Magic realism has become so commonplace, so trivialized, that its future as a mirror of deeper truth is being compromised. The technique has begun to lose its usefulness as a literary device. The l… ...

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Magical realism is most often used to describe the literary subgenre popularized by Latin American writers in the 1950s such as Jose Martí and Ruben Darío.

Magical realism, it says--the literary style that made the mundane seem marvelous and put Latin American fiction on bookshelves everywhere--is dead. As dead as jackbooted generalissimos, ...

Escape into fantastical magical realism books Imagine baking emotions into food. Chit-chatting with ghosts on your subway ...

Magical realism is a genre that has origins in South American literature. It now encompasses writers globally, but typically magical realism comes out of heavily colonized countries—places like ...

Magical realism first appeared in the works of Latin American novelists like Gabriel Garcia Márquez and Jorge Luis Borges. Novelists of this style allow fantasy to coexist with realism, so that ...

Instead, magical realism is taking hold in primetime. “Pushing Daisies” is the most different-looking pilot in years. It’s an hour full of wonder, ...

Onscreen, magical realism has proved notoriously hard to replicate: The visual effects used to create such moments at times tipped at times into fantasy or horror, or just looked silly, critics said.