The kind of fiction by gabriel garcía márquez in which otherwise true-to-life events take place in a world of supernatural events is called

The kind of fiction by gabriel garcía márquez in which otherwise true-to-life events take place in a world of supernatural events is called magical realism.

Magical realism shows fantastical events in a realistic tone. Characters are given fantasy traits like levitation (a priest levitating after drinking a cup of hot chocolate in Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude). Writers do not create new worlds as Tolkien, but reveal the magic in this one (a girl doing the laundry and ascending to heaven in the imaginary town of Macondo)