More than 40 years after the release of her first novel, the best-selling Chilean-American author reflects on the reason she is drawn to stories that blend the mundane with the extraordinary.

He wrote a book in 1925 – Post-expressionism: Problems of the newest European Painting in which Roh devised the word magic realism. There is a lot of confusion about the definition of magic realism.

Magical realism is such a strange genre - sometimes ... as this book has been out for years, meaning this version is after it's been edited and looked at multiple times. One of the highlights ...

However, it was those bad times (as well as his socialist-realist phase, which ‘destroyed his art’, according to Herbert) that led to Wróblewski’s work verging on surrealism and being closer to ...