A review by abbie_ohara
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

1.0

This is possibly the worst anthology I have ever encountered. MAGICAL REALISM WAS INVENTED IN LATIN AMERICA. Yet we are only discussing about 5 writers from the global south??? This is disgusting and I’m frankly appalled. There is a fundamental failure in distinguishing magical realism from the entire genre of modernism here. I should have guessed this was a whitewashed mess from the cover. German magical realism will always be secondary to the endeavors of the Global South.