magic realism 
(also magical realism)
noun [mass noun]
A literary or artistic genre in which realistic narrative and naturalistic technique are combined with surreal elements of dream or fantasy.In her new collection of short fiction titled Engum Vaanam, she has introduced a number of narrative techniques that range from fantasy to magical realism....
- I'm really interested to know how you deal with incorporating surrealism or magical realism into your stories.
- His principal mode is literary realism, though his second novel invokes the magic realism of a Toni Morrison work in its portrait of Roscoe's father's ghost.
Derivatives
magic realist
- Stylistically, Pycletius is judged an early magic realist, with tributes to his work by Calvino, Emile dell'Ova, and Borges.
- Think of it as something like a cross between a fairy tale and a magic realist novel.
- The truth about Carroll is that he's a magic realist who plunders our unconscious for profound emotional truths.
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