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Which 1963 novel by Elena Garro, written before 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', centres on a town where time loops during a civil war and was acknowledged by critics as genuinely preceding Gabriel Garcia Marquez's magical realist breakthrough?

'Recollections of Things to Come' tells the story of Ixtepec, a town suspended in a magical time loop during the Cristero War, and was praised by Paz for its originality.

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