His body of essays, poems, and stories,  or, as he called them, ficciones pioneered the literary style of  “lo real maravilloso,” known in English as Magical Realism— and each was just a few pages long.
Njegov opus eseja, pjesama i priča, ili, kako ih je on nazivao, ficciones, otvorio je put književnom stilu "lo real maravilloso", poznatom kao magični realizam - i svako djelo je bilo dugo samo nekoliko stranica.