magic realist
- a word derived from magic realism.
Example Sentences
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Quick with a label, critics have called Carroll a magic realist, a slipstream novelist, a writer of supernatural thrillers and the creator of modern fairy tales.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2023
In his “New Paintings” show at the Alexandre Gallery, Tom Uttech continues his work as the magic realist painter of environmental consciousness.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2017
Starting in the nineteen-eighties, she published some of her most accomplished work—fiction that was realist, magic realist, postmodernist, and sui generis.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2016
He is almost a magic realist before the fact.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 27, 2010
Chris Van Allsburg is a magic realist whose haunting illustrations are full of silence and mystery -- perhaps too much mystery for his slender narratives.
From Time Magazine Archive
