OT but tangential any magical realism authors to read? So far, I got Marquez, Jorge Louis Borges and Murakami. And preferably recommendation should be good to provide philosophical consolation to a code monkey worker-bee in the capitalist society.
Very good recommendation. I second it!
One of the very best books of the century, by an often underappreciated author. When I first read it I didn't know Bulgakov and was amazed that such an interesting and beautiful novel could exist.
And yes, it is generally associated with magical realism as far as I know, although more loosely.
- Adolfo Bioy Casares, a friend of Borges' and another great argentine writer. See Diary of the War of the Pig
- Italo Calvino, an Italian writer whose writings you may find of interest in a smiliar (although more wondrous) vein