A 1955 Ángel Flores (“AN-hel FLOR-ez”) essay argues that a literary style named for this adjective is of Hispanic origin. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this adjective that exemplifies a style of Latin American “realism” which frequently depicts supernatural events in works the fiction of Gabriel García Márquez.
ANSWER: magical realism [or magic realism; or realismo mágico]
[10m] Among the precursors to magical realism cited by Flores is this German author of the 1817 story “The Sandman,” in which Nathanael falls in love with an automaton.
ANSWER: E. T. A. Hoffmann [or Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann or Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann]
[10h] Flores’s essay notably makes no mention of this Cuban author’s 1949 novel The Kingdom of This World, despite its preface’s discussion of the similar concept of “the marvelous real.”
ANSWER: Alejo Carpentier (“ah-LAY-ho car-PEN-tee-ay”) [or Alejo Carpentier y Valmont]
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