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What is Magical Realism?

What is Magical Realism?

Update: 2025-11-19
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Vanessa Diaz is back to talk with Jeff and Rebecca about what magical realism is, where it comes from, and how to talk about it.


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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriela Garcia Marquez


Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel


The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende


Labyrinths or Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges


Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar


The Storyteller’s Death by Ann Dávila Cardinal


The Cemetery of Untold Stories by Julia Alvarez


Magical/Realism by Angelica Villareal


The Week of Colors by Elena Garro, Megan McDowell (trans.)


The Queen of Swords by Jazmina Barrera, Christina MacSweeney (trans.)


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