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Oh chill out buddy, #1, you're being a jerk. #2, you're wrong, Borges had more to do with it, but really it was there long before them anyway.

He isn't responsible for his imitators!

Disagree, but upvoted.

Magical realism in general and Garcia Marquez in particular are more critically problematic than many realize.

I don't think this thread should gloss over that entirely, even if the tone of objection is unlovely.

Agree that this thread should not gloss over the gigabytes of rubbish written by undergrads in response to "magical realism", and what's worse, the person-years wasted by a devotion to the arts inspired by a combination of a childish attraction to this sort of stuff and the spurious academic credentials accorded to it.

Nah, you're both wrong, and what's worse, you're holding strawmans. Not the time and place for this, my dudes.

Yup. Speaking ill of the dead is awful.