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Magic Realism

 noun
     
Magic Realism [uncountable]
a style of imaginative novel writing connected especially with 20th century writers from Latin America, such as Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, and Isabel Allende, in which impossible events are described as if they are real
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