The neon lights lit the cobblestones underneath the Flat Five’s awning, casting a surreal blue haze over the club’s entrance. Muted jazz poured onto the streets as I passed a dirty dachshund panhandling for change or leftovers. The snake at the door, Nick, stopped me on my way in and motioned at the duffel bag…
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Magical Realism by Zoe Harrington
Magical Realism, a term first coined by the art historian Franz Roh in 1925, describes a style of representation in art and literature which attempts “to portray the strange, the uncanny, the eerie, and the dreamlike – but not the fantastic – aspects of everyday reality.” It pervades the works of the political dissident author, Ma…