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 ...

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 ...

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… ...

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 .

García Márquez, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1982, was best known for novels and short stories that use magical realism to blur the lines between fantasy and reality.

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 ...