[Heteronym]

Jorge Luis Borges once said realism was a detour in the 3,000 years of literature, which started with Gilgamesh and The Illiad, and that that mistake would be corrected eventually. Fantasy (which I use to include sci-fi, horror and detective fiction) has triumphed in modern literature, altough Academe has had to change its name to magical realism to make it respectable.

- Franz Kafka (The Castle, The Metamorphosis, The Trial)
- Virgina Woolf (Orlando)
- James Joyce (Finnegan's Wake)
- Gabriel García Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude)
- José Saramago (Blindness, The Double, Death at Intervals)
- Halldor Laxness (Independent People)
- Juan Rulfo (Pedro Paramo)
- William Burroughs (Naked Lunch)
- Günter Grass (The Rat, The Tin Drum)
- Naguib Mahfouz (Arabian Nights and Days)
- Julio Cortazar (Blowup)
- Adolfo Bioy Casares (The Invention of Morel, A Plan for Escape)
- Mikhail Bulgakov (The Master and the Margarita)
- Dino Buzzati (The Seven Messengers)
- Italo Calvino (Cosmicomics)
- Giovanni Papini (The Blind Pilot)
- Thomas Pynchon (V., Against the Day, Gravity's Rainbow)
- Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse 5, Breakfast of Champions)
- Leopoldo Lugones (Strange Forces)
- Lord Dunsany (Tales of Wonder)
- Boris Vian (The Heart-snatcher)
- Max Ernst (A Week of Kindness)
- Horacio Quiroga (The Exiles)
- J.G. Ballard (The Atrocity Exhibition)
- Alan Moore (Voice of the Fire)
- Mário de Sá-Carneiro (The Great Shadow)
- Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)
- George Orwell (1984, Animal Farm)
- Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange)
- Jorge Luis Borges (The Aleph, Brodie's Report, The Book of Sand, Fictions)
- Imre Kertesz (The Pathseeker, Detective Story)
- Orhan Pamuk (My Name is Red)

Only a blind person wouldn't see all the elements of fantasy present in the greatest authors of the 20th century.