In Magic Realist literature, the most fantastic, crazy things are told in a very matter-of-fact way. Your mom turned into a German shepherd? No biggie. Your wallpaper started talking to you? Happen...

Magic Realism is all about mixing things up: the fantastic with the mundane, the ordinary with the extraordinary, dream life with waking life, reality and unreality. If you want to be fancy-shmancy...

Magic Realist writers often draw inspiration and material from all kinds of myths—ancient myths, modern myths, religious myths and all sorts of other myths. For one thing, myths are a ready sourc...

Magic Realist works usually fall into one of two categories: they're either novels or short stories. Magic Realists are drawn to these kinds of prose narrative partly because they're both so flexib...

In a Magic Realist text, anything can happen. You can wake up to find yourself invisible one morning, or you can suddenly sprout wings and start flying, or your dog might start speaking to you in p...

So now you may be asking: if Magic Realists are obsessed with the fantastic and writing about the fantastic, doesn't that just make them fantasy writers? Nope. And here's why: while Magic Realists...

Time does some weird stuff in Magic Realist literature. Sometimes it loops back instead of moving forward. Sometimes it zigzags all over the place, or skips forward, or stays still and doesn't move...

Magic Realism may be full of extraordinary, fantastic stuff, but that doesn't mean that it has nothing to do with the political reality of the world we live in. In fact, Magic Realist authors are f...

Magic Realism as we know it wouldn't exist if it weren't for Surrealism, a movement in the visual arts and literature that developed in Europe in the early 1920s.Surrealism was all about blurring t...

You can't talk about Magic Realism without talking about the Latin American Boom. That's the explosion of Latin American literature that took place primarily between the 1960s and 1980s. During thi...