Not really, no.

no. skinny legs and all is technically magical realism and it's not that great.

It's a related, but separate genre that some people mistakenly assume is "literary" fantasy.

So are books just movies for snobs, or what?

Blame the neckbeards who made the word fantasy be associated to scantly-clad elvish babes attached to boring and cliched plots.

The point of magical realism is to take the reader's expectations of the real world and subvert them; the subversion is as much the point as the fantastic elements. Fantasy, on the other hand, is about propelling the reader into a different world entirely. So, to answer your question, no and fuck off.

correct me if I'm wrong, but magical realism strikes me as kind of like drama + some fantasy mixed in at certain points

>>515442
can someone please enlighten me as to what a ''neckbeard'' is???

>>515432

>scantly-clad elvish babes

>boring and cliched plots

Either you're not talking about LOTR, or you've never read it

>>515442

This.

Lord of the Rings = Fantasy.
One Hundred Years of Solitude = Magical Realism.

>>515477

literally: someone with a beard that goes down to their neck, since they make little or no effort to maintain it

figuratively: a nerd with the above physical trait, who tends to be into anime or other nerdy interests (literature wise, probably Tolkein / sci-fi / fantasy), tends to take everything too literally, is kind of pretentious and thinks they're a genius even though they lack social intelligence and often aren't even that smart in terms of logical thinking

Sounds like a huge unfair stereotype, but I swear, I actually have met someone like this, and his beard really is like that, although he recently shaved it all off

he's a friend of my friend and I ended up making a website for the two of them and it was a horrible mistake because this guy got on my fucking nerves. He was all like "ummm I'm disappointed we missed the deadline" in some email, implying A) there was ever a deadline set, and B) he's somehow involved in the site building which he wasn't

As you can tell, neckbeards are real, and I dislike them

>>515495
THANK YOU. I know longer have to lurk in the darkness of ignorance. And yes, Neckbeards are real an old ex-friend of mine w/ a neck-beard who is a real nerd about ''the beat generation'' and touts its glory endlessly. Also, he moved to broklyn for 3 months until his parents money ran out and came back a coke head obsessed with designer sneakers. facepalm.jpg

>>515495

>literally: someone with a beard that goes down to their neck, since they make little or no effort to maintain it

Wrong. Literally, a neckbeard is a beard that is only on the neck/lower jaw.

See pic.

>>515520
we were talking about the neckbeard persona which accompanies the hairstyle frequently i suppose.

>>515495
So /lit/ then.

>>515520
It's like his head emerges from a puffy brown cloud.

>>515495
I'd actually say that it's a beard that grows on someone's neck that they don't bother to shave. However, they haven't managed to have it grow on their cheeks or most of their chin, so they look gross. Otherwise, spot on assessment.

>>515547

ah, I could be wrong then. I don't know the exact logistics of how a neckbeard looks.

in terms of my friend's neckbeard friend, he had it growing on his face but it just also extended all over his neck because he made no effort to even shave his neck

magic realism is often frequently used as a form of characterisation rather than as a narrative device - ie it shows a dreamer, a childlike view of the world etc.

When used to explain the unexplained in the plot, it sucks.

>>515495 thinks they're a genius even though they lack social intelligence

It's not like being social is all that necessary for being a genius.

>>515495
No, it's a beard that exists only on the neck, whether as a result of intentional facial shaving (the mullet of beards) or deficient genes. If the beard occupies the face as well, it's still a glorious fullbeard, of the overgrown subcategory.

>>515628
>deficient genes

what are ye implyin there, pal?

>>515646
Implying that any member of what might be termed a "glorious master race" would be able to grow a full beard. Women and children included.

The most characteristic quality of magical realism is the seamless integration of seemingly strange things to reader into the lives of the otherwise "normal" characters. Once you read a work that utilizes it well, you will learn to recognize its signatures often.

Here are some key recommendations if you enjoy magical realism. Most of these authors employ the method frequently in their works, so check out their other works as well. I've only listed popular ones.

Isabel Allende - The House of the Spirits
Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children, Shame, The Jaguar Smile, The Satanic Verses, Shalimar the Clown
Gabriel García Márquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera
Laura Esquivel - Like Water for Chocolate
Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Sputnik Sweetheart
Yann Martel - Life of Pi
Toni Morrison - Beloved
V.S. Naipaul - The Enigma of Arrival

magical realism is a term used by snobs, no reason to get bogged down with semantics

Go ask /tg/ for a better description of a neckbeard.

>>515663

Oddly enough, the same could be said of neckbeards.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_realism

here you go op, wikipedia is probably the best resource on the internet
there's pages for every style of writing and references to cross-styles.. pretty much everything has been labeled so there's no need to use any kind of human sensibility, and its cheaper than books!

Hmm, I've always wondered, is there a French author known for magical realism? I've always loved Murakami, and it would be great to find someone sort of like him in French.

Magical Realism was a valid genre back when our parents were 3. Now, Bolano and Saramago are where it is at.

>>515735
Magical Realism was never a genre, its a term used to lump together seemly similar artists

>>515733
Bump for possible answer. ^^