 The magic realist writer with difficulty must reach a balance between saleability and intellectual integrity.Wendy Faris, talking about magic realism as a contemporary phenomenon that leaves modernism for postmodernism, says, "Magic realist fictions do seem more youthful and popular than their modernist predecessors, in that they often (though not always) cater with unidirectional story lines to our basic desire to hear what happens next.Thus they may be more clearly designed for the entertainment of readers."