43 Quotes About Magic-realism


  • Author Isabel Allende
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    Life is very mysterious and there are many things we don't know. And there are elements of magic realism in every culture, everywhere. It's just accepting that we don't know everything and everything is possible.

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  • Author Angela Carter
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    My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.

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  • Author Alan Lightman
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    I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.

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  • Author Sam Neill
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    Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It resonates with me.

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  • Author Terri Windling
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    Magic Realism is not new. The label's new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it's been around as long as literature has been around.

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