 Magical realism "relies upon the presentation of real, imagined or magical elements as if they were real.It relies upon realism, but only so that it can stretch what is acceptable as real to its limits".Literary theorist Kornelije Kvas wrote that "what is created in magic(al) realism works is a fictional world close to reality, marked by a strong presence of the unusual and the fantastic, in order to pint out, among other things, the contradictions and shortcomings of society.