Couldn't we give "magic realism" a rest? It obfuscates García Márquez's European and medieval inspirations and hidden links to works as diverse as 19th century phantasmal writing, Proust ...
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 ...