The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
by Angela Carter · 1972
Magical Realism · ranked #16 in category
Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman
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Magical realism treats the extraordinary as ordinary — in these novels, the miraculous and the mundane share a page without comment. Born in Latin America, the mode now belongs to world literature.
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