Isabel Allende, a Chilean author famous for many Latin American fiction works, incorporated magico realismo, or magic realism, into her first novel, The House of the Spirits. Magic realism is described as the interest of displaying a common or daily scene in a story, but implementing a strangeness or unnatural aspect or event. In order to stay within the framework of magico realismo, the author must maintain the fact that the characters in the story …showed first 75 words of 2639 total…

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