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deadmong's "Seminal Texts of Magic Realism"

Just a few important texts of magic realism, and texts relating to the genre.
1. Dead Souls: A Novel
by Nikolai Gogol
  
2. The Trial
by Franz Kafka
  
3. Macunaima
by Mario de Andrade
  
4. Absalom, Absalom!: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
by William Faulkner
  
5. The Invention of Morel (New York Review Books Classics)
by Adolfo Bioy Casares
  
6. The President
by Miguel Angel Asturias
  
7. Borges: Collected Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
  
8. The Kingdom of This World: A Novel
by Alejo Carpentier
  
9. Pedro Paramo
by Juan Rulfo
  
10. The Sound of the Mountain
by Yasunari Kawabata
  
11. The Tin Drum (Vintage International)
by Gunter Grass
  
12.
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 The coming of Joachim Stiller (The Library of Netherlandic literature)
by Hubert Lampo
  
13. The Woman in the Dunes
by Kobo Abe
  
14. The Death of Artemio Cruz
by Carlos Fuentes
  
15. Hopscotch (Pantheon Modern Writers Series)
by Julio Cortazar
  
16. The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
  
17. One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
18. The Silent Cry: A Novel
by Kenzaburo Oe
  
19. Fifth Business (Penguin Classics)
by Robertson Davies
  
20. The Obscene Bird of Night (Verba Mundi)
by Jose Donoso
  
21. Invisible Cities (A Harvest/Hbj Book)
by Italo Calvino
  
22. Midnight's Children: A Novel
by Salman Rushdie
  
23. The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
  
24.
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 Love in the Time of Cholera (MTI) (Vintage International)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
25. Winter's Tale
by Mark Helprin
  
26. The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel
by Milan Kundera
  
27. The Sand Child
by Tahar Ben Jelloun
  
28. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
by Patrick Suskind
  
29. Norwegian Wood
by Haruki Murakami
  
30. Beloved
by Toni Morrison
  
31.
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 Like Water for Chocolate
by Laura Esquivel
  
32.
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 The Famished Road
by Ben Okri
  
33. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
by Louis de Bernieres
  
34. Nude Men
by Amanda Filipacchi
  
35. Blindness
by Saramago Jose
  
36. Chocolat
by Joanne Harris
  
37. Everything Is Illuminated
by Jonathan Safran Foer
  
38. The Fortress of Solitude
by Jonathan Lethem
  
39.
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 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
  
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Created by deadmong on Dec 28, 2008.