MAGIC REALISM

Since Kafka wrote his surreal tales a century ago, a school of fiction writing known as "magical realism" swept the literary world, particularly South America. Several North American novelists have made strong contributions, with five especially notable.

Magic Realism or El Realismo Magico refers to the literary custom of mixing the real and the supernatural. Authors depict subjects as complex as politics and also socioeconomic situations such as family and communal life with a hint of the extraordinary!

What do writers and readers expect from fiction that contains magic?

Alice Hoffman, Daniel Wallace, Sarah Addison Allen, Audrey Niffenegger and Aimee Bender offer riveting stories that bring fairy tales and fables to modern life through magical realism.

Kelly Link is one of the greatest American short story authors of all time. Link has won numerous awards. Her stories are considered magic realism, a combination of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, and realism.

Coupled with straightforward melodrama and magic realism, "December Boys" brings back good old-fashioned storytelling and filmmaking with its visually well-mounted and nostalgia-tinged bearing.

Magical Realism is a fiction genre that goes against the accepted principles of our reality. Things that are commonly accepted as hard facts, like gravity and the flow of time, are contradicted in typical everyday situations.

Discussion of how overuse of magic can leave it plain and flavorless, and ruin your setting.

Want to bring some realism into your fantasy work? Tired of not knowing how much an army should eat or how long it really takes to build a castle?

Skylight Confessions by Alice Hoffman is a character-driven novel that will appeal to those that enjoy thinking about the decisions we make and how those impact the rest of our lives, even when a decision seems small.

This article attempts to do away with the illusion that "healthy is hard" suggests a few ways that we can create easy routines to stay healthy.

A study of Thomas Chestre's Sir Launfal as a deliberate adaptation of Marie de France's Launval, rather than a simple imitation.

If you are a SCUBA enthusiast in search of a unique and exciting underwater adventure, you could wish upon a star, confer with your mirror mirror, or simply plan your next dive trip to Walt Disney World, Florida for an experience that will capture your imagination .

In this illusion getting shot at becomes reality.

This essay examines the history of the Cuban Revolution as portrayed in Thomas C. Wright's book, "Latin American in the Era of the Cuban Revolution, as it pertains to Gabriel García Márquez's novel "Cien Años de Soledad" (One Hundred Years of Solitude).

An historical, cultural and personal analysis of Oracio Quiroga's life in Buenos Aires, Argentina during the time period that he wrote "La Gallina Degollada."

An examination of themes of alienation and acceptance in contemporary Native American literature, using the novels FOOLS CROW and A YELLOW RAFT IN BLUE WATER

The endurance of myths in our cultural lives.

Zathura is the latest adaptation of the children's books of Chris Van Allsburg. It has essentially the same plot as Jumanji, which was a good film on its own. Considering the poor reviews of Jumanji, why make a sequel?

Truth and Dare: New York Korean Film Festival 2005, running from Sept 2-11, 2005, boasts an impressive sampling of contemporary Korean cinema, both popular and critically successful films.

If you've never seen it, you owe it to yourself to watch one of the best shows of the 90s.