magic realism
noun
a style of painting and literature in which fantastic or imaginary and often unsettling images or events are depicted in a sharply detailed, realistic manner.
magic realist
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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
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
Mr. Tooker, often called a symbolic, or magic, realist, worked well outside the critical mainstream for much of his career, relegated to the margins by the rise of abstraction.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2011
"I was wondering when a magic realist would appear," she replies.
From The Guardian ● May 10, 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
