Magic Realism and Surrealism
Surrealism (1920s)
Magic Realism (1940s)
*Post World War I movement in Europe
*Explores distortions of reality&truth
*Questions rationality of human thought
*Explores the "deep mind" of the
dream or psychological state.
*Began in Latin American in the 1940s
*Encourages an equal acceptance of
the ordinary and the extraordinary in
storytelling.
*Fuses the everyday with the fantastic
*Provides an implicit criticism of society
using both reality and fantasy.
*Magical realism focuses on
ordinary people going about the
humdrum activities of daily life.
Everything is normal—except for one
or two elements that go beyond the
realm of possibility...the magic or
fantastic is unexpected.
Authors: Andre Breton (French Author)
Louis Aragon (French Author)
Salvador Dal (Spanish Painter)
Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis (German) 
Authors:
Gabriel Garcia Marques (Columbian)
Jorge Luis Borges (Argentinian)
Gunter Grass (German)
What Magical Realism Isn’t
http://michellewittebooks.com/2015/08/what-magical-realism-isnt/