We could list the 90 awards Padre has won at 265 International Film Festivals, or delve into the three-year production process, outline the simultaneously grotesque and realistic character development, the soothing portrayal of life's daily rituals, the jarring depiction of routine gone awry.
These books are notable for a deft manipulation of mood, swaying between the fantastical and the realistic, the grotesque and the matter-of-fact, the serious and the playful, a medley that seems of a piece with Carey's satirical yet forgiving overview.
Akhenaten insisted on ruthlessly realistic, even grotesque portraiture.
It's like what Flannery O'Connor said: what Northerners call grotesque, the Southerner will call realistic.
Arenas explains that his book is "a grotesque and satirical (and therefore realistic) portrait of an aging tyranny and the tyrant himself, the apotheosis of horror".
Thompson wrote that the women of the series have a "realistic physique and not some moe jailbait or grotesque bakunyu explosion".
Realistic fiction about the West tends to get called "gritty," whereas, say, in the South it's "gothic" or "grotesque".
Realistic observations of 20th-century life among middle-class professionals are interwoven with extraordinary incidents that partake of the macabre, the grotesque, and the wildly comic.
