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I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie. I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.
Alan Lightman

Meaning of "magic realist" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MAGIC REALIST

magic realist  [ˈmædʒɪk ˈrɪəlɪst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MAGIC REALIST

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Magic realist is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MAGIC REALIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

magic realist

Magic realism

Magic realism or magical realism is a genre where magic elements are a natural part in an otherwise mundane, realistic environment. Although it is most commonly used as a literary genre, magic realism also applies to film and the visual arts. One example of magic realism occurs when a character in the story continues to be alive beyond the normal length of life and this is subtly depicted by the character being present throughout many generations. On the surface the story has no clear magical attributes and everything is conveyed in a real setting, but such a character breaks the rules of our real world. The author may give precise details of the real world such as the date of birth of a reference character and the army recruitment age, but such facts help to define an age for the fantastic character of the story that would turn out to be an abnormal occurrence such as someone living for two hundred years. The term is broadly descriptive rather than critically rigorous: Professor Matthew Strecher defines magic realism as "what happens when a highly detailed, realistic setting is invaded by something too strange to believe.

Definition of magic realist in the English dictionary

The definition of magic realist in the dictionary is someone who uses a style of painting or writing that depicts images or scenes of surreal fantasy in a representational or realistic way.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MAGIC REALIST


aerialist
ˈɛərɪəlɪst
antimaterialist
ˌæntɪməˈtɪərɪəlɪst
antirealist
ˌæntɪˈrɪəlɪst
cerealist
ˈsɪərɪəlɪst
curialist
ˈkjʊərɪəlɪst
editorialist
ˌɛdɪˈtɔːrɪəlɪst
hyperrealist
ˌhaɪpəˈrɪəlɪst
imperialist
ɪmˈpɪərɪəlɪst
industrialist
ɪnˈdʌstrɪəlɪst
managerialist
ˌmænɪˈdʒɪərɪəlɪst
materialist
məˈtɪərɪəlɪst
memorialist
mɪˈmɔːrɪəlɪst
mercurialist
mɜːˈkjʊərɪəlɪst
ministerialist
ˌmɪnɪˈstɪərɪəlɪst
neorealist
ˌniːəʊˈrɪəlɪst
photorealist
ˌfəʊtəʊˈrɪəlɪst
pictorialist
pɪkˈtɔːrɪəlɪst
realist
ˈrɪəlɪst
serialist
ˈsɪərɪəlɪst
territorialist
ˌterɪˈtɔːrɪəlɪst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MAGIC REALIST

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magic
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magic eye
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magic number
magic realism
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magic square
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magical realist
magically
magician
magicked
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WORDS THAT END LIKE MAGIC REALIST

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brutalist
capitalist
centralist
finalist
fundamentalist
generalist
hospitalist
idealist
journalist
mentalist
minimalist
nationalist
naturalist
Orientalist
photojournalist
removalist
sensationalist
socialist
specialist
vocalist

Synonyms and antonyms of magic realist in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «magic realist» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MAGIC REALIST

Find out the translation of magic realist to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of magic realist from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «magic realist» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

神奇的现实主义
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

realismo mágico
570 millions of speakers

English

magic realist
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जादू यथार्थवादी
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

الواقعية السحرية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

магия реалист
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

realista mágico
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জাদু বাস্তবতাবাদী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

réaliste magique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Realis sihir
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Magie Realist
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

魔法の現実主義者
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

마법의 현실
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Realist magic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ma thuật hiện thực
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மாய யதார்த்தம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जादूची वास्तववादी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Büyülü realist
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

realismo magico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

magia realista
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

магія реаліст
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

realist magie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μαγικό ρεαλιστής
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

magic realistiese
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

magiska realist
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

magisk realist
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about magic realist

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QUOTES WITH «MAGIC REALIST»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word magic realist.
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Alan Lightman
I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie. I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MAGIC REALIST»

Discover the use of magic realist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to magic realist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Magic Realist Cinema in East Central Europe
Magic Realist Cinema in East Central Europe explores the interlocking complexities of two liminal concepts: magic realism and East Central Europe.
Aga Skrodzka, 2012
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Rediscovering Magical Realism in the Americas
He acknowledges that it "would be pointless to define a limit or threshold beyond which a novel clearly embodies magic realism, or an exact number of particular features that define a text as magic realist," and he says that he "has been merely  ...
Shannin Schroeder, 2004
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Magic(al) Realism
(1943) even identified the hyper-realist American painter Edward Hopper (1882– 1967) who is famous for his smooth and photographic style and quiet, city-scapes , as an exponent of magic realist art (Menton 1998:219–220). The influence of ...
Maggie Ann Bowers, 2013
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Bohemian Cats
Featuring eighty full-colour, detailed illustrations and four panoramic pull-out spreads, this is a fantastic experience of the bizarre and beautiful - and the purr-fect gift for cat fanciers everywhere!
Karen Mahony, Alex Ukolov, Ferenc Weiss, 2004
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Encyclopedia of the Novel
Just as the unexpected, inexplicable, and unbelievable come out of nowhere in people's daily lives, so too do such events emerge in magic realist writing. The reader's attempts to connect these disparate, seemingly unrelated events are ...
Paul Schellinger, 2014
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Concepts of Realism
The continuing popularity of this kind of fiction also owes to the fact that the political connotations of Latin American magic realist authors — Gabriel Garcia Marquez foremost among them — have carried over into the, sometimes not even self- ...
Luc Herman, 1996
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Bibliographic Guide to Gabriel García Márquez, 1992-2002
Magical Insurrections: Cultural Resistance and the Magic Realist Novel in Latin America. Ph.D. dissertation, Colchester, United Kingdom: University of Essex, 1996, (AAGC53 11 93). Spindler discusses extensively the cultural issues that ...
Nelly S. Gonzalez, 2003
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The Tarot of Prague Kit
Lavish, beautifully produced book and tarot deck evoking the rich imagery of the Magic City.
Magic Realist Press, Karen Mahony, Alex Ukolov, 2004
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Dance of the Sexes: Art and Gender in the Fiction of Alice Munro
The subjects of magic realist painters are ordinary objects which are painted in a mysterious photographic reality that is described by John Metcalf in his conversation with Alice Munro as "the magic of the ordinary. "17 Geoff Hancock has ...
Beverly Jean Rasporich, 1990
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Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community
... whose various offshoots require more precise and specific definitions. I would like to point out at the outset that one should perhaps refrain, at least when referring to contemporary works in English, from speaking of "magic realist writers ," for ...
Lois Parkinson Zamora, Wendy B. Faris, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MAGIC REALIST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term magic realist is used in the context of the following news items.
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In praise of the lover: Reflections on Vargas Llosa
... of The Feast of the Goat, with its graphic torture scenes, to the frank erotic episodes in that thoroughly magic realist novel Death in the Andes, ... «BusinessWorld Online Edition, Jul 15»
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Why writers treasure islands: Isolated, remote, defended - they're …
Rather than realist, this story is magic realist: as well as Lilliputians, Gulliver encounters talking horses (which influenced George Orwell's ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
3
Jaime Roque: From realism to optics
... Nestor Leynes in the 1970s. The movement evolved into a distinctive Philippine movement known as the Magic Realist school. "CHROMA". «Inquirer.net, Jul 15»
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Dustin Hoffman is wrong about 'small movies' and film being at its …
But then so did the opening sequence of "Death Becomes Her," which was actually an interesting and thought-provoking magic realist fable ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Shorts are long on local talent
High Tide, Kimberley West's charming Broome-set magic realist rom-com about a youngster Jamie (Taj Jamieson) who must choose between ... «The West Australian, Jul 15»
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Toni Morrison: 'The present is not good. All the hawks are screaming'
Morrison, who was born Chloe Wofford, in Loraine, hates labels. She has acquired a few: black, feminist, womanist, magic realist, modernist, ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
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In Full View
For its summer show, work by Wisconsin's preeminent magic realist, John Wilde, emerges from his wife Shirley Wilde's private collection. «Milwaukee Magazine, Jun 15»
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From Chandigarh to Chichester: The Rock Garden Sculptures of …
Like the characters in Salman Rushdie's magic realist novel Midnight's Children Nek Chand's personal history is tied to the brutal history of the ... «Culture24, Jun 15»
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Black America's Forgotten Film History
Williams' race movies made great use of magic realist flourishes in his early films; in The Blood of Jesus, undeniably his masterwork, the devil ... «The New Republic, Jun 15»
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Why the Audiences Who Walked Out of The Flick Made a Terrible …
... sideshows of nowhere suburbia more than the run of realistic/magic realist plays that are more the norm, based on my spotty theater-going. «Vanity Fair, Jun 15»

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