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Magical realism

A literary mode in which fantastical or impossible events are presented matter-of-factly within an otherwise realistic narrative, with neither the characters nor the narrator treating them as remarkable. Associated most closely with Latin American writers of the mid-20th century — Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, Jorge Luis Borges — though earlier antecedents exist in European fiction. The mode is often used to express collective myth, folk memory, or political trauma in registers that strict realism cannot easily capture.

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