What is Magical Realism?
Associated with Latin American writers like Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the wider 'Boom' of the 1960s-70s, magical realism presents the supernatural without surprise, blurring the line between the mundane and the miraculous. It differs from fantasy in that the marvelous is woven into everyday reality rather than set in a separate imagined world.
Example books
- One Hundred Years of Solitude , Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Like Water for Chocolate , Laura Esquivel
- The House of the Spirits , Isabel Allende