| His iconography has a very distinctive trait and belongs as much to magic realism as to critical surrealism. |
| Nguyen uses magic realism to tell this story, mixing the surreal with the real, to effectively tell the disheartening tale. |
| He then adds in elements of autobiography, fragments of myth and history and a dose of magic realism. |
| English magic realism also has some affinity with the neo-Gothic. |
| But while the Latin American writer has used magic realism to give epic form to the unwritten history of his nation, his ambitions are more personal and private. |
| How parliaments make swine and vermin of men, who are destitute of morals and devoid of human attributes, is no more in the realm of magic, neither in that of magic realism. |
