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
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
At the same time, he fended off attempts to define him as a surrealist or a magic realist.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2011
"I was wondering when a magic realist would appear," she replies.
From The Guardian ● May 10, 2010
He recognizes the ordinary without ridiculing it, but his ordinary is loony enough for any South American magic realist.
From Time Magazine Archive
