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===Authorial reticence=== ''Authorial reticence'' is the "deliberate withholding of information and explanations about the disconcerting fictitious world".<ref name=":1">Chanady, Amaryll Beatrice. 1985. ''Magical Realism and the Fantastic: Resolved versus Unresolved Antinomy''. New York: [[Garland Publishing, Inc.|Garland Publishing Inc.]]</ref>{{Rp|16}} The narrator is indifferent, a characteristic enhanced by this absence of explanation of fantastic events; the story proceeds with "logical precision" as if nothing extraordinary had taken place.<ref name="jstor.org">{{cite journal |last1=Flores |first1=Angel |title=Magical Realism in Spanish American Fiction |journal=Hispania |date=May 1955 |volume=38 |issue=2 |pages=187β192 |doi=10.2307/335812 |jstor=335812}}</ref><ref name=":1" />{{Rp|30}} Magical events are presented as ordinary occurrences; therefore, the reader accepts the marvelous as normal and common.<ref name="Bowers25-27">Bowers, Maggie A. 2004. ''Magic(al) Realism''. New York: Routledge. Print. pp. 25β27.</ref>
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