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Novels/manga that have a character or character(s) struggling with emotional disturbances either tied to traumatic events or not. Magic or magical realism is used as a metaphor for the character's emotional disturbances or is simply a focus of the novel.
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92 books · 92 voters · list created July 22nd, 2011 by Meena (votes) .
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message 1: by Mike (new)

Mike A lot of these are not what I would call magical realism. The Stranger is completely realistic fiction, no supernatural elements at all. And books like Death Note, Animal Farm, Battle Royale, or Alice in Wonderland have too many supernatural elements to be considered realism. Does anybody else feel this way? I don't want to remove any books without being sure.


message 2: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Jan 21, 2017 08:57AM) (new)

BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) I agree with Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (#3), Animal Farm (#13) and The Stranger (#18), as I have read them and wouldn't call them magical realism. But the title of the Listopia is " Best Psychological, Magical Realism Fiction" and I guess people can put lots of books on this list if they consider them either psychological or magic(al) realism and I guess the description ("Novels/manga that have a character or character(s) struggling with emotional disturbances either tied to traumatic events or not. Magic or magical realism is used as a metaphor for the character's emotional disturbances or is simply a focus of the novel") enhances this.

I've only voted for one book myself (and added a few others), even though there were several titles on this list I've read but which I personally would never have added as I have a different perception of the term 'magic realism', but that's just me :-)


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