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⌈ Secret Post #3370 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Magic Realism

[(Anonymous)]

1) Magical realism is set in our world or one very close to it that is recognizably real-ish and modern. And it is engaged with important features of the real world, not merely placed in a real world.

2) Magical realism is unconcerned with things like magic systems and rigorous accounts of powers, with concepts of magic often being drawn directly from folklore or even fairy tales. The emphasis will usually be more on the emotions and actions of the characters, rather than on the magic specifically.

3) Magical realism tends to be novelistic literary fiction and action will tend to be dramatic and emotional with a great emphasis placed on thematic complexity and prose quality, whereas more mainstream fantasy is going to be adventure-centered or mystery-based or something along those lines.

I'd say those are going to be your main differentiators that you're going to check. So you're going to be thinking of things like Gabriel Garcia Marquez or, in English, something like John Crowley's "Little, Big." It generally originates mostly in Spanish-language literature (and also some Eastern European stuff) and kind of radiates out from there.

Of course, like any genre, the definition gets pretty tricky after a certain point, but that's the basic thing that people are talking about when they talk about magical realism.

Re: Magic Realism

[(Anonymous)]

Here's the Encyclopedia of Fantasy entry, which is much more authoritative and which I should have just posted to start but I didn't think of it until after:

http://sf-encyclopedia.uk/fe.php?nm=magic_realism

Re: Magic Realism

[(Anonymous)]

so magic realism is basically a story w purple prose?

Re: Magic Realism

[(Anonymous)]

Purple prose is not quality prose! Purple prose is very bad prose!

But more to the point, yeah, magic realism is generally going to be more writerly than mainstream fantasy, and it's generally going to be coming from people who are more aligned with the broader literary community. I don't think that's a bad thing, although it's certainly not to everyone's taste.

To be honest, I'm not entirely sure where you're coming from here.