Magic realism (or magical realism) is an artistic
genre in which magical elements appear in an otherwise realistic setting.As used today the term is broadly descriptive rather than critically rigorous. The term was initially used by
German art critic
Franz Roh to describe painting which demonstrated an altered reality, but was later used by
Venezuelan Arturo Uslar-Pietri to describe the work of certain
Latin American writers. The
Cuban writer
Alejo Carpentier (a friend of Uslar-Pietri) used the term "lo real maravilloso" (roughly "marvelous reality") in the prologue to his novel
The Kingdom of this World (1949). Carpentier's conception was of a kind of heightened reality in which elements of the miraculous could appear while seeming natural and unforced. Carpentier's work was a key influence on the writers of the
Latin American "boom" that emerged in the 1960s.
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