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A review by mdbow22
Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology by Virginia Woolf, David Young, Carlos Fuentes, Bruno Schulz, Alejo Carpentier, Isaac Babel, John Cheever, Vladimir Nabokov, Julio Cortázar, Robert Escarpit, Milan Kundera, Octavio Paz, Alfonso Reyes, Rainer Maria Rilke, Henri Michaux, Henry James, Clarice Lispector, Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Yury Olesha, Vjekoslav Kaleb, D.H. Lawrence, Donald Barthelme, Aníbal Monteiro Machado, Eudora Welty, Osip Mandelstam, María Luisa Bombal, Tommaso Landolfi, Thomas Mann, Leo Tolstoy, Franz Kafka, Keith Hollaman, Italo Calvino, Nikolai Gogol, William Faulkner, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Elizabeth Bishop
3.0
This would be a fantastic book for a class studying Magical Realism. Not so great for reading on your own. I wanted to have discussions about the stories and talk about the literary significance and what the use of fantastical elements meant.