Talk:Magic realism

message: I decided to remove the fantasy portal from the top of the page, which was added a few days ago. I don't think it's accurate to categorize magical realism as a sub-genre of fantasy, or to put that portal in such a prominent position in the article, when there is nothing else in the article that alludes to fantasy at all. Magical realism and fantasy are two genres that may share features, but evolved completely separately from each other, and are parts of completely different literary movements. If it is part of a larger literary movement, I think it would be much more accurate to say it way part of postcolonial literature or postmodern literature, but neither of these categories have a portal of their own.
I can see the logic in the relationship between the two - and have left the portal at the bottom of the page as it is. I hope this is ok! -- User:Daneditsarticles  (talk) 16:53, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Relation to Fantasy / Fantasy Portal

message: Would the Lovely Bones count as an example of Magic Realism?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.141.117.5 (talk) 06:58, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: The Lovely Bones

message: Hey group! Just wondering if anyone has found some good sources for our wiki article? 
Liz, were you able to get to Irving? Any luck?  --Kayohk (talk) 00:01, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Bibliography

message: So group! Here's the deal, once you have your articles/books picked out, edit this section and just add them into our list to create one final list in a simple fashion... Once you hit the edit button, just follow the formatting already existing in the page as you add the texts in.  It's pretty straight forward I think.  Only add new texts, we don't want any repeats. Hope that works! --Medge88 (talk) 05:09, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a good start! Ideally, Wikipedia's articles are global and inclusive, which means they would include discussions of magical realism throughout history and across the whole world. However, that project is enormous. :) Would it help to narrow your focus to "Magical realism in Latin American literature", since that seems to be the focus of your course (am I right about that)? Perhaps we could even create a subarticle on that topic. Awadewit (talk) 02:31, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Long List 

message: What about...
"A Companion to Magical Realism." Hart, Stephen M., Ouyang, Wen-chin. (quite in-depth)
or
"Realismo mágico y lo real maravilloso : una cuestión de verosimilitud : espacio y actitud en cuatro novelas latinoamericanas" Llarena Rosales, Alicia. (focuses on 4 Latin American novels in realismo magico style)
Or we could use, as an example of magical realism lit. 
"Pedro Páramo." Rulfo, Juan. 
PS thanks liz for the list! --Kayohk (talk) 00:50, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: In addition

message: Alright guys, I guess what we should address is how broad we're going to be? How do we want to go about defining magic realism?  I am looking up books in Irving right now and am finding plenty, many with a specific focus on the Americas.  I figure we are mostly responsible for providing a clear, blanket definition of magic realism across the board... Thoughts?  
Sorry for not getting back to you earlier (esp. Liz), for some reason I didn't check our actual group page but instead just checked my own talk page.  --Medge88 (talk) 01:11, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re: everything said so far...  

message: Everything on the page is suspect to revision. We need to read through it carefully and try to ascertain which parts are most necessary, which dispensable, which are non-existent. It seems to me that the page was last edited too...particularly. I feel a kind of 'essay on magic realism' vibe throughout. I don't really like how the list of references is so long and detailed, though that may be what we are required to do. I want to add a music section. The art section needs to be amplified.
My big question to all of us group members is how much should we delve into the works themselves? Is this a critical or a content-based page? I think jb mentioned somewhere/sometime that there is a page dedicated to works of magic realism, but as of yet I have not found it. When jb refers to books (vs articles) that we must collect, are those supposed to be fictional books? So far, I only have non-fictional everything.
I recommend to scour the discussion page which has now been ARCHIVED (towards top right of page). It is a fountain of tips/comments for how we're going to go about editing this page.
I'm at IK Barbsy right now and will try to take out a bunch of books pertaining to art and magic realism. Hopefully this works out. 
Larodge (talk) 02:43, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that it's all subject to revision.  This is an opinion, not a genre of literature. 72.177.123.145 (talk) 04:10, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  To organize 

message: By the end of tonight, probably around 10pm, I'm going to come back on here and compile a complete list of our references. I will skim my list down and hopefully y'allz (other than Medge!) can bulk yours up by then. We need to meet and look at all the books in question together to decide on things; virtual decision-making is extremely limited, IMO. Larodge (talk) 02:48, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  K... 

message: I feel like currently the article doesn't really give a good description of WHAT magical realism is. It's sort of wishy-washy and vague.  The article also just lists examples of works of magical realism in literature, art, and film but doesn't explain in depth why these works are categorized as magical realism.  
Should we go into more depth on magical realism in film? Or take that part out and focus on music instead? 
Another thought: Say we focus on lit., art and music, we could provide an example for each and describe it in-depth? Or should our main focus just be on defining magical realism? I guess this will dictate what sort of sources we keep in our short-list... --Kayohk (talk) 04:48, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree entirely that the article, especially the opening paragraphs, are much too vague in defining magical realism. The term is mentioned numerous times without actually providing a sourced definition. 69.157.244.220 (talk) 03:10, 24 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Thoughts

message: In terms of literature, I think we should focus on Latin America. This will help us narrow down our sources. 
Any ideas on how we should go about creating our shortlist?--Kayohk (talk) 06:37, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: & More...

message: I agree with including a brief subsection on international spread. 
About the short list, sounds good! I wasn't sure what to do about the articles, but for books, I thought we should use:
Magical Realism. Theory, History, Community. Zamora and Faris
Magic Realism. Social context and discourse. Angulo
"A Companion to Magical Realism." Stephen Hart and Ouyang Wen-chin
Catching Butterflies. Bringing magical realism to ground. Takolander (maybe?)
Will wait to see what you've got.--Kayohk (talk) 07:25, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Possible Short list for Novels

message: Thanks for compiling everything Liz. Personally, I think since we're only allowed a handful of novels, we should choose novels that focus on the concept of magical realism and in defining it. For our articles, we can be more specific and include ones that cover magical realism in different arenas (art, music, film) as well as different parts of the world. What do you all think? --Kayohk (talk) 07:59, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: RE: long list & making a short list

message: Here is the paraphrased version of the long list. If new sources need to be added, they should probably go here (probably will get checked more often than the long list). However they should be demarcated so they stand-out against the rest of the already agreed-on sources, so we know there's new material to assess. Right? :),.
Books
Magical Realism. Theory, History, Community. Zamora and Faris
Varieties of Magic Realism Zlotchew
Magic Realism. Social context and discourse. Angulo
Catching Butterflies. Bringing magical realism to ground. Takolander
A Companion to Magical Realism. Hart and Wen-chin
Historia verdadera del realismo mágico Menton 
Realismo mágico y lo real maravilloso : una cuestión de verosimilitud : espacio y actitud en cuatro novelas latinoamericanas Llarena Rosales
Magic realism and Canadian literature anthology of stories AND critical essays
Magic(al) Realism BowersGhosts, metaphor, and history in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude Erickson
ART ORIENTED REFS
Mysterious and magical realism anthology: contains such artists as Marisol, Matta, Romulo Maccio, Dali, Fernando Botero, Enrique Castro
Magic realism - Argentine Artists anthology: ed. Marucco
Six Artists, Six Friends anthology: ed. Cozzolino
El cuerpo en la mirada Benjamin Dominguez
Magic and other realism anthology: ed. Munce
American realists and magic realists anthology: ed. Miller and Barr Jr.
(Last two on American artists but SUCH good sources!)
These texts are not immediately connected to Latin American magic realism. They may be used for a subarticle, but are not of utmost importance.
Magical realism in West African fiction. Seeing with a third eye. Cooper
Magical realism in contemporary Chicano fiction Walter
Uncertain Mirrors. Magical realisms in US ethnic literatures. Benito, Manzanas and Simal
Magic realism anthology of Can. short stories
Articles
#
    * Magical Strategies: The Supplement of Realism
    * Scott Simpkins
    * Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Summer, 1988), pp. 140-154
    * Published by: Hofstra University
    * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/441074
#
    * Magical Realism in Spanish American Fiction
    * Angel Flores
    * Hispania, Vol. 38, No. 2 (May, 1955), pp. 187-192
    * Published by: American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
    * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/335812
#
    * Realismo Magico: True Realism with a Pinch of Magic
    * Lee A. Daniel
    * The South Central Bulletin, Vol. 42, No. 4, Studies by Members of SCMLA (Winter, 1982), pp. 129-130
    * Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press on behalf of The South Central Modern Language Association
    * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3188273
#
    * The Dark Side of Magical Realism: Science, Oppression, and Apocalypse in One Hundred Years of Solitude
    * Brian Conniff
    * MFS Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 36, No. 2 (1990), pp. 167-179
#
    * On Magic Realism in Film
    * Fredric Jameson
    * Critical Inquiry, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Winter, 1986), pp. 301-325
    * Published by: The University of Chicago Press
    * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1343476
#
    * Magic Realism: Defining the Indefinite
    * Jeffrey Wechsler
    * Art Journal, Vol. 45, No. 4, The Visionary Impulse: An American Tendency (Winter, 1985), pp. 293-298
    * Published by: College Art Association
    * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/776800
#
    * Realism without Magic
    * William H. Pritchard
    * The Hudson Review, Vol. 42, No. 3 (Autumn, 1989), pp. 484-492
    * Published by: The Hudson Review, Inc.
    * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3850828
#
    * Julio Cortazar quotes on normal and abnormal movements: Magical realism or reality?
    * M. Merello
    * Movement Disorders, Vol. 21, No. 8 (2006), pp. 1062-1065
#
    * Writing the Vanishing Real: Hyperreality and Magical Realism
    * Eugene L. Arva
    * Journal of Narrative Theory, Vol. 38, No. 1 (2008), pp. 60-85
#
    * Magical Realism
    * Ann Kim and Nancy Pearl
    * Library Journal, Vol. 128, No. 5 (2003), pp. 140-149
#
    * Recognizing Van Eyck: Magical Realism in Landscape Painting
    * Katherine Crawford Luber
    * Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin, Vol. 91, No. 386/387, Recognizing Van Eyck (Spring, 1998), pp. 7-23
    * Published by: Philadelphia Museum of Art
    * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3795460
These texts are not immediately connected to Latin American magic realism. They may be used for a subarticle, but are not of utmost importance.
#
    * Magical Realism and Theatre of the Oppressed in Taiwan: Rectifying Unbalanced Realities with Chung Chiao's Assignment Theatre
    * Ron Smith
    * Asian Theatre Journal, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Spring, 2005), pp. 107-121
    * Published by: University of Hawai'i Press
    * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4137078
#
    * Magical Realism: "Arme Miraculeuse" for the African Novel?
    * Lydie Moudileno
    * Research in African Literatures, Vol. 37, No. 1, Textual Ownership in Francophone African Writing (Spring, 2006), pp. 28-41
    * Published by: Indiana University Press
    * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3821116
#
    * Magical Realism and the Legacy of German Idealism
    * Christopher Warnes
    * The Modern Language Review, Vol. 101, No. 2 (Apr., 2006), pp. 488-498
    * Published by: Modern Humanities Research Association
    * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20466796
We have SO FAR decided to maintain interest in how magic realism plays a part in art, film and music. However we are open to comment/criticism on this decision, and welcome it. :) --Larodge (talk) 08:04, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Please try to thread discussions using indenting. It makes it easier for others to follow. You can do this by adding colons in front of your comments or asterisks. Awadewit (talk) 08:41, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, so hopefully this works with the indent.  I just wanted to make mention of the fact that a couple of the articles I chose weren't that helpful, and so I am going to include "Writing the vanishing real..." by Arva in my list of articles instead of "The Dark Side of Magical Realism...".  Hope that works! Please let me know if it doesn't as I'm trying to get my part of the assignment done by tomorrow. Thanks, --Medge88 (talk) 00:27, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  '''The Short List''' 

message: OK, you guys are really getting off to a good start here: not only have you been compiling your bibliography but you have also started thinking hard about what the article should look like, what it should include, and so on.
As I said to you today, these are my thoughts: 
The term "magic(al) realism" is primarily associated with a group of Latin American writers, mostly in the 1960s to 1980s, although it was used earlier (to characterize some European visual artists) and has been used since (often to describe many more or less "postcolonial" writers especially from the Indian subcontinent) and in other fields (film, for instance).
Unfortunately (I think), the rather peripheral and even tenuous applications of term get too much space in this article at present.  To take but one example, I think that the stuff on Woody Allen can be cut immediately.
In my view it is right that this article should mostly be on the use of this term in the discussion of Latin American literature.  This means that there might be subsections on (for instance) the origin of the term and its use elsewhere and in other fields.  But you should not feel the need to do extensive research beyond the bounds of Latin American literature.
Now it is possible that someone (some other Wikipedia editor) may disagree with this view, however sensible and defensible it is.  If that were to happen, then the solution is quite simple: we could split off part of the article and rename it (something like) "Magic realism in Latin American fiction."
But for the moment let's not worry about that: our focus is on magic realism in Latin American fiction, whether that is said explicitly or not.
Good luck and again, well done for the good start.  --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 22:49, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that the editors should focus on Magic realism in Latin American literature, as that is already a large topic and the focus of the class they are taking (I indicated as much above). However, I'm not quite sure that I agree that this should be the focus of this article. I think it should be part of it, but magical realism has a strong presence in literature outside Latin America (I am unsure about other media). To give one example, the works of Salman Rushdie are a combination of postmodernism and magical realism. I think a subarticle is more manageable and would help the editors focus their research, but ultimately this is up to Jbmurray and the editors themselves. Awadewit (talk) 02:25, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Congrats and scope 

message: So I propose we meet on Sunday. It's not absolutely necessary but it'd be nice. Kayoh and I discussed meeting downtown somewhere, as we're both coming from the North Shore; if that jives with everyone, I suggest Waves on Richards (and Hastings or Pender). A personal fave, buses abound nearby, wifi, DARK HOT CHOK.
I'll check in every once in a'
::--Larodge (talk) 13:25, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Hey I could possibly do that... I have a lot to do tomorrow though, so if it's possible that we meet up later, that would probably be better for me.  I have read all of the articles and taken notes on them, so now all I have to do a few more write-ups and I'll post them up here.  Let me know how that sounds! --Medge88 (talk) 04:05, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  That sounds good to me! I wouldn't mind meeting up later as well, as I also have a lot to do tomorrow :( --Kayohk (talk) 05:51, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  A meeting... 

message: Heyloo, I deleted that whole thread to keep things clean. Hope that was a good call. See ya!
::Larodge (talk) 02:31, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re: anotbib 

message: Hello all! Just wondering, what do you guys think about taking out the last section on visual art? I figured since we decided to focus on Magical realism in literature, maybe this part isn't necessary. I think magical realism in relation to art is covered quite in depth in the "development within visual art" section. However, I have no problem keeping it, if you all think it's important!--Kayohk (talk) 05:48, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Kayoh, I think it's important that we keep it, as the two sects of visual art need special clarification. Yay on being done! --Larodge (talk) 23:47, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggestion for article

message: Since I'm Italian I'm surprised that in your description of magic realism you only refer to the Latino-american authors of this genre.
It's true that in Latin America magical realism has become the mainstream literary genre and it's also true that these Latino-american writers are among the most popular in the whole world today, while in Europe magic realism still remains a minority genre. However, as you say in your historical account on magic realism in visual arts, the expression "realismo magico" has been invented in Italy to label the novels written by Massimo Bontempelli, a former futurist.
And in Italy we also use this label to indicate the novels and screenplays by Cesare Zavattini, like "Miracle in Milan". Furthermore, we call magic realist many movies by Federico Fellini, among which the oscar-winning "Cabiria's nights" and "The road".
So, I think you should expand your analysis to European magic realism.
Lele giannoni (talk) 13:13, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Italian "realismo magico"

message: This article includes a vast quantity of opinions presented as facts and normative judgements. You can barely read a paragraph without it. Just one example among many:
"here are two modes in postmodern literature: one, commercially successful pop fiction, and the other, philosophy, better suited to intellectuals. A singular reading of the first mode will render a distorted or reductive understanding of the text. The fictitious reader - such as Aureliano from 100 Years of Solitude - is the hostage used to express the writer’s anxiety on this issue of who is reading the work and to what ends, and of how the writer is forever reliant upon the needs and desires of readers (the market).[59] The magic realist writer with difficulty must reach a balance between saleability and intellectual integrity."
We have here an example of both. "A singular reading of the first mode will render a distorted or reductive understanding of the text". Adding a citation onto something does not mean that you can present an opinion on literature as some kind of scientific fact. The phrasing needs to be changed. And then we have "The magical realist writer with difficulty must". I don't see why any writer must do anything, myself, much less that a Wikipedia article should be telling them this. If a writer must do anything, it is avoid split infinitives like "with difficulty must".
I think the root of this problem is that the article has been written in a style similar to a Lit essay, not an encyclopaedic entry. 86.185.100.253 (talk) 17:29, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that anyone may contribute to. The intention is that people like you shall make the improvements you find are needed, directly. Please do. If you feel unsure, make only the most important changes first, and see what happens. --Ettrig (talk) 15:27, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes, changing the language is Ok, however important to keep the sources meaning. Zulu Papa 5 * (talk) 16:25, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

text: I was struck by exactly the same problem. The lead, for example, contains all kinds of gratuitous negative generalizations about western culture.--75.83.64.6 (talk) 19:46, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality? 

message: I would like to compile a list of films that have been noted for magical realism.  Likely will create a section in this article and then a category to add to films which have sources noting them for magical realism.  Does this seem like and appropriate start? Zulu Papa 5 * (talk) 14:37, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Films 

message: Most of this article sounds like it was written by a first-year grad student trying as hard as possible to sound like an authority. The overall effect is pedantic, and much of the English is more awkward than scholarly.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.243.20.179 (talk) 17:59, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: This comment was written seven years ago and it's still just as true as it was then. The entire Major topics in criticism page really does sounds like "it was written by a first-year grad student trying as hard as possible to sound like an authority," and I would know because I am a first year grad student. It's entirely too verbose, unclear, and the "Latin American exclusivity" section reads like it was copied straight out of a term paper. Generally the article feels as though it was written by many authors who didn't all agree on the origins, definitions, or goals of magical realism. I would highly recommend that the section be shortened, and that the argument against the Latin American origins of the genre be more heavily sourced and re-worded if it is felt that that section is even necessary.75.166.174.171 (talk) 03:47, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tone of voice 

message: For me it sounds like magic realism has a lot in common with so-called pseudorealism. Perhaps something that could be included in the article. 84.210.60.115 (talk) 20:26, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Pseudorealism

message: There is so little on any Euro magical realism - even connections drawn from Latin America to Europe are shakey. Additionally, not one mention of Boris Vian - yet given all this article says, he is one of the top contenders to be a magical realist!81.102.247.28 (talk) 00:16, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Boris Vian? 

message: Isn't WikiProject Literature more suitable for an article about a genre? — Jeraphine Gryphon (talk) 02:15, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Novels  

message: Article Hallucinatory realism was created at 15:50, 11 October 2012‎. It is stated this is a term used in the translated version of the motivation for Mo Yan's Nobel Prize in Literature. However, hallucinatory realism and magic realism are the same thing in Chinese language. Both of them refer to :zh:魔幻写实主义. I think they are actually same. --Neo-Jay (talk) 06:54, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: *Comment: Hallucinatory realism is currently also being listed in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hallucinatory realism. 8ty3hree (talk) 01:32, 13 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  merge [[Hallucinatory realism]] 

message: It is a little surprising that certain authors, some of whom are famous in the genre, have not been mentioned (not that the article should be a laundry list), either here or in the Wikipedia category list.  These would include Ernesto Sabato, Nobel laureate Miguel Angel Asturias, Francisco Paco Taibo, Avram Tertz, Robert Walser, Felipe Alfau, Fyodor Sologub, Ludwik Vakulik, just off the top of my head.  Others who have produced works in the genre but are not wedded to it would include Mario Vargas Llosa, Thomas Pynchon, Nelson Algren, Luigi Pirandello, Jorge Amado, and Heinrich Boll.  Since the article concentrates, and rightly so, on Latin American fiction, it is a little jarring that Garcia Marquez's intellectual debt to Juan Rulfo gets no mention.  This is well known and requires no great scholarship to uncover it.Euonyman (talk) 01:28, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Authors not mentioned 

message: In Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon, Enoch Root shows up unaged in novel segments set 50 years apart.  The same character also shows up in novels by the same author set centuries earlier.  This seems like enough to get the novel mentioned here.  Keith Henson (talk) 23:59, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cryptonomicon 

message: For the source
Elga Perez-Laborde:"Prologo,"Iconografía de Mitos y Leyendas, Marcela Donoso, . 
The ISBN points to a publication "The law of success in sixteen lessons", not to the source specified in this article.  The same citation in the Spanish Wiki has the same problem. Knife-in-the-drawer (talk) 04:20, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Verification needed 

message: The article says '... Of the four terms, Magical realism is the most commonly used'. Indeed it is - so why is the page entitled 'Magic' and not 'Magical' realism? 'Magical Realism' is a completely standardized term in English when discussing South American fiction , at least, and so IMHO should also be used for any fiction that is being compared with, or assimilated to such fiction. Most of the references using the term 'Magic Realism' have authors who are not native English speakers, or refer to domains other than fiction. So, I feel a name change for the page to 'Magical realism' is in order.
ChengduTeacher (talk) 13:14, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Magical' versus 'Magic' Realism 

message: I'm skeptical that Jorge Luis Borges wrote magical realism.
I've read all of his collected stories.  Could someone please point me to one that's a clear example of magical realism?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:18A:8101:B470:551E:3F06:89EE:A190 (talk) 22:24, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jorge Luis Borges? 

message: The New media subheading contains a reference (without citation) to Pamela Sacred and her story La Voie de l'ange, "a continuation of The Diary of Anne Frank written in French by a fictional character from her Venetian Cell hypertext saga." I've scoured the internet for information about this and I literally can't find anything! Nothing about Pamela Sacred and her work at all! What the hell? Does anyone know what this is referring to?
Christmasoratorio (talk) 21:03, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello Christmasoratorio, while doing some research on video games & magic realism, I found a reference for your quest.--Herbert Ashe (talk) 01:11, 24 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Media 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Whenever a piece of art looks surreal, but it's actually a reflection of the reality without any mise-en-scène.
After a nose job, nice to still possess nostrils—though some may differ. — MaxEnt 19:56, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing main verb 

message: I noticed that the intro contains a bunch of examples of Bengali authors, but the body of the article does not make any mention of them. I'm not familiar with magic realism, but this implies to me that either Bengali literature is an epicenter of/major contributor to the development of magic realism and deserves coverage in the body, or that the examples in the intro should be cut down to include only more notable authors. - Sdkb (talk) 12:01, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Examples in intro 

message: The Magical realism#Latin American exclusivity subsection reads like someone's personal essay reacting to statements elsewhere in the article. I have marked it as OR, although Template:Essay-like might have been better. Either way, it needs to be fixed. 192.91.173.42 (talk) 00:15, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Latin American exclusivity 

message: In the section Latin American exclusivity, I changed the following sentence:
"Russian author, Nikolai Gogol and his story "The Nose" (1835), is also a predecessor to the Hispanic origin theory."
to this:
"The Russian author Nikolai Gogol and his story "The Nose" (1835) is also a predecessor to the Hispanic origin theory."
I'm not certain if my removal of the commas was implemented well, since I think it may have been better to move it to after "Gogol". I'm also not sure if my addition of the definite article was a good idea. Could anyone please tell me what the best option is?--Thylacine24 (talk) 02:36, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uncertain about my edit