Magic Realism appeared as a critical term for the arts and it later extended to literature. The term was first used by the German critic Franz Roh in 1925 to characterize a group of Post-Expressionist painters. Franz Roh described it as a form in which "our real world re-emerges before our...

Stendhal between Romanticism and Realism Stendhal is one of the major writers of the nineteenth century and an important innovator of the novel as a literary genre. His unique style has been many times redefined by the critics, in search of an appropriate tag. Nevertheless, Stendhal's origina...

Jorge Amadoi¿½s i¿½Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamoni¿½ is a tale of occurrences within several months in the township if Ilhi¿½us, which is a province of the larger city of Bahai, situated in the northern Brazil. The foreword of the Portuguese translation of the book starts out with the first ...