This course examines novels and stories whose basic reality is familiar up until the introduction of a magical element: a ghost, a demon, a talisman, a physical transformation, a miraculous transition in space or time. The revelation of a second plane of existence calls into question all assumptions about what one is accustomed to call reality.

Readings will be drawn from the works of following authors: Jorge Luis Borges, Mikhail Bulgakov, Italo Calvino, Julio Cortázar, Laura Esquivel, Kelly Link, Gabriel García Márquez, Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Vladimir Nabokov, Franz Kafka, Salman Rushdie.

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 40

Prerequisites: None

Distribution Requirements: LL - Language and Literature

Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Fall

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