Professor Elisabeth Krimmer, of the University of California Davis, praised von Droste-Hülshoff's hallucinatory realism, saying that "the transition to the dream world is even more compelling because it is preceded by a detailed description of the natural environment.
"[1] In 1983, in his paper Halluzinatorischer Realismus (page 183), Burkhardt Lindner defined hallucinatory realism as the attempt to make the bygone present with a documentary factuality and at an Aesthetic enhancement of the reality.
[4] Goethe University Frankfurt professor Burkhardt Lindner discussed it in the paper "Hallucinatory Realism: Peter Weiss' Aesthetics of Resistance, Notebooks, and the Death Zones of Art" (New German Critique, 1983).
[8] In a review by Joy Press of the novel My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey, hallucinatory realism is used to describe how the book manages to make imaginary universes feel concrete and believable.
[10] The term hallucinatory realism has also been used by different critics to describe works by the writers Peter Weiss[11] and Tomi Ungerer,[12] Pasolini's film The Gospel According to St Matthew,[13] and the novel Paradise Alley by Kevin Baker.