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Magic Realism is the term first used by Franz Roh to described a quasi-surrealistic work by a group of German painters, but the term evolved to include fictional prose work from the 1940s that incorporate both realistic and fantastic elements.
Magical Realism
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Gabriel García Márquez and Magical Realism
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