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
The book typifies Ms. Broner’s novelistic style: experimental, nonlinear and magic realist, suffused with myth, mysticism and sensory experience.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2011
He is almost a magic realist before the fact.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 27, 2010
He was a musical magic realist, a "Natural Mystic", a man who had visions of Jah, but believed in looking "for yours on earth."
From Time Magazine Archive
