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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic
Aha! Please consider my post edited like this, jadis:-
"I read that book way back when "magic realism" was first becoming a popular term to apply to various works of Latin American literature. In England, that began with the paperback translation of "100 years", (1970). I probably read the book in about 1975."
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Thanks! All I knew is that in an autobiographical essay from 1979, Angela Carter writes about being raised by a larger-than-life yarn-spinning Yorkshire matriarch of a grandmother, and makes a humorous reference to the "family talent for magical realism" - so I gathered the term must have been well entrenched by the late 1970s, especially after Carter's own The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972) and The Passion of New Eve (1977). Thanks very much for this more precise information.