Lists of Bests: deadmong's "Seminal Texts of Magic Realism" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/61451 Just a few important texts of magic realism, and texts relating to the genre. Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:17:11 GMT en-us 0 50 39 0 0 Dead Souls: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19104 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19104"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679776443.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Nikolai Gogol</div> The Trial http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24686 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/24686"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0805209999.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Franz Kafka</div> Macunaima http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5515820 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5515820"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4136DPWCJJL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mario de Andrade</div> Absalom, Absalom!: The Corrected Text (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18572 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18572"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679600728.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464843_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> The Invention of Morel (New York Review Books Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32488 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/32488"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1590170571.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Adolfo Bioy Casares</div> The President http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/998626 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/998626"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0881339512.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Miguel Angel Asturias</div> Borges: Collected Fictions http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3029 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3029"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140286802.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jorge Luis Borges</div> The Kingdom of This World: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/834154 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/834154"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374530114.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alejo Carpentier</div> Pedro Paramo http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3752050 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3752050"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/015VDFG114L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Juan Rulfo</div> The Sound of the Mountain http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65090 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65090"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679762647.01-A1FHV3WBFRTHQ1._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Yasunari Kawabata</div> The Tin Drum (Vintage International) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18691 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18691"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/067972575X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gunter Grass</div> The coming of Joachim Stiller (The Library of Netherlandic literature) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2710931 <div id="position">12</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hubert Lampo</div> The Woman in the Dunes http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18764 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18764"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679733787.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kobo Abe</div> The Death of Artemio Cruz http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5314520 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5314520"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51K1G6f8XLL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Carlos Fuentes</div> Hopscotch (Pantheon Modern Writers Series) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11221 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/11221"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0394752848.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Julio Cortazar</div> The Master and Margarita http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19003 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19003"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679760806.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43054833_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mikhail Bulgakov</div> One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1424007 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1424007"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/006112009X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> The Silent Cry: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3128781 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3128781"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/017XA4A9CWL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Kenzaburo Oe</div> Fifth Business (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/58393 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/58393"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141186151.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V59602568_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robertson Davies</div> The Obscene Bird of Night (Verba Mundi) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/584131 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/584131"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1567920462.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1132380031_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jose Donoso</div> Invisible Cities (A Harvest/Hbj Book) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4124 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4124"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156453800.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Italo Calvino</div> Midnight's Children: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972555 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/972555"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0812976533.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1136584770_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Salman Rushdie</div> The House of the Spirits http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/152563 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/152563"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553383809.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Isabel Allende</div> Love in the Time of Cholera (MTI) (Vintage International) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2766324 <div id="position">24</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> Winter's Tale http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/112513 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/112513"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0156031191.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Helprin</div> The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4533143 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4533143"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31CjI-Q-bvL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Milan Kundera</div> The Sand Child http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/449656 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/449656"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0801864402.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Tahar Ben Jelloun</div> Perfume: The Story of a Murderer http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9269 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9269"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375725849.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Patrick Suskind</div> Norwegian Wood http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9079 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9079"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375704027.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Haruki Murakami</div> Beloved http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28911 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28911"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400033411.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div> Like Water for Chocolate http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/93513 <div id="position">31</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Laura Esquivel</div> The Famished Road http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2817336 <div id="position">32</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ben Okri</div> Captain Corelli's Mandolin http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16472 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/16472"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0582461359.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louis de Bernieres</div> Nude Men http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1134035 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1134035"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140178929.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Amanda Filipacchi</div> Blindness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5144460 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5144460"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21jvBf1TOkL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saramago Jose</div> Chocolat http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3402 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3402"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/014100018X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joanne Harris</div> Everything Is Illuminated http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55232 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/55232"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141008253.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Safran Foer</div> The Fortress of Solitude http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9248 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9248"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375724885.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Lethem</div> The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3509876 <div id="position">39</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Junot Díaz</div>