Defining Magical Realism

Magical Realism---
Magical Realism is a literary style or genre which incorporates fantasy and magic like features into a realistic plot line, adding more depth and making the borderline between reality and fantasy vague. Although this type of literature would seem like it would stand out, it does not, surprisingly; due to the fact that whenever it is used in literature, the narrator states the fact very smooth and casually. "Magic realism fuses (1) lyrical and, at times, fantastic writing with (2) an examination of the character of human existence and (3) an implicit criticism of society, particularly the elite."

Magic Realism was more often used in Latin American literature, where it was easier to express these fantasy like features with the almost 'magical' like natural land features in those countries.

The person who first used this term "Magical Realism" is a art historian, Franz Roh, in 1925. He created this term to express different characteristics than Expressionism, which is a term (apparently) to reflect what is "ecstatic in subject,  rhythmical, extravagant, dynamic, loud, hot, rough, and thick in
texture".Magic Realism, on the other hand, " he deemed sober in choice of subject, representational, severe, static, quiet, cold, smooth, and thin."