Magic Realism

Magic realism or magical realism is an aesthetic style or genre of fiction in which magical elements blend to create a realistic atmosphere that accesses a deeper understanding of reality. The story explains these magical elements as normal occurrences, presented in a straightforward manner that places the "real" and the "fantastic" in the same stream of thought. It is a literary and visual art genre; creative fields that exhibit less significant signs of magic realism include film and music.
The term is broadly descriptive rather than critically rigorous: Matthew Strecher defines magic realism
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Kafka on the Shore
The House of the Spirits
The Night Circus
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Like Water for Chocolate
Love in the Time of Cholera
Midnight’s Children
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The Master and Margarita
Red Russia
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
Beloved
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Maya Realm, Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light

Maya Realm
Illuminated from within we radiate the surface as we are all the one — knowing that in the one is the all.
Maya Realm, Roam Within: Macallah and the White World of Light

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