Hi I'm looking for suggestions of holiday reads in the above 'genre' for a friend. Can you help? Cheers. S

Why not let them try Lisey's Story by Stephen King? I really enjoyed it and it seems to tick all the relevant boxes.

JB

Will do. Thanks. S

Anything by Marquez or Borges.
Or something not exactly magic realist but along those lines like The Beach by Alex Garland or The Magus by John Fowles.
Or Paul Auster - In The Country Of Last Things
Kafka - Metamorphosis
Anything by Russell Hoban

The Book of Lost Things - John Connelly?

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Love, love, love Metamorphosis.

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Marquez
Midnight's Children, Rushdie
Tin Drum, Gunther Grass


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By the way Metamorphosis is not an example of magical realism.

Robertson Davies.

But apart from that, I keep seeing the title of this thread and thinking it's the readerly equivalent of 'tall, dark and handsome'...

Emma

Actually, Kafka's Metamorphosis is a classic example of magical realism. Everything in the story, apart from the eponymous metamorphosis is realistic and described as such. Gregor's transformation is thus highlighted, stark against a very dreary and 'actual' background. As such, the story works fine as a piece of magical realism and this is an aceepted literary fact by scholars throughout the world.

JB



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Magical realism as a term relates to stories that, at their core, have a relationship between the real and the 'fantastic'.