magical realist
Ordinary meets impossible
A magical realist is a writer or artist who works in magical realism—a style that weaves supernatural or fantastical elements into otherwise realistic settings without treating them as remarkable.
Gabriel García Márquez and Isabel Allende are canonical magical realists.
The term also describes the work itself: a magical realist novel set in rural Colombia.
- mythTraditional explanatory tale
- supernaturalBeyond natural explanation
- spirit worldRealm of the dead
- fictionImagined narrative work
- dream logicIrrational nocturnal narrative sense
Isabel Allende · blurred boundaries · the arts · storytelling · enchantment · narrative · indigenous traditions · ancestral memory · village life · visual arts · Toni Morrison · Salman Rushdie · liminality · literature · prose · artist · postcolonialism · defamiliarization
magical realistrealist
One accepting hard truths
naturalist · documentary filmmaker · journalist · literalist
magical realistrationalist
One guided by reason
empiricist · materialist · literalist · skeptic · positivist
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