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Originally Posted by sjfan
Even in the 1990s our high school English teachers would bend themselves into knots attempting to make up reasons why 1984 and A Brave New World aren't science fiction and The Picture of Dorian Gray and 100 Years of Solitude (which features an actual flying carpet) aren't fantasy.
Because those are good books, and thus clearly couldn't be in those genres.
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I agree with you on 1984, Brave New World and Dorian Gray.
I haven't read 100 Years of Solitude, but assuming it's like the Gabriel García Márquez I have read (No One Writes To The Colonel, Leaf Storm and Chronicle Of A Death Foretold), I wouldn't consider that fantasy. It's
magical realism and it's a different thing. The supernatural events are incidental to the story and are usually a sort of metaphor.