MAGIC REALISM IN KEVIN BROCKMEIER’S THINGS THAT FALL FROM THE SKY

The aim of this article is to study Kevin Brockmeier’s Things that Fall from the Sky (2002) from Magic Realist viewpoint. Things that fall from the Sky is a short story which is selected from a short story collection titled Things that Fall from the Sky. Magic Realism is a literary movement that tries to give real states to the world of mind. The movement originated in the fiction writings of Latin American writers describes the world of reality and challenges the traditional perceptions of the ordered world which underpins realist fictions pretentions to reproduce reality in literature. In Postmodernism, skepticism and doubt are the tools of writers. Postmodern authors do not put force on people to accept the truth, but readers are free to accept the vision of truth which they believe.