Magic Realism

Magic realism or magical realism is an aesthetic style or genre of fiction in which magical elements blend to create a realistic atmosphere that accesses a deeper understanding of reality. The story explains these magical elements as normal occurrences, presented in a straightforward manner that places the "real" and the "fantastic" in the same stream of thought. It is a literary and visual art genre; creative fields that exhibit less significant signs of magic realism include film and music.
The term is broadly descriptive rather than critically rigorous: Matthew Strecher defines magic realism
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Kafka on the Shore
The House of the Spirits
The Night Circus
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Like Water for Chocolate
Midnight’s Children
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The Master and Margarita
Red Russia
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
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Suzy  Davies
The trees are bedecked with snow, the air is perfumed; how sweet, how dark the sultry fragrance. Forever hypnotising, always haunting. I want to inhale the fragrance of your skin, drink from your open mouth.
Suzy Davies, Johari's Window

Teodora Gheorghe
De când îi crescuse un mic cireş pe umărul stâng, viaţa lui se întorsese cu susul în jos. Puţinii prieteni pe care îi avea erau de negăsit, colegii de redacţie îi adresau cuvinte cu zgârcenie, iar vecinii îl ocoleau. Ba uneori îi aruncau câte o privire piezișă şi îşi dădeau ochii peste cap. Copăcelul era mic, cam cât degetul lui arătător şi trebuia udat o dată la trei zile, altfel îl durea. Făcea nişte cireşe minuscule, ca nişte pistrui. Nu înţelegea de unde atitudinea asta ostilă faţă de el, că ...more
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