 The novelists of the dictator novel genre combined narrative strategies of both modern and postmodern writing . Postmodern techniques , constructed largely in the late 1960s and 1970s , included use of interior monologues , radically stream @-@ of @-@ consciousness narrative , fragmentation , varying narrative points of view , neologisms , innovative narrative strategies , and frequent lack of causality . Alejo Carpentier , a Boom writer and contributor to the dictator novel genre pioneered what came to be known as magical realism , although the use of this technique is not necessarily a prerequisite of the dictator novel , as there are many that do not utilize magical realism . 
