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In Leal's view, magical realism has a tropical ( or llano or desert ) context, but he says that the fiction of Julio Cortázar contains only " the fantastic ," not magical realism.

In Leal's view, " In fantastic literature — in Borges, for example — the writer creates new worlds, perhaps new planets.

By contrast, writers like García Márquez, who use magical realism, don't create new worlds, but suggest the magical in our world.

" Even Cortázar's short story " Casa Tomada ," about a brother and sister whose house is taken over by someone or something mysterious, for Leal is an example of the fantastic and not magical realism.