of
traditional fairy tales allowed children to grapple with questions of fear through symbolism. Fabulism
helped to work through these complexities and, in the words of Bettelheim, "make physical what is
otherwise ephemeral or ineffable in an attempt ... of understanding those things that we struggle the
most to talk about: loss, love, transition."[57]

Author Amber Sparks described fabulism as blending fantastical elements into a realistic setting.
Crucial to the genre, said Sparks, is that the elements are often borrowed from specific myths, fairy
tales, and folktales. Unlike magical realism, it does not just use general magical elements, but directly
incorporates details from well known stories. "Our lives are bizarre, meandering, and fantastic", said
Hannah Gilham of the Washington Square Review regarding fabulism. "Shouldn't our fiction reflect
that?"[58]

While magical realism is traditionally used to refer to works that are Latin American in origin,
fabulism is not tied to any specific culture. Rather than focusing on political realities, fabulism tends
to focus on the entirety of the human experience through the mechanization of fairy tales and
myths.[59] This can be seen in the works of C. S. Lewis, whose biographer, A.N. Wilson, referred to
him as the greatest fabulist of the 20th century.[60] His 1956 novel Till We Have Faces has been
referenced as a fabulist retelling. This re-imagining of the story of Cupid and Psyche uses an age-old
myth to impart moralistic knowledge on the reader. A Washington Post review of a Lewis biography
discusses how his work creates "a fiction" in order to deliver a lesson. Says the Post of Lewis, "The
fabulist ... illuminates the nature of things through a tale both he and his auditors, or readers, know to
be an ingenious analogical invention."[61]

Italo Calvino is an example of a writer in the genre who uses the term fabulist. Calvino is best known
for his book trilogy, Our Ancestors, a collection of moral tales told through surrealist fantasy. Like
many fabulist collections, his work is often classified as allegories for children. Calvino wanted fiction,
like folk tales, to act as a teaching device. "Time and again, Calvino insisted on the 'educational
potential' of the fable and its function as a moral exemplum", wrote journalist Ian Thomson about the
Italian Fabulist.[62]

While reviewing the work of Romanian-born American theater director Andrei Şerban, New York
Times critic Mel Gussow coined the term "The New Fabulism". Şerban is famous for his reinventions
in the art of staging and directing, known for directing works like "The Stag King" and "The Serpent
Woman", both fables adapted into plays by Carl Gozzi. Gussow defined "The New Fabulism" as
"taking ancient myths and turn(ing) them into morality tales",[63] In Ed Menta's book, The Magic
Behind the Curtain, he explores Şerban's work and influence within the context of American theatre.
He wrote that the Fabulist style allowed Şerban to neatly combine technical form and his own
imagination. Through directing fabulist works, Şerban can inspire an audience with innate goodness
and romanticism through the magic of theatre. "The New Fabulism has allowed Şerban to pursue his
own ideals of achieving on sage the naivete of a children's theater", wrote Menta. "It is in this
simplicity, this innocence, this magic that Şerban finds any hope for contemporary theatre at all."[63]

Fantasy
Fantasy and magic realism are commonly held to be unrelated apart from some shared inspirations in
mythology and folklore. Amaryll Beatrice Chanady distinguishes magical realist literature from
fantasy literature ("the fantastic") based on differences between three shared dimensions: the use of
antinomy (the simultaneous presence of two conflicting codes), the inclusion of events that cannot be
integrated into a logical framework, and the use of authorial reticence. In fantasy, the presence of the
supernatural code is perceived as problematic, something that draws special attention—where in
magical realism, the presence of the supernatural is accepted. In fantasy, while authorial reticence
creates a disturbing effect on the reader, it works to integrate the supernatural into the natural
framework in magical realism. This integration is made possible in magical realism as the author
presents the supernatural as being equally valid to the natural. There is no hierarchy between the two
codes.[64] The ghost of Melquíades in Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude or the baby ghost in
Toni Morrison's Beloved who visit or haunt the inhabitants of their previous residence are both
presented by the narrator as ordinary occurrences; the reader, therefore, accepts the marvelous as
normal and common.[2]: 25–27

To Clark Zlotchew, the differentiating factor between the fantastic and magical realism is that in
fantastic literature, such as Kafka's The Metamorphosis, there is a hesitation experienced by the
protagonist, implied author or reader in deciding whether to attribute natural or supernatural causes
to an unsettling event, or between rational or irrational explanations.[29]: 14 Fantastic literature has
also been defined as a piece of narrative in which there is a constant faltering between belief and non-
belief in the supernatural or extraordinary event.

In Leal's view, writers of fantasy literature, such as Borges, can create "new worlds, perhaps new
planets. By contrast, writers like García Márquez, who use magical realism, don't create new worlds,
but suggest the magical in our world."[28] In magical realism, the supernatural realm blends with the
natural, familiar world. This twofold world of magical realism differs from the onefold world that can
be found in fairy-tale and fantasy literature.[29]: 15 By contrast, in the series "Sorcerous Stabber
Orphen" the laws of natural world become a basis for a naturalistic concept of magic.[65]

Prominent English-language fantasy writers have rejected definitions of "magic realism" as something
other than a synonym for fantasy fiction. Gene Wolfe said, "magic realism is fantasy written by people
who speak Spanish",[66] and Terry Pratchett said magic realism "is like a polite way of saying you
write fantasy".[67]

Animist realism
Animist realism is a term for conceptualizing the African literature that has been written based on the
strong presence of the imaginary ancestor, the traditional religion and especially the animism of
African cultures.[68] The term was used by Pepetela (1989)[69] and Harry Garuba (2003)[70] to be a
new conception of magic realism in African literature.

Science fiction
While science fiction and magical realism both bend the notion of what is real, toy with human
imagination, and are forms of (often fantastical) fiction, they differ greatly. Bower's cites Aldous
Huxley's Brave New World as a novel that exemplifies the science fiction novel's requirement of a
"rational, physical explanation for any unusual occurrences". Huxley portrays a world where the
population is highly controlled with mood enhancing drugs, which are controlled by the government.
In this world, there is no link between copulation and reproduction. Humans are produced in giant
test tubes, where chemical alterations during gestation determine their fates. Bowers argues that "The
science fiction narrative's distinct difference from magical realism is that it is set in a world different
from any known reality and its realism resides in the fact that we can recognize it as a possibility for
our future. Unlike magical realism, it does not have a realistic setting that is recognizable in relation to
any past or present reality."[2]: 29–30

Major authors and works

Although critics and writers debate which authors or works fall within the magical realism genre, the
following authors represent the narrative mode. Within the Latin American world, the most iconic of
magical realist writers are Jorge Luis Borges,[71] Isabel Allende,[72] and Nobel Laureate Gabriel García
Márquez, whose novel One Hundred Years of Solitude was an instant worldwide success.
García Márquez confessed: "My most important problem was destroying
the line of demarcation that separates what seems real from what seems
fantastic."[73] Allende was the first Latin American woman writer
recognized outside the continent. Her best-known novel, The House of
the Spirits, is arguably similar to García Márquez's style of magical realist
writing.[2]: 43 Another notable novelist is Laura Esquivel, whose Like
Water for Chocolate tells the story of the domestic life of women living on
the margins of their families and society. The novel's protagonist, Tita, is
kept from happiness and marriage by her mother. "Her unrequited love
and ostracism from the family lead her to harness her extraordinary
powers of imbuing her emotions to the food she makes. In turn, people
who eat her food enact her emotions for her. For example, after eating a Plaque of Gabriel García
wedding cake Tita made while suffering from a forbidden love, the guests Márquez, Paris
all suffer from a wave of longing. The Mexican author Juan Rulfo
pioneered the exposition through a non-linear structure with his short
novel Pedro Páramo that tells the story of Comala both as a lively town in times of the eponymous
Pedro Páramo and as a ghost town through the eyes of his son Juan Preciado who returns to Comala
to fulfil a promise to his dead mother.[74]

In the Portuguese-speaking world, Jorge Amado and Nobel prize-winning novelist José Saramago are
some of the most famous authors of magic realism. Less well-known figures may include Murilo
Rubião, playwright Dias Gomes (Saramandaia), and José J. Veiga. Incidente em Antares, a novel by
Erico Verrissimo, is also included, even though the author is not. Amado remains the best known of
modern Brazilian writers, with his work having been translated into some 49 languages. He is the
most adapted Brazilian author in cinema, theater, and television, notably Dona Flor and Her Two
Husbands in 1976 and the American remake Kiss Me Goodbye in 1982. Angolan author Ondjaki's
novel Transparent City is an example of magical realism in African literature. Transparent City won
the José Saramago Prize in 2013.

In the English-speaking world, major authors include: British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie, whose
Midnight's Children mixes history and fantasy; African American novelists Toni Morrison (although
she has contested this descriptor of her work[75]) and Gloria Naylor; American Latino writers such as
Ana Castillo, Rudolfo Anaya, Daniel Olivas, Rudy Ruiz, and Helena Maria Viramontes; Guatemalan
author Miguel Ángel Asturias; Native American authors Louise Erdrich and Sherman Alexie; English
author Louis de Bernières; and English feminist writer Angela Carter. Perhaps the best known is
Rushdie, whose "language form of magical realism straddles both the surrealist tradition of magic
realism as it developed in Europe and the mythic tradition of magical realism as it developed in Latin
America".[2] Morrison's most notable work, Beloved, tells the story of a mother who, haunted by the
ghost of her child, learns to cope with memories of her traumatic childhood as an abused slave and the
burden of nurturing children into a harsh and brutal society.[2] The Welsh author Glyn Jones's novel
The Island of Apples (1965) is often overlooked, perhaps because it appeared before the term 'magic
realism' was commonly known in English, perhaps because too much was made of the supposed
influence of Jones's friend Dylan Thomas on his work, but this phantasmagorical blend of reality and
myth with a twelve-year-old narrator set in a dreamlike version of the early 20th century clearly
merits inclusion in the genre.[76] Jonathan Safran Foer uses magical realism in exploring the history
of the stetl and Holocaust in Everything Is Illuminated. The South African-Italian author Patricia
Schonstein uses magic realism in examining the Holocaust, the Rhodesian War and apartheid in A
Time of Angels and A Quilt of Dreams.

Dino Buzzati's novels and short stories are often cited as examples of magic realism in Italian
literature.

In Norway, the writers Erik Fosnes Hansen, Jan Kjærstad and the young novelist Rune Salvesen have
marked themselves as premier writers of magical realism, something that has been seen as very un-
Norwegian.

Dimitris Lyacos's Poena Damni trilogy, originally written in Greek, is also seen as displaying
characteristics of magic realism in its simultaneous fusion of real and unreal situations in the same
narrative context.

In Kannada literature, Shivaram Karanth's Jnanpith award winning novel Mookajjiya Kanasugalu
and Devanur Mahadeva's Kendra Sahitya Akademi award winning novel Kusuma Baale are two
prominent works that dabbled in magical realism. Both the works are widely read and have been
adapted into a movie and a limited TV series, respectively. Mookajjiya Kanasugalu is a novel that
traces the evolution of 'gods' in a grounded setting via Mookajji's (the main character) preternatural
ability to touch and see everything an inanimate object has witnessed in its entire existence. The novel
Kusuma Baale blends magical realism and surrealism while telling the story of lives of people from
the oppressed castes in rural parts of Karnataka.

Visual art

Historical development
The painterly style began evolving as early as the first decade of the 20th
century,[77] but 1925 was when Magischer Realismus and Neue
Sachlichkeit were officially recognized as major trends. This was the year
that Franz Roh published his book on the subject, Nach-
Expressionismus, Magischer Realismus: Probleme der neuesten
europäischen Malerei (Post-Expressionism, Magical Realism: Problems
of the Newest European Painting) and Gustav Hartlaub curated the
seminal exhibition on the theme, entitled simply Neue Sachlichkeit
(translated as New Objectivity), at the Kunsthalle Mannheim in
Mannheim, Germany.[15]: 41 Guenther refers most frequently to the New
Giorgio de Chirico, Love Objectivity, rather than magical realism, which is attributed to that New
Song, 1914, Museum of objectivity is practical based, referential (to real practicing artists), while
Modern Art, New York the magical realism is theoretical or critic's rhetoric. Eventually under
Massimo Bontempelli guidance, the term 'magic realism' was fully
embraced by the German as well as in Italian practicing
communities.[15]: 60
New Objectivity saw an utter rejection of the preceding impressionist and expressionist movements,
and Hartlaub curated his exhibition under the guideline: only those "who have remained true or have
returned to a positive, palpable reality in order to reveal the truth of the times"[78]: 41 would be
included. The style was roughly divided into two subcategories: conservative, (neo-)classicist painting,
and generally left-wing, politically motivated Verists.[79]: 41 The following quote by Hartlaub
distinguishes the two, though mostly with reference to Germany; however, one might apply the logic
to all relevant European countries.[79]: 41

In the new art, he saw a right, a left wing. One, conservative towards Classicism, taking roots
in timelessness, wanting to sanctify again the healthy, physically plastic in pure drawing after
nature ... after so much eccentricity and chaos [a reference to the repercussions of World
War I] ... The other, the left, glaringly contemporary, far less artistically faithful, rather born
of the negation of art, seeking to expose the chaos, the true face of our time, with an
addiction to primitive fact-finding and nervous baring of the self ... There is nothing left but
to affirm it [the new art], especially since it seems strong enough to raise new artistic
willpower.[80]

Both sides were seen all over Europe during the 1920s and 1930s, ranging from the Netherlands to
Austria, France to Russia, with Germany and Italy as centers of growth.[79]: 41–45 Indeed, Italian
Giorgio de Chirico, producing works in the late 1910s under the style arte metafisica (translated as
Metaphysical art), is seen as a precursor and as having an "influence ... greater than any other painter
on the artists of New Objectivity."[79]: 38 [81]

Further afield, American painters were later (in the 1940s and 1950s, mostly) coined magical realists;
a link between these artists and the Neue Sachlichkeit of the 1920s was explicitly made in the New
York Museum of Modern Art exhibition, tellingly titled "American Realists and Magic Realists".[82]
French magical realist Pierre Roy, who worked and showed successfully in the US, is cited as having
"helped spread Franz Roh's formulations" to the United States.[79]: 45

Excluding the overtly fantastic

When art critic Franz Roh applied the term magic realism to visual art in 1925, he was designating a
style of visual art that brings extreme realism to the depiction of mundane subject matter, revealing
an "interior" mystery, rather than imposing external, overtly magical features onto this everyday
reality. Roh explains:[83]

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 ... it is a question of
representing before our eyes, in an intuitive way, the fact, the interior figure, of the exterior
world.
In painting, 'magical realism' is a term often interchanged with post-expressionism, as Ríos also
shows, for the very title of Roh's 1925 essay was "Post-Expressionism, Magical Realism".[83] Indeed,
as Lois Parkinson Zamora of the University of Houston writes, "Roh, in his 1925 essay, described a
group of painters whom we now categorize generally as Post-Expressionists."[84]

Roh used this term to describe painting that signaled a return to realism
after expressionism's extravagances, which sought to redesign objects to
reveal the spirits of those objects. Magical realism, according to Roh,
instead faithfully portrays the exterior of an object, and in doing so the
spirit, or magic, of the object reveals itself. One could relate this exterior
magic all the way back to the 15th century. Flemish painter Van Eyck
(1395–1441) highlights the complexity of a natural landscape by creating
illusions of continuous and unseen areas that recede into the background,
leaving it to the viewer's imagination to fill in those gaps in the image: for
instance, in a rolling landscape with river and hills. The magic is
contained in the viewer's interpretation of those mysterious unseen or
Alexander Kanoldt, Still Life hidden parts of the image.[85] Other important aspects of magical realist
II 1922 painting, according to Roh, include:

A return to ordinary subjects as opposed to fantastical ones.

A juxtaposition of forward movement with a sense of distance, as opposed to Expressionism's
tendency to foreshorten the subject.
A use of miniature details even in expansive paintings, such as large landscapes.
The pictorial ideals of Roh's original magic realism attracted new generations of artists through the
latter years of the 20th century and beyond. In a 1991 New York Times review, critic Vivien Raynor
remarked that "John Stuart Ingle proves that Magic Realism lives" in his "virtuoso" still life
watercolors.[86] Ingle's approach, as described in his own words, reflects the early inspiration of the
magic realism movement as described by Roh; that is, the aim is not to add magical elements to a
realistic painting, but to pursue a radically faithful rendering of reality; the "magic" effect on the
viewer comes from the intensity of that effort: "I don't want to make arbitrary changes in what I see to
paint the picture, I want to paint what is given. The whole idea is to take something that's given and
explore that reality as intensely as I can."[87][88]

Later development: incorporating the fantastic

While Ingle represents a "magic realism" that harks back to Roh's
ideas, the term "magic realism" in mid-20th century visual art
tends to refer to work that incorporates overtly fantastic elements,
somewhat in the manner of its literary counterpart.

Occupying an intermediate place in this line of development, the

work of several European and American painters whose most Paul Cadmus, The Fleet's In! 1934
important work dates from the 1930s through to the 1950s,
including Bettina Shaw-Lawrence, Paul Cadmus, Ivan Albright,
Philip Evergood, George Tooker, Ricco, even Andrew Wyeth, such as in his well-known work
Christina's World,[89] is designated as "magic realist". This work departs sharply from Roh's
definition, in that it (according to Artcyclopedia) "is anchored in everyday reality, but has overtones
of fantasy or wonder".[90] In the work of Cadmus, for example, the surreal atmosphere is sometimes
achieved via stylized distortions or exaggerations that are not realistic.

Recent "magic realism" has gone beyond mere "overtones" of the fantastic or surreal to depict a
frankly magical reality, with an increasingly tenuous anchoring in "everyday reality". Artists
associated with this kind of magic realism include Marcela Donoso[91][92][93][94][95] and Gregory
Gillespie.[96][97][98]

Artists such as Peter Doig, Richard T. Scott and Will Teather have become associated with the term in
the early 21st century.

Painters
Alex And Frida Kahlo
Colleen Browning Gayane Khachaturian
Paul Cadmus Henry Koerner
Felice Casorati Simphiwe Ndzube
Alex Colville Michael Parkes
John Rogers Cox Charles Rain
Cagnaccio di San Pietro Mohammad Rawas
Antonio Donghi Ricco
Marcela Donoso Priscilla Roberts
Eyvind Earle Deirdre Sullivan Beeman
Jared French George Tooker
H. R. Giger Ramon Unzueta
Rob Gonsalves Jan Verdoodt
Juan Gonzalez Carel Willink
Edward Hopper Nicholas Zalevsky
Carroll N. Jones III

Film and television

Magical realism is not a clearly defined film genre, but characteristics of magic realism present in
literature can also be found in many moving pictures with fantasy elements. These characteristics may
be presented matter-of-factly and occur without explanation.[99]

Many films have magical realist narrative and events that contrast between real and magical elements,
or different modes of production. This device explores the reality of what exists.[2]: 109–111 Fredric
Jameson, in On Magic Realism in Film, advances a hypothesis that magical realism in film is a formal
mode that is constitutionally dependent on a type of historical raw material in which disjunction is
structurally present.[100][101] Like Water for Chocolate (1992) begins and ends with the first person
narrative to establish the magical realism storytelling frame. Telling a story from a child's point of
view, the historical gaps and holes perspective, and with cinematic color heightening the presence, are
magical realist tools in films.[102]
A number of films by Woody Allen including Midnight in Paris (2011) feature magical realist
elements.[103] Most of the films directed by Terry Gilliam are strongly influenced by magic
realism;[104] the animated films of Satoshi Kon and Hayao Miyazaki often utilize magic realism;[105]
and some of the films of Emir Kusturica contain elements of magical realism, the most notable of
which is Time of the Gypsies (1988).[106]

Some other films and television shows that convey elements of magic realism include:

The Holy Mountain (1973) Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

Big (1988) Life of Pi (2012)
Dreams (1990) Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
Edward Scissorhands (1990) Wolf Children (2012)
Twin Peaks (1990) The Dance of Reality (2013)
Liar Liar (1997) Birdman (2014)
Perfect Blue (1997) The Prophet (2014)
The Green Mile (1999) The Age of Adaline (2015)
Being John Malkovich (1999) Utopians (2015)
Hearts in Atlantis (2001) Endless Poetry (2016)
Amélie (2001) Swiss Army Man (2016)
Millennium Actress (2001) The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
Waking Life (2001) Thirty Years of Adonis (2017)
Big Fish (2003) Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017)
Wonderfalls (2004) The Shape of Water (2017)
The Mistress of Spices (2005) Border (2018)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) Undone (2019)
Paprika (2006) Wendy (2020)
The Fountain (2006) Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2006) I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
John from Cincinnati (2007) Supercool (2021)
Marigold (2007) Where Is Anne Frank (2021)
Skellig (2009) Memoria (2021)
Undertow (2009) Reservation Dogs (2021)
Biutiful (2010) Encanto (2021)
Black Swan (2010) Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Rainbow (2022)
Lives (2010) Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
Once Upon a Time (2011–2018) (2022)
The Tree of Life (2011) All We Imagine as Light (2024)
The Skin I Live In (2011) Megalopolis (2024)

Video games and new media

In his essay "Half-Real", MIT professor and ludologist Jesper Juul argues that the intrinsic nature of
video games is magic realist.[107] Early video games such as the 1986 text adventure Trinity combined
elements of science fiction, fantasy and magic realism.[108] Point-and-click adventure games such as
Kentucky Route Zero (2013) and Memoranda (2017) have also embraced the genre.[109][110] The
Metal Gear franchise has also frequently been cited as a notable example of magic realism, because of
its combination of realistic military fiction with supernatural elements.[111][112][113][114]

In electronic literature, early author Michael Joyce's afternoon, a story deploys the ambiguity and
dubious narrator characteristic of high modernism, along with some suspense and romance elements,
in a story whose meaning could change dramatically depending on the path taken through its lexias
on each reading.[115]

See also
Central conceit – Underlying fictitious assumption of a work of fiction
Novels portal
List of genres – List of different types of entertainment
With reference to literature

Escapist fiction – Genre of fiction Hysterical realism – Pejorative term to

Fantasy – Literary genre describe certain realist-genre books
Latin American Boom – Late 20th-century Low fantasy – Subgenre of fantasy fiction
global proliferation of Latin American literature defined by a "mundane" setting
Hallucinatory realism – Term used by critics in McOndo – Latin American literary movement
describing works of art Southern Gothic – Subgenre of Gothic fiction
With reference to visual art

Fantastic realism – 20th century group of New Objectivity – 1920s German art
artists movement against expressionism
Irrealism (the arts) – irrealism in the arts Visionary art – Art that purports to transcend
Metaphysical art – Italian art style the physical world
With reference to both

Art film – Film genre Postmodernism – Artistic, cultural, and

Escapism – Mental diversion from unpleasant theoretical movement
or boring aspects of life Romantic realism – Art combining
Dream art – Art based on dreams or meant to romanticism and realism
resemble dreams Surrealism – International cultural movement
Imagination – Creative ability (1920s–1950s)
Metarealism – Direction in Russian poetry Utopia – Imaginary community or society
and art possessing highly desirable or perfect
qualities

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Relevant literature
Gintsburg, Sarali, and Kenneth Usongo, eds. Magical Realism in Africa: Literary and Dramatic
Explorations. Taylor & Francis, 2024.

External links
The Essence of Magic Realism - Critical Study of the origins and development of Magic Realism
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Ten Dreams Galleries - A comprehensive discussion of the historical development of Magic
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c-art.htm)
The Magic Realism Time Capsule (http://www.monograffi.com/magic.htm)
Video montage of George Tooker's The Subway, which recreates the mood via pictorial editing
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