Evgenia Barsheva

Azure Evgenia Barsheva

This is the annual anthology of works from Volume 4 of AZURE: A Journal of Literary Thought, an online quarterly literary magazine published by Lazuli Literary Group. These works reflect our conception of a genre of our imagining, which we call "otherworld realism." Each work in AZURE is accompanied by a customized illustration.




otherworld realism

[uhth -er-wurld] [ree-uh-liz-uh m]

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noun

a style of literature devoted to intellectual and imaginative pursuits that point towards a potential, evolved reality.a genre that represents the known, often mundane world in an elevated or defamiliarising way through the skillful use of linguistic craft, innovative language, or experimental structure; contrast with magical realism, which integrates choice plot elements into a conventionally accepted reality.art and literature that evokes the space before clarity in which one must navigate the logic of intuition and instinct, alongside the duplicity of fact.an approach illuminating a psychic space of process; a space of ambiguity, silence, and internal struggle.the pre-dawn.




Word Origin

2017; coined by Lazuli Literary Group; first appearing in AZURE: A Journal of Literary Thought, Volume One.