This course examines novels and stories whose basic reality is familiar up until the introduction of a magical element. The magic can take the form of a ghost, demon, talisman, physical transformation, 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, Neil Gaiman, Kelly Link, Gabriel García Márquez, Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Vladimir Nabokov, Orhan Pamuk, Franz Kafka, Salman Rushdie.

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 40

Prerequisites: None

Distribution Requirements: LL - Language and Literature

Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Not Offered

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