The Fantastic in Magic Realism
In a Magic Realist text, anything can happen. You can wake up to find yourself invisible one morning, or you can suddenly sprout wings and start flying, or your dog might start speaking to you in perfect Spanish. The rules of the ordinary, everyday world can be broken at any time.
Yeah, life is usually ordinary. We wake up, we go to work, we sleep, we eat. But Magic Realists remind us that ordinary life also has its extraordinary side. Crazy things do happen to us sometimes, and sometimes the world really does feel out of sync and spectacular.
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All kinds of fantastic stuff takes place in the Truebas house in Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits. Check out these quotes about the supernatural here.
A fantastic transformation is at the heart of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis.