magic realism
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7.3
- noun
- /ˈmædʒɪk ˈriːəlɪzəm/
- Literature
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realismo mágico
- The author's latest work showcases a unique blend of magic realism that captivates the reader's imagination.
Examples
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Or like magic realism, like One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Blog text (29) -
The passage also provides a good example of Novas Calvo's use of magic realism (or border writing).
Academic text (1995) -
South of the border, her style might be called "magic realism."
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Besides, the actual stories that circulate in the real world about Le Fleur, the apocryphal stories, lent themselves to magic realism.
Academic text (2008) -
The primitive enters American art through limner artists and finds its first culmination in Copley's "magic realism."
Academic text (2001) -
Reading her work chronologically, one can find her range expanding from sharp day-to-day observations to forays into the surreal and magic realism.
Blog text (10) -
Men-ton's linking of Schwarz-Bart's work to the tradition of magic realism represents the first serious attempt to approach the novel on literary rather than theological grounds.
Academic text (1996) -
In Latin American literature, magic realism often presents ordinary characters in extraordinary situations.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez is renowned for his use of magic realism in novels like One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Antonyms
- Literature
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8.1
An art and writing movement in 1800s France that shows everyday life in a real way
How Surreal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase literally combines 'magic' and 'realism', so a learner who knows both words can infer a general sense of realism mixed with magical elements. However, the specific literary meaning — how the fantastical is integrated seamlessly into realistic narrative (a technical genre term, found cross-linguistically as in Spanish realismo mágico) requires background knowledge, so the relation is only partially predictable.
Etymology
The term magic realism came from writers who put small, strange magic into very normal scenes, for example a woman who floats at a party and everyone treats it as nothing unusual. So, magic realism means a way of telling stories that mixes realism ('everyday life') and magic ('fantasy'), making strange events feel part of normal life.