A review by mdbow22
Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology by Keith Hollaman, Alejo Carpentier, Nikolai Gogol, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, John Cheever, Clarice Lispector, Thomas Mann, Robert Escarpit, Milan Kundera, Donald Barthelme, Bruno Schulz, D.H. Lawrence, Henry James, Vladimir Nabokov, Gabriel García Márquez, Virginia Woolf, Isaac Babel, Elizabeth Bishop, Italo Calvino, Tommaso Landolfi, Leo Tolstoy, María Luisa Bombal, Vjekoslav Kaleb, Henri Michaux, David Young, Franz Kafka, William Faulkner, Osip Mandelstam, Carlos Fuentes, Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, Jorge Luis Borges, Aníbal Monteiro Machado, Eudora Welty, Rainer Maria Rilke, Alfonso Reyes, Yury Olesha

3.0

This would be a fantastic book for a class studying Magical Realism. Not so great for reading on your own. I wanted to have discussions about the stories and talk about the literary significance and what the use of fantastical elements meant.