Magical realism is still a staple for literature courses all over the world. Hollywood has cashed in on tales like Isabel Allende's "The House of the Spirits" and Laura Esquivel's "Like Water for ...

Grossman doesn’t like to refer to his work as magical realism. “He uses fantasy in a way that writers always have,” she says. “He uses fantasy to tell the truth; that is what literature does.

Los Angeles Times Sunday April 15, 2007 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 2 National Desk 0 inches; 24 words Type of Material: Correction Roberto Bolano: A headline on an article in today’s ...

First, Allende ignores the shining existence of a classic of Spanish language literature on the topic of Haiti and its slave rebellion. I refer to Alejo Carpentier’s The Kingdom of this World .

Magic realism has become so commonplace, so trivialized, that its future as a mirror of deeper truth is being compromised. The technique has begun to lose its usefulness as a literary device. The l… ...

The Life of Pi, Yann Martel / Amazon. Perhaps the best-known example of magical realism in literature from the 21st century is Life of Pi.Yann Martel’s novel follows a boy stranded at sea for ...