The literature is often surreal and unconventional.
The artwork is rich with detail and surprisingly mysterious. The genre of magical realism is adventurous and exciting. Famed Japanese authors such as Kobo Abe, Haruki Murakami, Yasunari Kawabata, and Kenzaburo Oe have experimented with magical realist techniques. Contemporary Japanese literature is also known for its use of magical realism. Authors like Gabriel Garcia Marquez of Columbia, Julio Cortazar of Argentina, Carlos Fuentes of Mexico, and Alejo Carpentier of Cuba used magical realist techniques to propelled Latin American literature to the front stage of world literature. Magical realism is commonly associated with Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s. There are also times when characters seem to experience different timelines simultaneously. Even while events proceed through a story, there is always the sense that what is happening will happen again or has already happened. Magical realist works warp the fluidity of time favoring a circular pattern of time instead of linear. Similar genres like science fiction and fantasy create speculative worlds in order accommodate the unreal however, magical realist works use the real world as the setting and any unreal elements of the story exist naturally as if they have always been part of the world. Likewise, the ordinary is often described as spectacular. Literary magical realism refers to a genre of literature that depicts fantastical, supernatural, magical elements as ordinary. Like its German predecessors, these paintings depicted everyday objects with such rich detail that they had a magical quality. Although this movement died out in Germany, American artists like Paul Cadmus and George Tooker painted works of art that closely matched the aesthetics of Roh’s magical realism. The subjects painted by these magical realists were ordinary, but presented in a way that was far from boring. This art depicted ordinary subjects with a mysterious and detached manner. The term “magical realism” was coined in 1925 by German art historian Franz Roh to describe the burgeoning art movement known as Neue Sachlichkeit (“New Objectivity”). Fantasy works create new worlds, but the settings in magic realism are recognizable. Magic realism works could almost happen in the real world. The genre was spearheaded by Latin American authors who used the magical to explore the human condition. Although magical realist works often overlap with surrealism, critics make the distinction that while surrealism is Freudian and cerebral, magical realism is always concerned with external subjects. Magic realism is a genre that's grounded in the real world but has supernatural or magical elements. Magical realism is characterized by an acceptance of the unreal as a natural part of reality, thus creating imaginative and sometimes disturbing worlds. Even for those acquainted with magical realism, it is hard to distinguish it from similar genres like realism, surrealism, fantasy, and science fiction. Magical realism is a muddled and seemingly contradictory style of art and literature.
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