![]() ![]() One writer who is able to successfully maintain that balance, however, is the world-renowned novelist Haruki Murakami, and his most recent venture into the genre, First Person Singular: Stories, does as great of a job of keeping to that as his other works. The end result is a story that’s not fully realistic and not fully fantastical, something in-between all of that, and as a result, it ends up not only being confusing for readers to define but a challenge for writers to properly write while properly toeing the line between fantasy and reality. Magical realism is a rather tricky genre for people to get invested in, mostly because of how hard it is for the average person to define.Įssentially, magical realism is the telling of a realistic story with fantastical elements, but the fantastical elements are downplayed, sometimes not even real, and are used primarily to enhance the realistic aspects of the story. ![]()
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